Krüger, Nicolai

Prof. Dr. Nicolai Krüger

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Prof. Dr. Nicolai Krüger ist Wirtschaftsinformatiker und forscht zu Verwaltungsdigitalisierung, GovTech, GovAI und eGovernment mit einem besonderen Fokus auf angewandte Künstliche Intelligenz. Er ist Gründer des pitchnext Research Transfer Hub for Applied AI, das im Rahmen von KI.NRW durch das Forschungszentrum Jülich gefördert wurde.

Neben seiner akademischen Tätigkeit ist er regelmäßiger Reviewer internationaler wissenschaftlicher Journale, Konferenzspeaker zu Künstlicher Intelligenz und engagiert sich aktiv in der Wissenschaftskommunikation, unter anderem mit dem Podcast „Forschungsimpuls – wie der digitale Staat gelingt“.

Vor seiner Professur war er international als IT-Manager tätig.

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Curriculum Vitae

Akademischer Werdegang
0 3 / 2 0 1 5 - 0 9 / 2 0 2 1Promotion in Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universität Osnabrück
1 1 / 2 0 1 2 - 1 2 / 2 0 1 4MBA, Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin
1 0 / 2 0 0 6 - 0 9 / 2 0 0 9Bachelor of Arts, DHBW Stuttgart
Akademische Tätigkeiten
1 0 / 2 0 2 4 - H E U T EProfessur für Verwaltungsinformatik, HSPV Münster
0 4 / 2 0 2 2 - 0 9 / 2 0 2 4Professur für Wirtschaftsinformatik, IU Düsseldorf
0 8 / 2 0 1 8 - 0 9 / 2 0 2 1Lehrbeauftragter, ADG Business School Montabaur
1 2 / 2 0 2 0 - 0 4 / 2 0 2 1Lehrbeauftragter, SMI Berlin
0 6 / 2 0 2 1 - 0 4 / 2 0 2 2Lehrbeauftragter, EM Normandie Business School Paris
0 1 / 2 0 1 2 - 0 1 / 2 0 1 3Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, DHBW Stuttgart
Außeruniversitäre Berufserfahrung
0 1 / 2 0 1 8 - H E U T EKEYNOTE-SPEAKER & GRÜNDER, pitchnext GmbH Mülheim
0 8 / 2 0 1 6 - 1 2 / 2 0 1 7TEAMLEITER HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN, Daimler AG Stuttgart & Silicon Valley
0 9 / 2 0 1 1 - 0 7 / 2 0 1 6SENIOR INHOUSE CONSULTANT, Daimler AG Stuttgart
0 8 / 2 0 0 9 - 0 8 / 2 0 1 1WEBDEVELOPMENT COMMERCIAL VEHICLES, Daimler AG Stuttgart

Publikationen

(Zeitschriften-) Aufsätze

Effizientes Projektmanagement in Einer-für-Alle- NachnutzungsprojektenKalchner, Katharina; Allwein, Florian; Krüger, Nicolai (2025) : Effizientes Projektmanagement in Einer-für-Alle-Nachnutzungsprojekten, IU Discussion Papers - IT & Engineering, No. 1 (Februar 2025), IU Internationale Hochschule, Erfurt

Wir brauchen ein Digitalministerium – aber aus ganz anderen GründenKrüger, N. (2025). Wir brauchen ein Digitalministerium – aber aus ganz anderen Gründen. eGovernment (25. Jahrgang), 04/2025). S. 4.

Decentralized Finance: Development of a taxonomy to support regulatory measuresWagner, Michel; Krüger, Nicolai; Kleffmann, Markus; Teuteberg, Frank (2024) : Decentralized Finance: Development of a taxonomy to support regulatory measures, IU Discussion Papers - IT & Engineering, No. 2 (Juli 2024), IU Internationale Hochschule, Erfurt

Amidst rapid developments in digital financial technologies, the need for effective Decentralized Finance (DeFi) regulation is at the center of discussions. This paper aims to develop a comprehensive taxonomy for DeFi that brings to the forefront the diverse structures and characteristics of protocols and applications and can serve as a basis for developing regulatory policies. A detailed analysis of 144 DeFi projects is conducted using a qualitative research approach with inductive methodology. (...)

