Professor Dr. Jens Kolb

Vice President for Transfer and Postgraduate Studies

Professor for the field of digitalisation and technology management

Coordinator of studies with deepened practical experience and composite studies

Head of the degree programme Management, Digitization and Sustainability (BA)

Director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Sustainability

Head of Strategic Management and Leadership (MBA)

Message to Professor Dr. Jens Kolb

Phone: +49 731 /9762-1250

Location: Main Building B, B.1.21

Faculty:: Information Management
Address:: Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences
Wileystraße 1
89231 Neu-Ulm

Teaching

Courses

Sustainablity & CSR
Digital Transformation
Disruptive Technologies
Applied Data Science
Design Thinking

Bachelor/Master Thesis

Open Topics

Please find below a list of possible focus areas for your bachelor / master thesis.

Current dissertation opportunities for master’s students

Master thesis for WS26/27:

Validity and Perception of AI-Based Person–Job Fit Analyses: An Empirical Study on Acceptance and Trust in Matching Systems
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Interested in a topic or do you have your own idea?
Please contact me for a personal appointment.

Research Areas

Key focus: Sustainability

Literature Review Sustainability & Digitalization
Comparison sustainability reporting tools
Evaluation of the impact digital technologies on the sustainability of companies
Application of a evaluation framework for sustainable digital technologies
Change management in sustainability projects (social, cultural)
Investigating artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of sustainability
Sustainability trends in the different industries

Key focus: Digitalisation/Technology Management

Literature review technology management
EAM - Enterprise Architecture Management in companies
Digitalisation of corporate communication
Lean process and project management

Key focus: Marketing:

Branding and Website for a Barista
Social Media for the Postgraduate Studies
Paid Content Strategy for the Postgraduate Studies
Podcast Creation with AI Tools
Website Concept for Postgraduate Studies

A list of finished theses can be found HERE.

