{"id":12,"date":"2021-09-27T12:05:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T10:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isse.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:44:03","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.isse.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/english\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lazyblock-rub-bild-oben-jDwGV wp-block-lazyblock-rub-bild-oben\"><div class=\"field-std-bild-artikel\">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.isse.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/forschung.jpg\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 999px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 999\/666;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-bildzeile-custom-\">\n\t<div class=\"bildzeile-wrapper\" style=\"margin-bottom:2em\">\n\t\t<span style=\"color: #7c7c7b;display: inline-block;font-family: RUB-Neu Scala, Times, serif;font-size: 1.2em;letter-spacing: 0.02em;line-height: 1.750em;padding-top: 0.333em;\"><\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading rub-h2\">Our Mission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rub-text\">We are renowned for our excellent academic research, teaching, and engagement with practice in the area of <strong>digital transformation of industrial B2B ecosystems<\/strong>. Our contribution to economy and society is to enable the digital transformation of <strong>sales, service, and business models <\/strong>of industrial organizations. 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