KI-Tools für alle Fälle. Molin, H.; Krüger, N. (2024). KI-Tools für alle Fälle. Training aktuell (02/2024)

Plug and Play AI – How Companies Can Benefit from AI as a ServiceKrüger, N., Stibe, A. & Krüger, J. (2024). Chapter 8 Plug and Play AI – How Companies Can Benefit from AI as a Service. In I. Lausberg & M. Vogelsang (Ed.), AI in Business and Economics (pp. 101-112). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110790320-008

Learning to play Sokoban from videosFricker, N. B., Krüger, N., & Schubart, C. (2024). Learning to play Sokoban from videos. IU Discussion Papers-IT & Engineering (No. 3).

In order to learn a task through behavior cloning, a dataset consisting of state-action pairs is needed. However, this kind of data is often not available in sufficient quantity or quality. Consequently, several publications have addressed the issue of extracting actions from a sequence of states to convert them into corresponding state-action pairs (Torabi et al., 2018; Edwards et al., 2019; Baker et al., 2022; Bruce et al., 2024). Using this dataset, an agent can then be trained via behavior (...)

ChatGPT et al. Was bedeutet ChatGPT für den wissenschaftlichen Schreibprozess?Krüger, N. (2023). ChatGPT et al. Was bedeutet ChatGPT für den wissenschaftlichen Schreibprozess?. Exposé–Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliches Schreiben und Publizieren, 4(2), 12-15.

ChatGPT et al. Was bedeutet ChatGPT für den wissenschaftlichen Schreibprozess?

Towards acceptance criteria for a digital euroKrüger, Nicolai; Busche, Jan (2023) : Towards acceptance criteria for a digital euro, IU Discussion Papers - IT & Engineering, No. 2 (Juli 2023), IU Internationale Hochschule, Erfurt

Alongside other central banks, the European Central Bank (ECB) is currently exploring the potential of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Such a significant payment innovation requires compliance with the ECB's mandate based on the Treaties of the European Union, in addition to socio-technical and socioeconomic considerations. Thus, Information Systems (IS) researchers might witness and actively participate in one of the most important changes associated to currency-related fundamental (...)

Das Multitalent namens KI. Krüger, N. (2023). Das Multitalent namens KI. Training aktuell. 03/2023.

Knowledge behavior gap model: An application for technology acceptanceStibe, A., Krüger, N., Behne, A. (2022). Knowledge Behavior Gap Model: An Application for Technology Acceptance. In: Awan, I., Younas, M., Poniszewska-Marańda, A. (eds) Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems. MobiWIS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13475. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14391-5_1

Organizational change initiatives and societal health campaigns often fail or produce unsustainable outcomes. Intense trainings and knowledge sharing not necessarily lead to expected behavioral results. Is there a gap between what people know and what they do? This paper investigates ways for understanding and closing this gap. It reviews the literature related to innovation diffusion and technology acceptance. Based on that, it develops a Knowledge Behavior Gap model, containing four main (...)

Exploring User Acceptance Determinants of COVID-19-Tracing Apps to Manage the Pandemic.Krüger, N., Behne, A., Beinke, J. H., Stibe, A., & Teuteberg, F. (2022). Exploring User Acceptance Determinants of COVID-19-Tracing Apps to Manage the Pandemic. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI), 18(1), 1-27. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJTHI.293197

Tracing infectious individuals and clusters is a major tactic for mitigating the pandemic. This paper explores the factors impacting the intentions and actual use of COVID-19 contact tracing apps based on a technology acceptance model. A partial least squares structural equation model has been applied to understand determinants for the usage of tracing apps based on a large sample (N = 2,398) from more than 30 countries (mainly from Germany and USA). Further, the paper presents a classification (...)

Learnings from the design and acceptance of the German COVID-19 tracing app for IS-driven crisis management: a design science researchBehne, A., Krüger, N., Beinke, J.H. et al. Learnings from the design and acceptance of the German COVID-19 tracing app for IS-driven crisis management: a design science research. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 21, 238 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-021-01579-7

This article investigates the research problem of digital solutions to overcome the pandemic, more closely examining the limited effectiveness and scope of the governmental COVID-19 tracing apps, using the German COVID-19 tracing app (Corona-Warn-App) as an example. A well-designed and effective instrument in the technological toolbox is of utmost importance to overcome the pandemic.

