TY - GEN A1 - Abdulghani, Tamer A1 - Winkler, Herwig A1 - Abdelkafi, Nizar A1 - Lange, Hans-Rüdiger T1 - Paving the Green Path: a Maturity Model for Digital Decarbonization T2 - Procedia CIRP N2 - Digital transformation has been employed across all industries to enhance business operations. Its potential lies in optimising existing business models and creating innovative ones based on various technologies, making them fit for the future by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and fulfilling future decarbonization goals. In order to ensure a successful digital transformation towards decarbonization, managers have to assess the capabilities of their organisation and competently oversee their journey by defining a clear path employing digital maturity models. For this purpose, the analysis focused on published literature concerning digital maturity models developed to guide organisations in navigating their digital transformation journey. A systematic literature review of 36 selected digital maturity models is presented in this paper. These models overlook decarbonisation measures and focus solely on demonstrating digital capabilities, efficiency and profit growth. Therefore, a maturity model for digital decarbonization encompassing dimensions of decarbonization goals, business model innovation, customers and suppliers, products and services, employees, collaboration, processes and activities, data, and IT-infrastructure, -security and -technology has been developed. It assists organisations in reducing their carbon footprint by strategically and effectively leveraging digital technologies. The proposed model has five maturity levels: assess and align, engage and refine, innovate and collaborate, optimize and personalize, and transform and decarbonize. This paper aims to assess the current level of digital decarbonization and determine the position of the organizations. Additionally, it endeavours to identify the specific opportunities for growth that digitalization presents, thereby enabling the creation of a new digital carbon-free existence. KW - Maturity Model KW - Digital Decarbonization KW - Digital Transformation KW - Review Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2024.10.201 SN - 2212-8271 VL - 130 SP - 1020 EP - 1027 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Lamann, Arian A1 - Winkler, Herwig A1 - Lange, Hans-Rüdiger A1 - Abdelkafi, Nizar T1 - Identification and analysis of barriers in co-innovation projects in the manufacturing and energy industry T2 - Procedia CIRP N2 - Innovation is critical to a company’s growth in today’s competitive environment. Co-innovation projects, where companies pool resources, represent a promising way to achieve this goal. This study, based on a focus group of industry experts from the manufacturing and energy sectors, aims to identify the challenges of such collaborations and propose suitable solutions. The study relies on the innovation phase model and identifies several obstacles such as short technology lifecycles, data management overload, and organizational shortcomings in co-innovation projects. Effective management, communication and intellectual property (IP) can be a significant challenge in co-innovation projects, particularly due to uncertainties surrounding the release of sensitive data and inadequate contractual support. Uncoordinated communication can also result in project delays or failure. Furthermore, the absence of access protocols for online applications presents risks such as unauthorized access and document change tracking issues, further complicating complex engineering projects. Despite the availability of digital providers, many of them still require physical platforms for efficient innovation projects due to insufficient support for e.g., data management and caused by communication limitations. In conclusion, this study emphasizes the urgent need for research on co-innovation projects and recommends a collaborative framework to address the complexities triggered by this kind of projects and increase collaboration effectiveness. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2024.10.248 SN - 2212-8271 VL - 130 (2024) SP - 1334 EP - 1339 PB - Elsevier BV ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Winkler, Herwig A1 - Tomenendal, Matthias A1 - Abdelkafi, Nizar A1 - Lange, Hans-Rüdiger ED - Zhang, Michael T1 - Managing the coal exit in a mining region - Strategic landscape design and niche management for a sustainable socio-technical regime in Lusatia T2 - Strategic management and sustainability transitions - Theory and Practice N2 - In the course of the European Green Deal, which defines the goal of “no net emissions of greenhouse gases in 2050” (European Commission, 2019, p. 2) and a supply of “clean, affordable and secure energy” (p. 3), the European energy sector needs a rapid and significant sustainability transition. In Germany, the federal government has accordingly decided to phase out energy production from lignite-fired power plants by 2038 at the latest. Most affected regional ecosystems in Germany are the Lusatia mining region (Lausitzer Revier), the Rhenish mining region (Rheinisches Revier) and the Middle German mining region (Mitteldeutsches Revier). In these regions, fundamental sustainability transitions have to take place. Y1 - 2024 SN - 9781003329909 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003329909-7 SP - 83 EP - 118 PB - Routledge CY - New York ET - 1st Edition ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Berger, Wolfram A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan A1 - Titze, Mirko A1 - Lange, Hans-Rüdiger T1 - Empirische Analyse und Konzepterarbeitung eines Entrepreneurship-Indikators Lausitz. Gutachten im Auftrag der Innovationsregion Lausitz GmbH Y1 - 2018 UR - https://www.b-tu.de/fg-vwl-mikro/publikationen/jan-schnellenbach#c226800 CY - Cottbus ER -