Frank Piller

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Frank Piller (* 1969 ) is a German economist and professor for technology and innovation management and vice dean .

Life

After graduating from Pius-Gymnasium Aachen, he studied business administration at Julius-Maximilians-Universität until 1994 and received his doctorate in 1999. rer. pole. with a dissertation on mass customization . Piller completed his habilitation in 2004 at the Technical University of Munich . He wrote his habilitation thesis on open innovation at Ralf Reichwald's IOM chair .

Piller researches the design of customer-centric innovation and value creation processes, the management of radical business model innovations and the use of external knowledge for the innovation process. Since mid-2007 he has been full professor for technology and innovation management and since 2015 vice dean at RWTH Aachen University . At RWTH Aachen he is also the academic director of the Executive MBA of RWTH Aachen, which is offered by RWTH Business School as the official advanced training facility of RWTH Aachen for the field of management. He previously worked at Harvard Business School , Boston , and the MIT Sloan School of Management , Cambridge, MA, USA, from 2004 to 2007 .

Often quoted in the business press (> 10,000 citations) and with a very high impact score in social media ( Klout score> 60), Piller is considered one of the leading German experts for innovation management , especially open innovation, customer co-creation and product customization. His research work has received numerous awards, most recently the Co-Creation Award from the duct Development and Management Association (PDMA) and the nomination for the Innovating Innovation Award from Harvard Business Review and McKinsey .

Current research areas also include the systematic design of business model innovations, the management of disruptive innovation and the formation of organizational spaces for innovation (innovation culture). Furthermore, he deals with the economic consequences of generative manufacturing processes such as 3D printing and open source hardware regimes as well as the strategic capabilities for successful product and service customization (mass customization).

Piller is a speaker at international congresses and conferences. The Executive MBA students at the Technical University of Munich voted him “Lecturer of the Year”. Since 2010 he has been a recipient of the RWTH Aachen Rector's Prize for excellent teaching. There, as part of the Excellence Initiative , he was also awarded an ETS grant for his innovative Flipping the Classroom teaching concept, which resulted in the world's first MOOC (Massive Open Online Class) in 2013/14 , in which external participants could also acquire ECTS points . In addition to renowned universities, his partners and his research network include numerous DAX and Fortune Global 500 companies such as 3M , Adidas , BASF , Procter & Gamble , Siemens and Vodafone , as well as many young technology companies and management consultancies in Europe and the USA.

Publications

  • Alexandra Gatzweiler, Vera Blazevic, Frank Piller: Dark Side or Bright Light: Managing Deviant Content in Consumer Ideation Contests. In: The Journal of Product Innovation Management . Volume 34, No. 6, 2017, pp. 772-789.
  • D. Roberts, D. Lüttgens and F. Piller: Mapping the Impact of Social Media for Innovation: The Role of Social Media in Explaining Innovation Performance in the PDMA Comparative Performance Assessment Study . In: The Journal of Product Innovation Management . Volume 33, 2016, pp. 117-135.
  • D. Antons and F. Frank Piller: Opening the Black Box of "Not Invented Here": Attitudes, Decision Biases, and Behavioral Consequences. In: Academy of Management Perspectives . Volume 29, No. 2, 2015, 2, pp. 193-217.
  • S. Kortmann, C. Gelhard, C. Zimmermann and F. Piller: Linking Strategic Flexibility and Operational Efficiency: The Mediating Role of Ambidextrous Operational Capabilities . In: Journal of Operations Management . Volume 32, No. 5, 2014, pp. 475-490.
  • C. Weller, R. Kleer and F. Piller: Economic Implications of 3D Printing: Market Structure Models in Light of Additive Manufacturing Revisited . In: International Journal of Production Economics . Volume 164, June 2015, pp. 43-56.
  • F. Salvador, M. de Holan and F. Piller: Cracking the Code of Mass Customization . In: MIT Sloan Management Review . Volume 50, No. 3, 2009, pp. 70-79.
  • F. Piller: Observations on the present and future of mass customization . In: Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal . Volume 19, No. 4, 2007, pp. 630-636.
  • F. Piller and D. Walcher: Toolkits for idea competitions: A novel method to integrate users in new product development . In: R&D Management . Volume 36, No. 3, 2006, pp. 307-318.
  • N. Franke and F. Piller: Value Creation by Toolkits for User Innovation and Design: The Case of the Watch Market . In: Journal of Product Innovation Management . Volume 21, No. 6, 2004, pp. 401-415.
  • F. Piller and J. West: Firms, Users, and Innovation: An Interactive Model of Coupled Open Innovation . In: Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke & J. West (Eds.): New Frontiers in Open Innovation . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, pp. 29-49.
  • K. Diener and F. Piller: The Market for Open Innovation. The 2013 Open Innovation Accelerator Survey . 2nd Edition. Lulu Inc., Raleigh, NC 2013.
  • F. Piller, K. Möslein, C. Ihl and R. Reichwald: Interactive added value: Open innovation, individualization and new forms of division of labor . 3. Edition. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2017 (first edition 2006).
  • F. Piller: Mass Customization . In: Charles Wankel (Ed.): The Handbook of 21st Century Management . Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA 2008, pp. 420-430,
  • F. Piller: Mass Customization . 4th edition. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Frank Piller. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .
  2. ^ Researchgate Page: Frank Piller. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .
  3. ^ Frank Piller list of publications. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .
  4. ^ Frank Piller's Google Citation Impact. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .