Prof. Dr. Markus Schief

• Since 2020: Professor Digital Business Management at Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Mannheim
• 2017 – 2020: Head of SAP Unit, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Vienna
• 2013 – 2017: SAP Project Officer, United Nations Secretariat, New York
• 2017: Executive Master of Public Administration, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
• 2013: Dr. rer. pol. in Information Systems. PhD thesis: „Business Models in the Software Industry: The Impact on Firm and M&A Performance“, Technische Universität, Darmstadt
• 2009: Master of Business Administration, University of West Florida, Pensacola
• 2005: Diplom-Betriebswirt (DHBW), Mannheim
• 2002 – 2013: Researcher, Project Lead, and Quality Specialist, SAP SE, Walldorf

• Digital Business Models
• Value Creation in the Digital Economy
• Business Process Management
• Software Project Management
• Software Applications / ERP Systems
• Essentials of Data Management
• Data Management Case Studies (Python)
• Communication Systems
• Simulation Games

Focus Areas

• Digital Business Models
• Software Industry
• Business Simulation and Serious Games
• Firm and M&A Performance

Awards

• McKinsey Business Technology Award 2013 (third place)
• Best Paper Award: European Conference on Information Systems and Evaluation 2011

Books

• Schief, Markus: Business Models in the Software Industry - The Impact on Firm and M&A Performance. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden, 2013.

Studies

• Pussep, Anton; Schief, Markus; Weiblen, Tobias; Leimbach, Timo; Peltonen, Juhan; Rönkkö, Mikko; Buxmann, Peter: Results of the German Software Industry Survey 2013. Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2013.
• Pussep, Anton; Schief, Markus; Buxmann, Peter: Results of the German Software Industry Survey 2012. Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2012.

Journals

• Schief, Markus; Buxmann, Peter; Schiereck, Dirk: Mergers and Acquisitions in the Software Industry - Research Results in the Area of Success Determinants. Business & Information Systems Engineering Journal, 5 (6), pp. 421-431, 2013.
• Caspar, Joachim; Di Valentin, Christina; Maier, Sebastian; Mayer, Dirk; Pussep, Anton; Schief, Markus: Vom Geschäftsmodell zum Geschäftsprozess und zurück - Konfiguration, Analyse, Transformation, Controlling. Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik Journal, 50 (292), pp. 13-22, 2013.
• Van Putten, Bart-Jan; Schief, Markus: The Relation Between Dynamic Business Models and Business Cases. In: Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, 15 (1) pp. 138-148, 2012.
• Schief, Markus; Kuhn, Christian; Roesch, Philipp; Stoitsev, Todor: Enabling Business Process Integration of IoT-Events to the Benefit of Sustainable Logistics. In: Journal of System and Management Sciences, 1 (2) pp. 85-104, 2011.

Conference Proceedings

• Schief, Markus; Pussep, Anton: Software Business Model Determinants of Performance – Insights from Germany. In: European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Utrecht, 2013.
• Schief, Markus; Pussep, Anton; Buxmann, Peter: The Impact of Software Business Model Characteristics on Firm Performance. In: International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB), Berlin. Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 2013.
• Bonakdar, Amir; Weiblen, Tobias; Schief, Markus; Di Valentin, Christina; Pussep, Anton; Zeissner, Anna-Maria: Transformative Influence of Business Processes on the Business Model: Classifying the State of the Practice in the Software Industry. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii, 2013.
• Schief, Markus; Pussep, Anton; Buxmann, Peter: Performance of Business Models: Empirical Insights from the Software Industry. In: Pacific Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Hochiminh City, 2012.
• Schief, Markus; Bonakdar, Amir; Weiblen, Tobias: Transforming Software Business Models into Business Processes. In: International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Wroclaw, 2012.
• Pussep, Anton; Schief, Markus; Schmidt, Benedikt; Friedrichs, Florian; Buxmann, Peter: Topics in Software Industry Transformation Research: A Topic Analysis of Major IS Conferences. In: International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB), Cambridge. Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 2012.
• Schief, Markus; Pussep, Anton; Buxmann, Peter: Performance of Business Models: Empirical Insights from the Software Industry. In: European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Barcelona, 2012.
• Pussep, Anton; Schief, Markus; Widjaja, Thomas: The Software Value Chain: Methods for Construction and Their Application. In: European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Barcelona, 2012.
• Di Valentin, Christina; Weiblen, Tobias; Pussep, Anton; Schief, Markus; Emrich, Andreas; Werth, Dirk: Measuring Business Model Transformation. In: European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS), München, 2012.
• Schief, Markus; Buxmann, Peter: Business Models in the Software Industry. In: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii, 2012.
• Burkhart, Thomas; Wolter, Stephan; Schief, Markus; Krumeich, Julian; Di Valentin, Christina; Werth, Dirk; Loos, Peter; Vanderhaeghen, Dominik: A Comprehensive Approach Towards the Structural Description of Business Models. In: International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES), Addis Ababa, 2012.
• Van Putten, Bart-Jan; Schief, Markus: The Relation Between Dynamic Business Models and Business Cases. In: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ECIME), Como, 2011.
• Pussep, Anton; Schief, Markus; Widjaja, Thomas; Buxmann, Peter; Wolf, Christian Michael: The Software Value Chain as an Analytical Framework for the Software Industry and Its Exemplary Application for Vertical Integration Measurement. In: American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Detroit, 2011.
• Novelli, Francesco; Schief, Markus; Tulusan, Johannes: Solution Provider Networks. In: 13th International Conference on Modern Information Technology in the Innovation Processes of industrial enterprises, Trondheim, 2011.
• Schief, Markus; Kuhn, Christian; Rösch, Philipp; Stoitsev, Todor: Enabling Business Process Integration of IoT-Events to the Benefit of Sustainable Logistics. In: 1st International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Service Science (LISS), Peking, 2011.
• Schief, Markus; Kuhn, Christian; Zimmermann, Birgit; Rösch, Philipp; Waterfeld, Walter; Schimmelpfennig, Jens; Mayer, Dirk; Maus, Heiko; Eichler, Jörn: The ADiWa Project - on the Way to Just-in-Time Process Dynamics based on Events from the Internet of Things. In: 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Peking, 2011.
• Ameling, Michael; Schief, Markus; Nietzold, Frank; Kuhn, Christian: Demand-side Energy Management Systems for Manufacturing. In: Informatik 2010: Service Science - Neue Perspektiven für die Informatik, Beiträge der 40. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik. GI, Leipzig, pp. 467-472, 2010.
• Schief, Markus; Schmidt, Benedikt: Crossing the Chasm Between the Real World and Business Process Management. In: Informatik 2010 - Business Process and Service Science - Proceedings of ISSS and BPSC. GI, Leipzig, pp. 280-287, 2010.
• Schmidt, Benedikt; Schief, Markus: Towards Agile Business Processes Based on the Internet of Things. In: Advanced Manufacturing and Sustainable Logistics: 8th International Heinz Nixdorf Symposium, IHNS 2010, Paderborn, 2010.