Dr. rer. pol. Felix Schönhofen

My name is Felix Schönhofen. I was born on November 26th 1986 in the city of Stuttgart in the south of Germany. Following studies of mechanical engineering and technically oriented business administration (M.Sc.) I got the opportunity to work as a research assistant at the Chair of Information Systems II of Prof. Dr. Georg Herzwurm at the University of Stuttgart.

From the early beginning I got a fan of the method Quality Function Deployment, founded by Dr. Akao back in the 1960s. Beside the methodical development of software and software-intensive products using Quality Function Deployment, I am specially interested in Software Platforms and Ecosystems.

CV

• Since 2024
  Lecturer for IT Management at International School of Management, Stuttgart
• Since 2023
  Requirements Manager at a large German technology group
• Since 2023
  Lecturer at University of Stuttgart, Chair of Information Systems II
• Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.)
• 2016 – 2022: Lecturer and Researcher at University of Stuttgart, Chair of Information Systems II
• 2012-2016: Studies of Technically oriented Business Administration at University of Stuttgart with Degree Master of Science

Memberships

• Adkus – Association of graduates of the economic study programmes
  • Committee member for Marketing
• Gesellschaft für Informatik
  • Specialist group Requirements Engineering
• QFD-ID – QFD Institute of Germany
  • Innovation Prize 2017 for Master’s Thesis „Evaluation of platform-based business models using Quality Function Deployment“
• TV Sersheim
  • Commitee member for ball sports
• VfB Stuttgart
• VFIAS – Support Association of the Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering

Publications

Schönhofen, F. (2023), Technologieinduzierte Entwicklung neuer Wertversprechen im Software-intensive Business, Wiesbaden 2023

Pietzker, M., Schönhofen, F. and Herzwurm, G. (2023), Towards a Framework for Business Models of Enterprise Software Platforms, in: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Software Product Management, 2023

Wagner, K., Schönhofen, F. and Herzwurm, G. (2023), A competency model for the Product Management in Software-intensive Business, in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Product Management, 2023

Schönhofen, F., Schockert, S. and Herzwurm, G. (2022), Simultane Vermittlung und Evaluation einer Methode des Requirements Engineerings, in: Softwaretechnik-Trends, 42, 2022, 3, pp. 23-24

Petrik, D., Trieflinger, S. and Schönhofen, F. (2022), Aligning Value Creation in Ecosystems through Roadmapping, in: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop „Nachhaltige Wertschöpfungssysteme“ at Informatik 2022, Hamburg, Germany.

Petrik, D., Schönhofen, F. and Herzwurm, G. (2022), Understanding the Design of App Stores in IoT, in: Proceedings of the 5 ^th International Workshop on Software-intensive Business, IWSiB 2022, Pittsburgh (PA), USA

Model, K. and Schönhofen, F. (2022), Herausforderungen bei der Produktentwicklung von cyber-physischen Systemen, in: Stuttgarter Schriften zur Unternehmenssoftware, 7, 2022

Mazur, G., Herzwurm, G., Schockert, S. and Schönhofen, F. (2021), The importance of ISO 16355 in general and ISO 16355-7 for the future of QFD, in: Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Quality Function Deployment, ISQFD 2021, Aachen, Germany, pp. 221-237

Schönhofen, F., Schockert, S. and Herzwurm, G. (2021), Towards a Value Proposition Deployment for Software-intensive Innovations, in: Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Quality Function Deployment, ISQFD 2021, Aachen, Germany, pp. 35-46

Schockert, S. and Schönhofen, F. (2019), Teaching QFD: Understand how to cause good quality, in: Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Quality Function Deployment, ISQFD 2019, Boise, USA, pp. 150-161

Schönhofen, F., Schockert, S. and Herzwurm, G. (2018), ISO 16355 in Software-intensive Business, in: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software-intensive Business: Start-ups, Ecosystems and Platforms, IWSiB 2018, Espoo, Finland, pp. 158-163

Schönhofen, F., Schockert, S. and Herzwurm, G. (2018), Towards a QFD approach for Software-intensive Business, in: Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Quality Function Deployment, ISQFD 2018, Hongkong, S. 144-149

Petrik, D., Schönhofen, F., Straub, D., Herzwurm, G. and Kuolt, H (2018), Application of a software ecosystem framework for connected vacuum gripping systems, in: Procedia CIRP, 72, 2018, pp. 580 – 585

Schönhofen, F., Schockert, S. and Herzwurm, G. (2018), Das Business Model House of Quality: Bewertung plattformbasierter Geschäftsmodelle mit Quality Function Deployment, in: Proceedings der Software Engineering und Software Management 2018, Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs Softwaretechnik, SE 2018, Ulm, Germany, pp. 167-168

Straub, D., Petrik, D., Schönhofen, F., Herzwurm, G. and Kuolt, H. (2017), Geschäftsmodellentwicklung für vernetzte Vakuumsauggreifer, in: Arbeitswelten 4.0 – Chancen, Herausforderungen, Lösungen, Tagungsband der 16. Tage des Betriebs- und Systemingenieurs (TBI 2017), 23, Chemnitz, Germany, pp. 33-44

Schönhofen, F., Petrik, D., Schockert, S. and Herzwurm, G. (2017), Analysis of platform-based Business Models using Quality Function Deployment, in: Proceedings of the 23rd International QFD Symposium, ISQFD 2017, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 65 – 79

Schönhofen, F. and Schockert, S. (2017), Das Business Model House of Quality: Bewertung plattformbasierter Geschäftsmodelle mit Quality Function Deployment, in: Leimeister, J.M, Brenner, W. (Hrsg.), Proceedings der 13. Internationalen Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2017), St. Gallen, Schweiz, pp. 1477-1488