Johanna Anzengruber has a nose for niches. Paradigm shifter. Bundle of energy.
Mountaineering fan & passionate barista.

I am the Professor of Strategy and Innovation and Vice Dean for Research and Internationalization at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in Linz, Austria. In addition, I work as an Affiliated Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California and as a Lecturer in Digital Innovation at the CBS International Business School in Mainz, Germany. Previously, I was appointed the Junior Professor of General Management at Steinbeis University in Berlin.

Today, I apply my diverse experience from my own research and work in both large international corporations and medium-sized companies. I regularly take on assignments in Competence and Innovation Management, Skills-Based and Agile Organization, Green and Digital Innovation – in recent years increasingly with industrial manufacturers and in the healthcare and public sectors. Learn more at business.johannaanzengruber.com

I take action with an eye on the future. That’s why it was important to me to develop a new form of skills management that would endure in an agile world informed by future planning rather than rigid role profiles, thus supporting companies in their transformation. This resulted in the Skills-Based Organization approach. You can find out how it works here:

I dream of giving people enough knowledge and “tools” to realize their ideas. That’s why the focus of my research and teaching is always on discovering and trying out, deepening and reflecting, and sharing. This creates a steady transfer between science-practice-teaching-practice-science.

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