Claudia Peter – författare

Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, The FOM University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, language: English, abstract: This paper poses the following questions: What is the future of Platform Business in B2B markets? How is the energy industry affected and what are fields of action to catch-up or outperform in this economic area? To examine the research problem, a descriptive method based on secondary literature, reports and statistical data will be performed. Research in this area has been limited to the energy sector with an in depth status quo. From a structure point of view, the study begins with definitions of basic terms, followed by the central chapter 'B2B Platform Business in the energy sector'. The central part is divided into three sub sections, where first of all the status quo regarding B2B platform business at E.ON, one of the largest energy companies in Germany, will be examined, following by an analysis of current trends regarding B2B platform business. The third sub section discusses fields of action for future B2B platform business at E.ON. Finally, a conclusion and outlook will summarize this research. With the rapid development of the internet and digital technologies, platforms already have grown to a global phenomenon in 2016. Nowadays, the COVID-19 pandemic further accelerated the digital transformation, which led to more progress and diversification of digital platforms. The rise of platforms like, e.g., Uber, AirBnB and Alibaba already disrupted traditional business models by connecting people, organizations and resources in an interactive way via digital technology. Through climate change in combination with digitization and new technologies, like smart meters, deep learning and a substantial stream of software platforms, the energy industry experienced massive changes due to the appearance of B2B platform businesses, such as virtual power plants or smart home platform solutions. These developments demonstrate the importance for strategic corporate management to stay up-to-date and to elaborate new B2B platform business models in order to remain profitable and competitive.

Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,3, The FOM University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, language: English, abstract: This paper poses the following questions: What do companies have to consider to act compliant to GDPR? And which restrictions apply to companies in context with employee data processing? The objective of this paper is to find answers to these questions and to derive appropriate recommendations for action to support German companies in implementing appropriate measures for GDPR compliance. Companies need to collect and process personal data about their employees over the whole employee life cycle, from recruiting, over development until exit of employees. Consequently, companies are affected by the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into effect on the 25th of May 2018. It regulates the processing of personal data by a company, an organization or an individual related to natural persons, also called data subjects. As in companies, the human resource department is involved in the whole employee journey, they play a major role as an entity which controls and processes personal data. Therefore, the implementation of appropriate measures to comply with the GDPR as laid out in this paper is essential for all companies who employ people. In the course of the advancing digitization, companies depend more and more on data and face several challenges, ranging from a frequently changing workforce, to ever-changing regulations to the unexpected pandemic with a shift of the way of working with employees and the enforcement to re-think the way employees are managed. According to Statista, Germany has the second highest aggregated value of GDPR fines imposed in Europe between May 2018 and January 2021 with 69 million euro. Only Italy registered 300.000 euro more fines during that period. No deviation between the kind of data breaches, whether related to customers or to employees could be identified. The author assumes there are employee data breaches included, especially in cases when employees are not satisfied with the company anymore or when they got fired. Fines resulting from non-compliance with GDPR are set at 20 million euro or up to 4 per cent of the annual total income of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher.

Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Economy - Environment economics, grade: 1,3, The FOM University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, language: English, abstract: The objective of this assignment is to research charging infrastructure requirements, that potentially increase the demand for electric vehicles. The scope of this work will be limited to the German market, except for the overview of the e-Mobility market development. To examine the objective a secondary research of current literature, statistical reports, media and regulations will be performed. First of all, the author will present theoretical foundations to better understand the subsequent chapters, following by an overview of the global e-Mobility market development. Hereafter, the components of charging infrastructure are examined and the current challenges regarding market penetration, following an in-depth research of the charging infrastructure requirements to increase the demand for electric vehicles. Finally, the author will summarize her conclusion and outlook. Climate change, new technologies and less dependence on fossil fuels are major drivers for the development of electric mobility. Electric mobility produces much less CO2, especially when operated using renewable based electricity and therefore seen as key element of the energy transition towards a CO2 neutral environment. In addition, the batteries of electric vehicles (EV) can be used as energy storage to offset fluctuations in solar and wind power. Thus, electric vehicles foster the market integration and expansion of these volatile energy sources. To support and promote research and development of electric vehicles the Federal Government has adopted a set of measures, e.g., the extension of charging infrastructure. The German Government set ambitious goals for the German charging infrastructure. In order to reach this goal, customers must be convinced that an EV is better than the conventional motor type cars. Slowly, but electric vehicles become more visible nowadays. The major current challenges still pose the range of batteries and the charging management. Through digitalization of traffic systems and the increasing automation of mobility in form of autonomous driving cars, the change will be further accelerated.

Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Economy - Environment economics, grade: 1,3, The FOM University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, language: English, abstract: This paper provides further research to understand the importance of strategic risk management within the energy sector. Beyond traditional risk considerations of catastrophe, terrorism, and the potential for operational failure, the energy sector is like almost all sectors confronted with disruptive risks through the adoption of new and more efficient technologies in this era. Additionally, our society is facing challenges regarding climate change, which forces the development towards a renewable instead of the traditional, fossil energy environment. Through mobile applications, analytics, sensors, social media and cloud computing the entire business landscape already fundamentally changed. There are many things happening "e;that are beyond direct human influence and managerial control"e;. The rapid changing business environment with new upcoming and disruptive business models are not identifiable with the traditional risk management frameworks. The reduced ability to forecast environmental conditions and potential risk events implies "e;that the formal strategic and investment planning frameworks based on forecasts become inadequate"e;. Traditional enterprise-wide risk management frameworks do not necessarily provide sufficient conditions for effective risk management outcomes. There are too many aspects to be contained, which makes it impossible to reflect all the risks within a simple, formalized control system. The importance of strategic risk factors and related corporate responsiveness in increasingly changing market environments exhibit a need to a more comprehensive view of the risk management process. Formalized reporting and internal control systems clearly have improved in order to let the executive board prove that it has acted to their best knowledge and belief in case of potential scandals. This defensive corporate mentality hinders innovative response to business environmental changes and therefore excludes appropriate management of strategic risks. Increasing uncertainty to determine the changes or even anticipate future risk events indicate the relevance of incorporating strategic risks into the enterprise risk management practice.

Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,0, The FOM University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, language: English, abstract: This paper poses the following questions. What is the concept of BB? What are the experiences in practice regarding the implementation of the BB (Beyond Budgeting) concept? How many companies implemented the concept successfully and how many did fail? What are budgeting related factors to achieve business agility? The objective of this assignment is to give answers to these questions by performing an analysis of current literature, journals and case studies related to that topic. To meet the objective a secondary research of current literature, case studies and scientific journals will be performed. The limitation of this paper is given by the research method and needs further validation by empirical studies. Additionally, alternative budgeting methodologies have not been examined, which could have resulted in a different conclusion regarding business agility in practice and need also be further researched. This paper is divided into two main chapters, beginning with theoretical foundations to better understand the topic, following by an analysis of the mentioned questions above. Hereafter, the research will be summarized by the author s conclusion and outlook. Digitalization requires rapid organizational flexibility and adaptability to thrive in a more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, we face nowadays. In context with these developments, traditional budgeting is criticized that it does not work as intended, is too costly, has weak connections to strategy, often prevents from being effective and that it leads to unethical behaviors. Traditional budgeting seams not flexible enough to cope with the nowadays VUCA business environment. Therefore, new budgeting mechanisms for better contribution to business operation and performance are necessary. Beyond budgeting promotes to solve the problem by implementing a performance measurement system relative to competitors and a decentralized organization structure. But very little is heard about the new concept of BB.

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