Short Biography
Daniel Fasnacht is study manager and lecturer for Finance Executive Education and SFIL Fellow at the Department of Banking and Finance and a Full Member of the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich. He has spent his career as a management consultant, banker, and CEO of asset managers in the financial sector in Switzerland, Germany, Latin America, and the UK. After he received his degrees in Business Informatics, he completed an MBA at the University of St. Gallen in collaboration with the University of Berkeley and a PhD in Strategic Management at the University of Nottingham. He is the CEO and Founder of EcosystemPartners AG, very well connected in the financial community and engaged in associations such as Asia Society, Efficiency Club, Swiss Board Forum, swissICT, among others.
Research Interests
Daniel Fasnacht works at the intersection of finance and technology and studies trends and disruptive business models that transform the financial services sector. What started with his PhD research, i.e. Open Innovation in the Financial Services, built the basis for further explorations into digital platforms, ecosystems, and most recently, frugal banking and public value.
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Publications
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2025
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Innovationsweltmeister wird man nicht allein - man bleibt es auch nicht. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag, 13 April 2025, 23.
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Soziale Netzwerke - eine digitale Seuche?. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24 January 2025, 21.
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2024
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Wirtschaftliche Situation der KMU angespannter als im Vorjahr. Zürich: NZZ Verlag.
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Leveraging inter-organizational agility for innovation. Strategy & leadership, 52(1):15-22.
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Quantum computing as an enabling technology for the next business cycle. HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 61(1):284-298.
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Virtuelle Konsumwelten –Trends mit Risiken: Gastkommentar. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 19 January 2024, 21.
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Beyond the hype: sensitive data on the blockchain. cryptovalleyjournal.com: CV Publishing AG.
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Open and Digital Ecosystems: Added Value Through Industry and Technology Convergence. (English Edition). Wiesbaden: Springer.
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2023
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Offene und digitale Ökosysteme: Mehrwert durch Branchen- und Technologiekonvergenz. Berlin: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH.
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Das Revival von Open Innovation. In: Unternehmerzeitung, 2, 1 April 2023, 40-42.
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Demokratisierung im Gesundheitswesen: Dezentrale Gesundheitsdaten. Schweizerische Ärztezeitung (SÄZ), 48(104):25.
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Die digitale Disruption bewältigen. In: Computerworld Schweiz, 6, 2023, 78-79.
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2022
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"Mit Blockchain können Abhängigkeiten abgebaut werden" (Interview). In: Handelszeitung, 39, 29 September 2022, 30.
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Lieferkettenprobleme und Fachkräftemangel: Die Zukunftsaussichten von Schweizer Unternehmen verdüstern sich: Ergebnisbericht. Zurich: NZZ & Kalaidos University of Applied Science.
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2021
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Digital Ecosystems and Super Apps. SSRN 3924260, University of Zurich.
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Agil und frugal in die Zukunft : Strategien für einen nachhaltigen Umgang mit Ausnahmesituationen. Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation, 04:243-248.
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Quanten-Computing: eine gute Investition. In: Computerworld, 5, 14 May 2021, 22-23.
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Agile and frugal strategies for the handling of increased uncertainty. SSRN 21778, University of Zurich.
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Banking 4.0: Digital Ecosystems and Super-Apps. In: Wendt, Karen. Theories of Change : Change Leadership Tools, Models and Applications for Investing in Sustainable Development. Switzerland: Springer, 10-25.
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