LAI Research Associate

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The main research interest of Dr. Josef Oehmen is risk management in the value chain, with a special focus on lean product development. Risk management allows companies to design and achieve the optimal risk-return balance in their portfolio of activities, successfully take entrepreneurial risks, increase their performance, and focus their attention on where it is needed most.

Josef is also involved in the cooperation project between the King Fahd University in Saudi Arabia and MIT, focusing on research in product development and risk management. He is a member of the supervisory board of Climate InterChange, a company developing and implementing projects for the reduction of carbon emission. Before joining LAI, he was the Director for Supply Chain Management at the ETH Center for Enterprise Sciences (BWI) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).

He wrote his PhD thesis at the ETH Zurich on the topic of Supply Chain Risk Management with a focus on China. In his research, he investigated and optimized the integration and cooperation between Swiss companies and their Chinese suppliers.

Josef worked as Assistant to the CTO of SIG Holding AG and in parallel pursued an international MBA in Paris. He was intensely involved in corporate-wide Technology and Innovation Management and was responsible for technology projects. He studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich, majoring in Product Development and Production Management. He wrote his diploma thesis at LAI on Risk Management in Product Development. Josef’s list of publications can be found here.