Complexity Management

• Unterscheiden von Komplexität und Kompliziert.
• Quellen von Komplexität und Auswirkungen in Unternehmen.
• Das Unternehmen als Komplexes System.
• VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous), Wicked Problems und Unforeseeable Uncertainty.
• Komplexe Adaptive Systeme und deren Eigenschaften.
• Strategien zum Umgang mit Komplexität in Unternehmen.
• Herausforderungen beim Management komplexer Systeme.
• Implementierung eines komplexen Projektes am Beispiel eines konzernweiten Kooperationssystems.

Corporate Change

• Grundlagen des Change Managements.
• Zusammenhang zwischen Wandel im Unternehmensumfeld und Wandel im Unternehmen.
• Instrumente des Change Managements.
• Theorien der Organisation in der Unternehmensentwicklung.
• Prozesse, Phasen und kritische Erfolgsfaktoren in der Organisationsentwicklung.
• Gesamtkonzept einer lernenden Organisation.
• Inhaltliche strategische Planung eines Change Prozesses.
• Abstimmung von Kundennutzen und Entwicklung des Ökosystems.

Corporate Entrepreneurship

• Bausteine des Corporate Entrepreneurship (Definition, Allgemeine Rahmenbedingungen, Prozess und Formen des Corporate Entrepreneurship).
• Unterschiede zwischen Corporate Entrepreneurship und Startup-Entrepreneurship.
• Aufbau einer Corporate Entrepreneurship-Organisation (Human Ressource Management, die Persönlichkeit des Unternehmers, Motivation für unternehmerisches Handeln, Unternehmensstrategie und Unternehmertum, die Elemente und die Entwicklung einer Kultur des Unternehmertums).

Die Studienreise vertieft die Inhalte des Semesters in einem extrem wachstumsorientierten Umfeld und erläutert an Beispielen aus der Unternehmenswelt:

• Praktische Einblicke in ein internationales Umfeld.
• Internationalisierung erfahren und mit Unternehmern diskutieren.
• Sinn und Zweck von Internationalisierungsstrategien verstehen und mit Investoren diskutieren. Beispiele für bisherige Studienreisen: USA, China, Skandinavien.
• Workshops an Universitäten, Gespräche mit Investoren, Unternehmern und Policy Makern.
• Praktische Umsetzung von Internationalisierungsstrategien.
• Erklären von landesspezifischen Besonderheiten.
• How to do Business in der jeweiligen Destination.

In the context of the digital economy, design thinking and experience design are taught and applied as the high road to innovation. The course introduces students to these approaches and examines them from the perspective of state-of-the-art cultural and social research. This means that we will bring techniques such as design personas and design mapping into dialogue with actor-network theory, ethnographic methods, and critical cartography. We will thereby discuss the possibility of not only a human-centered, but also an ecologically sustainable form of design thinking and experience design. Practically, the students will learn to combine scholarly with design approaches: we will scientifically consolidate design thinking and experience design, as well as creatively open up the traditional research process.

• Discussions of theoretical and methodological texts
• Practices of approaches from design and ethnography
• Creation of a dossier with textual and visual exercises
• Ongoing and final presentations of the assignments

• Critical examination of design thinking and experience design
• Introduction into the sociology of actor-network theory
• Application of design personas and design mapping
• Practice of methods from ethnography and cartography

Parts of assessment

• Attendance and active participation (25%)
• Presentations of individual assignments (25%)
• Dossier of textual and visual exercises (50%)

80% mandatory presence

Grading

• Architektonischer/ städtebaulicher Entwurf mit konkreter Aufgabenstellung aus dem Themenfeld Landschaft im Kontext der relevanten für die Umsetzung der Aufgabe wichtigen Parameter.
• Integrierende Themen werden in der Entwurfsaufgabe bearbeitet und durch Fachdozierende aus dem Themengebiet direkt begleitet.
• Prozessorientierte Vorgehensweise in der Analyse der Aufgabe und der Entwicklung von zukunftsweisenden Konzepten.
• Basiswissen zu den Wechselwirkungen zwischen Menschen und ihrer Umgebung.
• Grundlegende Kenntnisse in Planung und Gestaltung.
• Die Vertiefung des in den Projektstudios behandelten Lerninhaltes wird durch eine Verbindung in die regionale Praxis erarbeitet.
• Anhand von Fallbeispielen sollen die Lerninhalte überprüft, vertieft und weiterentwickelt werden.

Landschaft ist ein vom Menschen als solches wahrgenommenes Gebiet, dessen Charakter das Ergebnis des Wirkens und Zusammenwirkens natürlicher und/oder anthropogener Faktoren ist .
Landschaft ist sowohl Ausdruck als auch Prägung von Kultur.
Landschaft ist Kollektivgut und Ressource, die wir sorgfältig nutzen und gestalten, um Lebensqualitäten aufzuwerten.

Blockunterricht mit Projektstudio
Mögliche Methoden:
angeleitetes Praktikum Experiment, Modell, Plan, Projektarbeit, Recherche, Reflexion, Skizze, Übung, Visualisierung, Diskurs, Exzerpieren, Foto, Zeichnung.