Are Hackathons the New e-Learning Environments? On the Outcome of the #WirVsVirus Hackathon From a Learning Outcome PerspectiveN. Krüger and F. Teuteberg, "Are Hackathons the New e-Learning Environments? On the Outcome of the #WirVsVirus Hackathon From a Learning Outcome Perspective," 2020 Sixth International Conference on e-Learning (econf), Sakheer, Bahrain, 2020, pp. 225-228, doi: 10.1109/econf51404.2020.9385424.

The unprecedented situation of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic holds seed grains for novel phenomena in the field of innovative learning experiences: Virtual hackathon events might represent a new form of remote co-creation, learning and upskilling. The #WirVsVirus hackathon event in Germany has been initiated by the government to compensate the lockdown-related absence of physical innovation experiences. By analyzing the data set of projects initialized during the hackathon event (n = 1,499), (...)

Nicolai Krüger The black mirror: What your mobile phone number reveals about youKrüger, N., Stibe, A., Teuteberg, F. (2020). The Black Mirror: What Your Mobile Phone Number Reveals About You. In: Abramowicz, W., Klein, G. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 389. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53337-3_2

In the present era of pervasive mobile technologies, interconnecting innovations are increasingly prevalent in our lives. In this evolutionary process, mobile and social media communication systems serve as a backbone for human interactions. When assessing privacy risks related to this, privacy scoring models (PSM) can help quantifying the personal information risks. This paper uses the mobile phone number itself as a basis for privacy scoring. We tested 1,000 random phone numbers for their (...)

XPlatoon – Simulation und Prototypisierung eines Vermittlermodells für LKW-Platooning.Krüger, N., Teuteberg, F. (2019). XPlatoon – Simulation und Prototypisierung eines Vermittlermodells für LKW-Platooning. In: Marx Gómez, J., Solsbach, A., Klenke, T., Wohlgemuth, V. (eds) Smart Cities/Smart Regions – Technische, wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Innovationen. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25210-6_7

Die elektronische Kopplung von LKW (Platooning) erlangt in Forschung und Praxis zunehmend Aufmerksamkeit. Pilotprojekte im realen Straßenverkehr finden in zahlreichen Ländern statt und wichtige Testkilometer werden gesammelt. Doch jenseits technisch motivierter Fragen existieren zahlreiche nahezu unangetastete Forschungsgebiete an den Schnittstellen zwischen Technologie, Ökonomie und Gesellschaft. Zahlreiche Publikationen weisen auf das bislang ungeklärte Problem der Platooning-Geschäftsmodelle (...)

Produktentwicklung per Hackathon. Nerdig Working. Produktentwicklung per Hackathon. Nerdig Working. managerSeminare 259, Oktober 2019, Seite 32-40.

Truck Platooning: Towards Future Business Models.Krüger, N., & Teuteberg, F. (2018). Truck Platooning: Towards Future Business Models. In MKWI (pp. 3-9).

Automated driving trucks promise significant improvements with regards to traffic, logistic costs and emissions. Platooning can be seen as the next technological step in this direction. While the body of literature reflects the engineering perspective of platooning extensively, an Information Systems discussions about user-centered business models are rare. Our paper aims to strengthen the Information Systems perspective on platooning and its inherent business models. Up to the current state of (...)

Consulting Business Models in the Digital Era.Krüger, N., & Teuteberg, F. (2018). Consulting Business Models in the Digital Era. In MKWI (pp. 1273-1284).

Consulting research and consulting practice needs to think beyond digitalization. Consulting business models for a digital ecosystem are requested but can rarely be found in the relevant literature and the market. Coping with legacy systems and shifting historical strategy decisions is still on the agenda of many consulting projects. This paper aims to deliver a scientific building block to the consulting business by exploring the consulting processes and methods in the digitalized age. Based on (...)