Research

Research Focus

Publications

Publication list

Schallmo, Daniel R.A. and Pätzmann, Jens U. and Kolb, Jens and Schulz, Antonia, eds. (2026) Sustainable Entrepreneurship : Case Studies, Approaches, and Tools for Ecosystems, Business Models, and Technologies. (opens in a new window) Cham: Springer. (Contributions to Management Science). ISBN 9783032175601
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Schallmo, Daniel and Kolb, Jens and Schuster, Tassilo and Athanassopoulo, Nicky and Sepetis, Anastasios (2025) Twin Transformation : Understanding the nature and combination of digital and sustainability transformation. (opens in a new window) International Journal of Innovation Management, 29 (05/06), Art.: 2501001. ISSN 1363-9196
Kolb, Jens and Maslowski, Lara and Schallmo, Daniel (2023) Introduction of a Sustainability-enabled Assessment Framework for Digital Technologies (SAFT). (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) XXXIV ISPIM Innovation Conference "Innovation and Circular Economy", June, 4-7, 2023, Ljubljana, Slovenia. ISBN 9789526506937
Moderau, Laura and Kolb, Jens (2023) Perception of sustainability labels : Cross-Cultural study of Germany and France. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) ISPIM Connects Salzburg "The sound of innovation", December, 11 -13, 2023, Salzburg, Austria. (LUT Scientific and Expertise Publications). ISBN 9789526506944
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Kolb, Jens and Leible, Sarah and Maslowski, Lara and Schallmo, Daniel (2023) Sustainability-enabled assessment of digital technologies. (opens in a new window) International Journal of Innovation Management : IJIM. ISSN 1363-9196
Zimoch, Michael and Kolb, Jens and Reichert, Manfred (2016) Considering Social Distance as an Influence Factor in the Process of Process Modeling. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) 17th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS), June, 13-14, 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia, pp. 97-112. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; 248). ISBN 9783319394282
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Mundbrod, Nicolas and Grambow, Gregor and Kolb, Jens and Reichert, Manfred (2015) Context-Aware Process Injection: Enhancing Process Flexibility by Late Extension of Process Instances. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) 23rd International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), October, 26-30, 2015, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 127-145. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 9415). ISBN 9783319261478
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Kolb, Jens and Leopold, Henrik and Mendling, Jan, eds. (2015) Enterprise modelling and information systems architectures : Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Enterprise Modelling and Information Systmes Architectures, September 3-4, 2015 Innsbruck, Austria. (opens in a new window) Koellen. (Lecture Notes in Informatics; 248). ISBN 9783885796428
Kammerer, Klaus and Kolb, Jens and Andrews, Kevin and Bueringer, Stefan and Meyer, Britta and Reichert, Manfred (2015) User-centric Process Modeling and Enactment: The Clavii BPM Platform. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) BPM Demo Session 2015 (BPMD), co-located with the 13th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM), September, 2, 2015, Innsbruck, Austria, pp. 135-139. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; 1418).
Kolb, Jens (2015) Abstraction, Visualization, and Evolution of Process Models. (opens in a new window) Dissertation thesis, Universität Ulm.
Grambow, Gregor and Mundbrod, Nicolas and Kolb, Jens and Reichert, Manfred (2015) Supporting Data Collection in Complex Scenarios with Dynamic Data Collection Processes. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) Information Systems Engineering in Complex Environments (CAiSE Forum 2014), Selected Extended Papers, June, 16-20, 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 52-67. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; 204). ISBN 9783319192703
Kammerer, Klaus and Kolb, Jens and Ronis, Sebastian and Reichert, Manfred (2015) Collaborative Process Modeling with Tablets and Touch Tables — A Controlled Experiment. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) IEEE 9th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), May, 13-15, 2015, Athens, Greece, pp. 31-41.
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Governatori, Guido and Grossmann, Georg and Kolb, Jens (2015) Message from the EVL-BP 2015 Workshop Co-Chairs. (opens in a new window) In: 19th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop, Adelaide, Australia, September 21-25, 2015 / Hallé, Sylvain ; Mayer, Wolfgang (Eds). IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1-3. ISBN 9781467393317
Kammerer, Klaus and Kolb, Jens and Reichert, Manfred (2015) PQL - A Descriptive Language for Querying, Abstracting and Changing Process Models. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) 16th International Working Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS), 20th International Conference, EMMSAD 2015, Held at CAiSE 2015, June, 8 -9, 2015, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 135-140. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; 214). ISBN 9783319192376
Kolb, Jens and Zimoch, Michael and Weber, Barbara and Reichert, Manfred (2014) How Social Distance of Process Designers Affects the Process of Process Modeling: Insights From a Controlled Experiment. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) 29th Annual ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2014), Enterprise Engineering Track, March, 24-28, 2014, Gyeongju, South Korea, pp. 1364-1370. ISBN 978145034694
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Grambow, Gregor and Mundbrod, Nicolas and Kolb, Jens and Reichert, Manfred (2014) Towards Simple and Robust Automation of Sustainable Supply Chain Communication. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) 22nd International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), October, 27-31, 2014, Amantea, Italy, pp. 644-647. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 8842). ISBN 9783662455500
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Kolb, Jens and Rudner, Benjamin and Reichert, Manfred (2013) Gesture-based Process Modeling Using Multi-Touch Devices. (opens in a new window) International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design : IJISMD, 4 (4). pp. 48-69. ISSN 1947-8186
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Kolb, Jens and Leopold, Henrik and Mendling, Jan and Reichert, Manfred (2013) Creating and Updating Personalized and Verbalized Business Process Descriptions. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) 6th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM'13), November, 6-7, 2013, Riga, Latvia, pp. 191-205. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; 165). ISBN 9783642416415
Lanz, Andreas and Kolb, Jens and Reichert, Manfred (2013) Enabling Personalized Process Schedules with Time-aware Process Views. (opens in a new window) In: CAiSE 2013 Workshops, 2nd International Workshop on Human-Centric Information Systems (HCIS), June, 18, 2013, Valencia, Spain, pp. 205-216. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; 148). ISBN 9783642384899