Modulnote = Lehrveranstaltungsnote, die ermittelt wird aus:
Projektentwürfe, Präsentation mit Kritik, Mitarbeit im Unterricht; Integrationsarbeit; Portfolio; 75% Anwesenheitspflicht, prüfungsimmanent

To support the holistic educational aim of artistic and technically skilled graduates, this report unites technical disciplines embedded in the curriculum into a compulsory document/ report.
It is coordinated with the lecturers of the technical subjects that are supporting it by iterative consultations. Intensive research, experiments on material or processing level, simulations, cooperation with industries, innovative interpretation of taught content and tools, are just some examples how students prove their technical skills applied to the design process of their individual project.

exercises, research, writing, case study

Paper, Portfolio, exercises, minimum 70% mandatory presence, continuous assessment

Digital Innovation covers the fundamentals of digital innovation and the development and implementation of novel and original solutions in which the innovation process, its outcomes, or the ensuing organisational and social transformation is embodied in or enabled by digital technologies. Digital Innovation is one of the core topics of the degree programme, so the course also provides a basis on which students can choose their electives. The course covers six primary topics:

• Fundamental properties of digital technologies and digital innovation
• Organising for digital innovation
• Digital platforms and ecosystems
• Digital innovation and capital creation
• Digital business models
• Digital entrepreneurship

• The module involves interactive lectures with exercises to integrate theoretical knowledge with practical design and analysis skills.
• Case studies are used to discuss the course contents. Contemporary scientific publications from Information Systems and Management are discussed in class.

After successful completion of the course, students will

Professional competence
• understand the basics of the fundamentals of digital innovation and the development and implementation
of novel and original solutions that are relevant to the field of information systems
• understand the main concepts, theories, and methods related to digital innovation

Methodological competence
• be able to apply the understanding and the methods into their projects or illustrative cases
• be able to analyse the role of digital technologies in existing business models
• be able to develop business models that consider options created through digital technologies

Social competence
• be able to collaborate and work in teams
• support each other during the learning process

Personal competence
• critically reflect on technological outcomes

Written exam (90min)

Besteuerung natürlicher Personen in Liechtenstein, Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz

• Steuersysteme
• Steuerrecht
• Rechtsprechung
• Verwaltungspraxis
• Tax Compliance
• Fallbeispiele und Fallstudien (national/inbound/outbound)

Digital Humanities stands at the intersection between digital technology and social action – between computing and humanities. Besides enabling digital innovation, digital technology has fundamentally changed the way we see the world, work, and socialise. We are increasingly challenged to make sense of data and information, and turn them into things we can use for different goals. On the other hand, we also need to adjust ourselves in order to collaborate with each other through digital technology – and sometimes even with digital technology itself. How far should we go? How do we find a balance? This course is primarily concerned with understanding different and sometimes contradicting views on the relationship between digital technology and social action. The course covers five primary topics:

• Introduction to digital humanities
• The computational turn
• Favourable views on digitisation and digitalisation
• Critical views on digitisation and digitalisation
• Examples of digital humanities projects

• The module involves interactive lectures with exercises to integrate theoretical knowledge with critical analysis skills.
• Case studies are used to discuss the course contents.
• Recent scientific publications from Information Systems and Digital Humanities are discussed in class.

After successful completion of the course, students will

Professional competence
• understand the basic concepts and underlying theories related to digital humanities
• understand different and sometimes contradicting views on the relationship between digital technology
and social actions

Methodological competence
• be able to analyse everyday examples based on these initial understandings

Social competence
• be able to collaborate in teams and support each other during the learning process

Personal competence
• be able to reflect on their own relationship with digital technology

Written exam (60min)

In Digital Business, students collaborate with small and medium-sized companies to develop new business models, open new markets, and innovate with existing products and services, so students learn to recognise, understand, develop, and exploit digital innovations. The course topics change from semester to semester, but the course usually addresses seven grand themes:

• Designing digital business strategy
• Digital entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship
• Opportunity recognition
• Business model innovation
• Value creation and cocreation
• Digital transformation
• Project management

• The course involves interactive seminars with workshops and regular presentations.
• The faculty and a jury of representatives from regional companies evaluate the students’ solutions in terms of innovativeness and usefulness and provide them with feedback and advice.

After successful completion of the course, students will

Professional competence
• understand the complex nature of digitalisation in small and medium-sized enterprises as well as start-up
ventures
• understand the entrepreneurial aspects in digital business: from opportunity recognition to designing digital strategy and business model and convincing potential stakeholders

Methodological competence
• be able to develop feasible solutions to their identified issues and evaluate them using appropriate methods

Social competence
• be able to collaborate in teams and with external partners
• be able to outline a project plan to implement their ideas and complete the project under time pressure

Personal competence
• demonstrate readiness to innovate and to view an idea, a problem, or a solution from several different
angles
• be able to articulate their ideas clearly in an elevator pitch, in order to persuade potential collaborators
and sponsors of the values of their ideas

Technological competence
• be able to identify the appropriate technologies to support digital business solutions

Seminar paper, presentations, project results; attendance is mandatory (80%)