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Business Wargaming in the Financial Sector – Article Contribution in ReThinking Finance

In their recent publication in ReThinking: Finance, Sascha Geißler, Aline Werro, and Christian Nitzl (all CISS) analyze the potential of wargaming as a strategic management tool and demonstrate how this method can also provide significant value in the financial sector.

New paper on the use of AI in military intelligence

The landmark paper „The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Military Intelligence“ co-authored by Christian Nitzl has just been published as open access in the academic journal Frontiers in Human Dynamics.

New paper on intelligence and business wargaming

The research paper „On the role of intelligence and business wargaming in developing foresight” by Aline Werro, Christian Nitzl und Uwe Borghoff has been published in Technology Analysis & Strategic Management.

New paper on Named Entity Recognition published in Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences by Springer

The EUROCAST 2024 conference paper "The Application of Named Entity Recognition in Military Intelligence" by Christian Nitzl, Achim Cyran, Sascha Krstanovic and Uwe M. Borghoff has been published in Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences by Springer.

Enhancing Decision-Making with Red Teaming

How can cognitive biases and groupthink in decision-making be systematically mitigated? Red Teaming provides a proven methodological approach to challenge assumptions, optimize strategic planning, and enhance decision resilience. At the Wargaming and Information Systems Research Program at the Center for Intelligence and Security Studies (CISS), we had the opportunity to discuss the method and its core principles with two of its original developers. Our exchange focused on how Red Teaming is applied in both research and practice.

Bridging Wargaming Research and Practice

Leading experts from academia and practice gathered at the Universität der Bundeswehr to discuss the role of wargaming in research and strategic decision-making.

Five years of the Intelligence College in Europe: Paving the way for a common European intelligence culture

In their article, former CISS Director Uwe Borghoff and colleagues describe how the Intelligence College in Europe (ICE) strengthens European intelligence cooperation.

NATO Wargaming Initiative 2024 (WIN24) conference with CISS participation

Our Wargaming and Information Systems team at the CISS participated in and contributed to the NATO Wargaming Initiative 2024 (WIN24) conference in a number of ways.

Computer Science and the Crisis

New article by Uwe Borghoff and Christian Nitzl published in Informatik Spektrum.

Wargaming Agile Values with Scrum

The CISS research program "Wargaming and Informations Systems" recently conducted a wargame with the Bundeswehr, exploring Scrum and agile principles in military structures.

The Application of Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Military Intelligence

Presentation by Uwe Borghoff on "Application of Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Military Intelligence" at the International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory.

New article "Learning from the experience of military wargames: From Models, simulations, and wargames"

Christian Nitzl, Jan Landsiedel, and Uwe Borghoff outline wargaming in an article for the journal Wirtschaftsinformatik & Management.

New article "Transdisciplinary Software Development for Early Crisis Detection" published!

Kerstin Albrecht, Christian Nitzl and Uwe Borghoff publish on how software engineering and intelligence and security research can benefit from each other.

Does strategy follow structure?

New article with the participation of Christian Nitzl examines the influence of organizational structure on administrative innovations. Open Access!

Transdisciplinarity in Software Engineering and Intelligence

Presentation by Uwe Borghoff on "Software Development for Early Crisis Detection" at the International Conference on Computer Aided Systems

CISS meets Industry

Joint Project: CISS managing director Holger Prüßing and CISS-Senior Researcher Christian Nitzl team up with Infineon for business wargaming

OUT NOW: Call for Papers for Workshop "Predicting Conflict"

Submission of abstracts for the workshop "Predicting Conflict" of the Competence Center for Crisis Early Warning now open!

Christian Nitzl is nominated for Silver Medal

Christian Nitzl's co-authored paper on mediation analysis is the most cited paper in the International Journal of Market Research and was nominated for the Silver Medal by the Market Research Society.

3rd place at the NATO Innovation Challenge for Christian Nitzl

Christian Nitzl, together with the start-up company Aleph Alpha, took an excellent 3rd place among 80 applicants in this year's NATO Innovation Challenge "Trust Autonomous Systems".

Receipt of the habilitation certificate

Christian Nitzl receives his habilitation certificate as a highlight of his academic career from Dean Prof. Stephan Kaiser.

New method paper published!

In his co-authored article, Dr. Christian Nitzl presents the Confirmatory Composite Analysis (CCA). CCA is used for the measurement of not directly observable facts.