Accenture Campus Challenge 2011: University of Liechtenstein wins Swiss finals

In Zurich on 22 June 2011, a team of students from the Master’s degree programme in Business Process Management at the University of Liechtenstein won the Swiss regional finals in the Accenture Campus Challenge 2011 – a competition for students of technology and business economics in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The winning team, including Stefan Debortoli, Adrian Dolensky, Valentin Erlenbusch and Joona Rauhamäki, were able to beat the participants from the University of Zurich. On 7 and 8 July 2011, the group will go head-to-head with the finalists from Germany and Austria at the Accenture headquarters for German-speaking countries in Kronberg near Frankfurt.

With the Accenture Campus Challenge, the globally operating management consultancy, technology and outsourcing service supplier has set up a competition where students from universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland can stretch themselves by tackling the daily challenges coming from customers. In teams, students of technology and business economics degree programmes find innovative ideas and options to implement. The high quality of the work by the students from Liechtenstein on the business administration topic “Development of a cross-company sustainability programme” now leads the group from the Vaduz campus into the international final.

“The victory in the Swiss regional finals is a further indication of the excellence of the courses and the students in our internationally-oriented degree programme,” says a delighted Bernd Schenk, Executive Director of the Master’s degree programme in Business Process Management at the Institute of Information Systems. “Our congratulations go to all five teams from the University of Liechtenstein, who performed brilliantly, making this success possible,” continues Schenk. 

The Master’s degree programme in Business Process Management (BPM) at the University of Liechtenstein includes one of the most active BPM research groups in Europe. Four professors, 15 lecturers and research assistants as well as 20 guest lecturers from all over the world are involved in the degree programme, contributing to the high quality of the course. Every autumn, only 25 students are taken onto the programme – usually coming from more than 15 countries. To conclude, as Academic Director of the degree programme and Head of the Institute of Information Systems, Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke, Hilti Chair of Business Process Management at the University of Liechtenstein, emphasizes one aspect in particular: “The employment rate of our students is almost 100%.”