IT Consultants as Change Agents in Digital Transformation Initiatives. Krüger, N., & Teuteberg, F. (2016, March). IT Consultants as Change Agents in Digital Transformation Initiatives. In MKWI (pp. 1019-1030).

Digital transformation (DT) is a broad field for IT and strategy consulting companies. It requires a special mixture of cross disciplinary competences and experiences. While pure IT consultants find themselves progressively in new situations of organizational change or ethical considerations (e.g. autonomous driving), strategy consultants are asked more often for support in technological problems. IS literature has elaborated socio-technological concepts, but in terms of DT those models leave an (...)

From Smart Meters to Smart Products: Reviewing Big Data driven Product Innovation in the European Electricity Retail Market.Krüger, N., & Teuteberg, F. From Smart Meters to Smart Products: Reviewing Big Data driven Product Innovation in the European Electricity Retail Market.

This papertriestoprovide a perspective on energyinformatics that goes beyond solely technical research. Combiningthe viewpointsofenergy informatics andinformationsystems in a review of top-ranked literature,weaim to start the discussion howtobridge thegap between a technology-driven focus on big datapossibilities(such as smart grid, smart metering, etc.) and a business model-driven perspective (innovation, price-reduction, CRM, etc.). With this paperwe further underline thenecessity of an (...)
Audiovisuelle Medien

ForschungsimpulsKrüger, N. (2025). Forschungsimpuls - Wie der digitale Staat gelingt.

Ein Wissenschaftspodcast, der sich der Forschung zum digitalen Wandel des Staates widmet. Wir diskutieren, wie Resilienz und digitale Souveränität in der Verwaltung wissenschaftlich fundiert gestaltet werden können. Mit Impulsen aus Informatik und digitalen Technologien beleuchten wir den öffentlichen Sektor aus einer neuen Perspektive.

loTalk #17 mit Gründer, Berater & Dozent Prof. Dr. Nicolai KrügerVodafone Podcast Dr. IoT, #17

Neue künstliche Intelligenz - Wie dumm macht uns ChatGPT wirklich?Neue künstliche Intelligenz - Wie dumm macht uns ChatGPT wirklich? Fragenswert?! Der Interview Podcast #20

Gründungsintelligenz und ChatGPT: Revolutionierende Technologie für UnternehmensgründungenGründungsintelligenz und ChatGPT: Revolutionierende Technologie für Unternehmensgründungen

Schnell denken statt weit laufen - Hackathons als kreativer LösungssprintknowIT - Folge 13 - Schnell denken statt weit laufen - Hackathons als kreativer Lösungssprint

Besitz und Handel im Metaversum – Per Anhalter:in durchs MetaversumBesitz und Handel im Metaversum – Per Anhalter:in durchs Metaversum #PADM

Buchbeiträge

Learnings from a Technological Fusion: Uncovering the Impacts of Generative AI and NoCode Automation on Sales and MarketingKrüger, N., Mertens, S. (2024). Learnings from a Technological Fusion: Uncovering the Impacts of Generative AI and NoCode Automation on Sales and Marketing. In: Bolz, T., Schuster, G. (eds) Generative Künstliche Intelligenz in Marketing und Sales. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-45132-5_6

Bücher/Monographien

Künstliche Intelligenz in Training, Weiterbildung und BeratungKrüger, N. (2022). Künstliche Intelligenz in Training, Weiterbildung und Beratung

Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) steckt voller Kreativität, Inspiration und Überraschungen. Es ist höchste Zeit, sich dieser Technologie auch in Training und Beratung zu bedienen! Ganz ohne Vorkenntnisse in Programmierung oder Statistik lernen Sie in dieser Toolbox 70 sofort anwendbare Werkzeuge („#KInspirationen“) auf Basis von Künstlicher Intelligenz kennen. Im Trainings- und Beratungsumfeld können so konzeptionelle Arbeiten, aber auch Marketing und Vertrieb vereinfacht werden. Es werden außerdem (...)

Strategic service innovation: a human-centered mixed-methods approachKrüger, N. (2021). Strategic service innovation: a human-centered mixed-methods approach (Doctoral dissertation, Universität Osnabrück).