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Kolb, Jens and Reichert, Manfred (2013) Data Flow Abstractions and Adaptations through Updatable Process Views. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) 28th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'13), 10th Enterprise Engineering Track (EE'13), March, 18-22, 2013, Coimbra, Portugal, pp. 1447-1453. ISBN 9781450316569
Kolb, Jens and Reichert, Manfred (2013) A Flexible Approach for Abstracting and Personalizing Large Business Process Models. (opens in a new window) Applied Computing Review : ACR, 13 (1). pp. 6-17. ISSN 1559-6915
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Kolb, Jens and Reichert, Manfred (2013) Supporting Business and IT through Updatable Process Views: The proView Demonstrator. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) ICSOC'12, Demo Track of the 10th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, November, 12-15, 2012, Shanghai, China, pp. 460-464. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 7759). ISBN 9783642378034
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Grambow, Gregor and Mundbrod, Nicolas and Kolb, Jens and Reichert, Manfred (2013) Towards Collecting Sustainability Data in Supply Chains with Flexible Data Collection Processes. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis. 3rd IFIP WG 2.6, 2.12 Int. Symposium (SIMPDA 2013), Revised Selected Papers, August, 30, 2013, Riva del Garda, Italy, pp. 25-47. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; 203). ISBN 9783662464366
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Kolb, Jens and Kammerer, Klaus and Reichert, Manfred (2012) Updatable Process Views for User-centered Adaption of Large Process Models. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) 10th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), November 12-15, 2012, Shanghai, China, pp. 484-498. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 7636). ISBN 9783642343209
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Kolb, Jens and Hübner, Paul and Reichert, Manfred (2012) Automatically Generating and Updating User Interface Components in Process-Aware Information Systems. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) 20th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, September, 12-14, 2012, Rome, Italy, pp. 444-454. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 7565). ISBN 9783642336058
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Mundbrod, Nicolas and Kolb, Jens and Reichert, Manfred (2012) Towards a System Support of Collaborative Knowledge Work. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Case Management (ACM'12), BPM'12 Workshops, September, 2, 2012, Tallinn, Estonia, pp. 31-42. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; 132). ISBN 9783642362859
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Kolb, Jens and Kammerer, Klaus and Reichert, Manfred (2012) Updatable Process Views for Adapting Large Process Models: The proView Demonstrator. (opens in a new window) In: Demo Track of the 10th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM'12), September, 3-6, 2012, Tallinn, Estonia, pp. 6-11. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; 940).
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Kolb, Jens and Hübner, Paul and Reichert, Manfred (2012) Model-Driven User Interface Generation and Adaptation in Process-Aware Information Systems. (opens in a new window) Technical Report, UIB-2012-04, Ulm: University of Ulm.
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Kolb, Jens and Rudner, Benjamin and Reichert, Manfred (2012) Towards Gesture-based Process Modeling on Multi-Touch Devices. (opens in a new window) In: 1st Int'l Workshop on Human-Centric Process-Aware Information Systems (HC-PAIS'12), June, 25th, 2012, Gdansk, Poland, pp. 280-293. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; 112). ISBN 9783642310690
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Kolb, Jens and Reichert, Manfred and Weber, Barbara (2012) Using Concurrent Task Trees for Stakeholder-centered Modeling and Visualization of Business Processes. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) 4th International Conference, S-BPM ONE 2012 "Education and Industrial Developments", April, 4-5, 2012, Vienna, Austria, pp. 237-251. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; 284). ISBN 9783642292941
Reichert, Manfred and Kolb, Jens and Bobrik, Ralph and Bauer, Thomas (2012) Enabling Personalized Visualization of Large Business Processes through Parameterizable Views. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) 27th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC'12), 9th Enterprise Engineering Track (EE'12), March, 25-29, 2012, Trento, Italy, pp. 1653-1660. ISBN 9781450308571
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Reichert, Manfred and Kolb, Jens and Bobrik, Ralph and Bauer, Thomas (2012) Enabling Personalized Visualization of Large Business Processes through Parameterizable Views. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) 27th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC'12), 9th Enterprise Engineering Track (EE'12), March 25-29, 2012, Trento, Italy, pp. 1653-1660.
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Kabicher-Fuchs, Sonja and Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie and Recker, Jan and Indulska, Marta and Charoy, Francois and Christiaanse, Rob and Dunkl, Reinhold and Grambow, Gregor and Kolb, Jens and Leopold, Henrik and Mendling, Jan (2012) Human-Centric Process-Aware Information Systems (HC-PAIS). (opens in a new window) arXiv:1211.4986v1. pp. 1-8.
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Dadam, Peter and Reichert, Manfred and Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie and Lanz, Andreas and Pryss, Rüdiger and Predeschly, Michael and Kolb, Jens and Ly, Linh Thao and Jurisch, Martin and Kreher, Ulrich and Goeser, Kevin (2009) From ADEPT to AristaFlow BPM Suite: A Research Vision has become Reality. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) Business Process Management (BPM'09) Workshops, 1st International Workshop on Empirical Research in Business Process Management (ER-BPM '09), September 2009, Ulm, Germany, pp. 529-531. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; 43).
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Reichert, Manfred and Dadam, Peter and Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie and Lanz, Andreas and Pryss, Rüdiger and Predeschly, Michael and Kolb, Jens and Ly, Linh Thao and Jurisch, Martin and Kreher, Ulrich and Goeser, Kevin (2009) Enabling Poka-Yoke Workflows with the AristaFlow BPM Suite. (opens in a new window) In: (Proceedings of the) 7th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM'09 ), 8-10 September 2009, Ulm, Germany. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; 489).
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Kolb, Jens (2007) Vergleich klassischer Analysen im Geschäftsprozessmanagement und Entwicklung einer neuen Analyse mit Data-Mining-Verfahren. (opens in a new window) Diploma thesis, Universität Ulm.
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