Björn Binzer, Dr.
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Dr. Björn Binzer combines academic research with extensive practical experience in digital transformation. After successfully completing his Ph.D. in Information Management, he currently serves as Senior Manager Digitalization & Customer Experience at BASF, where he drives digital transformation, automation, and employee enablement initiatives in a global business environment.
His research and professional interests focus on Citizen Development, Low-Code/No-Code technologies, employee empowerment, Business-IT collaboration, and the successful management of digital transformation processes. In particular, he is interested in how organizations can empower employees to leverage digital technologies independently for innovation, automation, and the continuous improvement of business processes.
By closely connecting academic research with industry practice, he aims to translate scientific insights into actionable recommendations for organizations while simultaneously using real-world challenges from corporate environments to advance research. His work has been published in leading international journals and conference proceedings.”
| Professional experience | |
|---|---|
| Since 01/2025 | Senior Manager Digitalization & Customer Experience, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
| 10/2021 - 01/2025 | Research Associate at the Chair of Information Management, B*IMA, FernUniversität in Hagen |
| 11/2019 - 12/2024 | Senior Business Solution Consultant & Product Owner, BASF Digital Solutions GmbH, Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
| 10/2018 – 09/2019 | Tutor, University of Cologne |
| 10/2018 – 09/2019 | Student Research Assistant, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: Institute AIFB – Research group ‘Critical Information Infrastructures’ |
| 04/2018 – 02/2019 | Student Research Assistant, University of Cologne Chair of Information Systems and Integrated Information Systems Chair for Information Systems and Systems Engineering |
| 09/2016 – 09/2016 | Junior Business Solution Consultant, BASF Business Services GmbH, Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
| Education | |
| 10/2021 - 01/2025 | Promotion (Dr. rer. pol.), Title: Enabling Citizen Development Through Low-Code/No-Code : From Strategy to Implementation, FernUniversität in Hagen |
| 10/2016 – 09/2019 | Information Systems (Master), University of Cologne |
| 08/2013 – 08/2016 | International Business Administration and Information Technology (Bachelor), University of Applied Science Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
| 05/2015 – 09/2015 | Study visit/Semester abroad, Tongji University, Shanghai, China |
Research project
Publications
Proceedings Contributions
- Björn Binzer; Daniel Fürstenau; Till Winkler: Bridging Business and IT Through Low-Code/No-Code: Insights into Business-IT Collaboration in Enterprise Citizen Developer Programs, in Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2025
- Björn Binzer; Till Winkler: ‘To Code, or Not to Code': Unpacking the Understanding and Difficulties of Citizen Development Programs, in Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings of INFORMATIK 2024, 2024
- Björn Binzer; Till Winkler: Low-Coders, No-Coders, and Citizen Developers in Demand: Examining Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Through a Job Market Analysis, in 18. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI) 2023
- Björn Binzer; Till Winkler: Democratizing Software Development: A Systematic Multivocal Literature Review and Research Agenda on Citizen Development, in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB), 2022
- Tim Dreesen; Phil Diegmann; Björn Binzer; Christoph Rosenkranz: Journey Towards Agility - A Retro- and Prospective Review, in Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2019
- Phil Diegmann; Tim Dreesen; Björn Binzer; Christoph Rosenkranz: Journey Towards Agility: Three Decades of Research on Agile Information Systems Development, in Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2018
- Björn Binzer; Thiebes, S.; Sunyaev, A. : Is There Any Difference? Investigating Individuals’ Perceptions on Donating Blood, Organs and Genomic Data, in Proceedings of the 2017 AIS SIG-Health Pre-ICIS Workshop, Seoul, South Korea
Journals
- Björn Binzer; Jennifer Kendziorra ; Anne-Katrin Witte; Till Winkler: Trust in public and private providers of health apps and usage intentions: a sectoral privacy calculus and control perspective, in Business & Information Systems Engineering 2024
- Björn Binzer; Till Winkler: Die vier Phasen von Citizen Development-Initiativen: Treiber, Herausforderungen und Handlungsempfehlungen, in HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik 2024
- Björn Binzer; Edona Elshan; Daniel Fürstenau; Till Winkler: Establishing a Low-Code/No-Code-Enabled Citizen Development Strategy, in MIS Quarterly Executive, 23(3), 2024
