Bio:

Marie is a PhD candidate at the Chair of Information Systems & Transformation Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She has an academic background in business information systems and has worked for McKinsey's Technology Office in Berlin. 

While her consulting work at McKinsey focused primarily on the public sector, Marie has continuously supported efforts in the social sector, working with various NGOs on national and international levels. Hereby she has supported various topics centering around digitalization and technological transformation, from developing new organizational strategies to introducing process automation.

Curriculum Vitae:

Academic Background

• Apr 2015 to Oct 2017: M. Sc. in Business Informatics at the University of Trier
• Jan 2013 to Jun 2013: Semester abroad at St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University
• Oct 2011 to Sep 2014: B. A.  in International Trade (Business) at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) Mosbach

Work Experience

• Since Apr 2023: Executive Strategy Controller, BWI GmbH
• May 2018 to Mar 2023: Senior Consultant, McKinsey & Company Inc.
• Feb 2017 to Jun 2017: Master thesis, Agfa HCIS GmbH
• Mar 2016 to Aug 2026: Trainee, KPMG Luxembourg
• Okt 2011 to Sep 2014: DHBW Student, Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG 

Fields of Research:

• Cognitive Biases and non-rational Behaviour in Relation to Information Systems 
• Countermeasures to Cognitive Biases and non-rational Behaviour 
• Information Systems in the Social Sector

Publications:

• Zubler, Marie-E.; Koch, Julian; Plattfaut, Ralf: User-driven technology in NGOs - A computationally intensive theory approach. In: International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, Vol 5 (2025). doi:10.1016/j.jjimei.2024.100307CitationDetails
• Zubler, Marie-E.; Plattfaut, Ralf; Niehaves, Björn: Decolonizing IT governance in international non-governmental organisations: An Ubuntu approach. In: Information Systems Journal (2024). doi:10.1111/isj.12541CitationDetails
• Godefroid, Marie-E.; Borghoff, Vincent; Plattfaut, Ralf; Niehaves, Björn: Structural power imbalances in global organisations: analysing IT governance from a postcolonial perspective. In: European Journal of Information Systems (2024), p. 1-22. doi:10.1080/0960085X.2024.2325358CitationDetails
• Godefroid, Marie; Gan, Yun; Hüls, Gerrit; Plattfaut, Ralf; Niehaves, Björn: Addressing status quo bias to turn a failing decision system introduction around: the case of DB Schenker. In: Journal of Decision Systems (2024), p. 1-30. doi:10.1080/12460125.2024.2410515CitationDetails
• Godefroid, Marie-E.; Plattfaut, Ralf; Niehaves, Björn: Increasing RPA Adoption: An Experiment on Countermeasures for Status Quo Bias. In: Di Francescomarino, Chiara; Burattin, Andrea; Janiesch, Christian; Sadiq, Shazia (Ed.): Business Process Management. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham 2023, p. 323-340. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-41620-0_19CitationDetails
• Weber, Sebastian; Godefroid, Marie; Knop, Michael; Plattfaut, Ralf; Niehaves, Bjoern: How do medical professionals make sense (or not) of artificial intelligence? A social-media-based computational grounded theory study (Preprint), 2022. doi:10.2196/preprints.44090) CitationDetails
• Godefroid, Marie; Borghoff, Vincent; Plattfaut, Ralf; Niehaves, Bjoern: Is Centralization Good IT Governance or Postcolonial: Insights from NGOs. In: Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Information Systems. 2022. Full textCitationDetails
• Godefroid, Marie; Plattfaut, Ralf: The Power of Positivity: Framing IS adoption messages just right. In: Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Information Systems. 2022. Full textCitationDetails
• Godefroid, Marie-E.; Plattfaut, Ralf; Niehaves, Björn: How to measure the status quo bias? A review of current literature. In: Management Review Quarterly (2022). doi:10.1007/s11301-022-00283-8CitationDetails
• Plattfaut, Ralf; Borghoff, Vincent; Godefroid, Marie; Koch, Julian; Trampler, Michael; Coners, André: The Critical Success Factors for Robotic Process Automation. In: Computers in Industry, Vol 138 (2022), p. 103646. doi:10.1016/j.compind.2022.103646CitationDetails
• Godefroid, Marie; Borghoff, Vincent; Plattfaut, Ralf: Lightweight IT-Governance for NGOs: An Unresolved Challenge. In: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on e-Society. 2021. CitationDetails
• Godefroid, Marie; Plattfaut, Ralf; Niehaves, Björn: IT Outside of the IT Department: Reviewing Lightweight IT in Times of Shadow IT and IT Consumerization. In: 16. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik. 2021. Full textCitationDetails
• Godefroid, Marie; Zeuge, Anna; Oschinsky, F.; Plattfaut, Ralf; Niehaves, Björn: Cognitive Biases in IS Research: A Framework Based on a Systematic Literature Review. In: Proceedings of the 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. 2021. CitationDetails
• Käss, Sebastian; Godefroid, Marie; Borghoff, Vincent; Strahringer, Susanne; Westner, Markus; Plattfaut, Ralf: Towards a taxonomy of concepts describing IT outside the IT department. In: Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2021. 2021. CitationDetails
• Plattfaut, Ralf; Coners, André; Becker, Jörg; Vollenberg, Carolin; Koch, Julian F.; Godefroid, Marie; Halbach-Türscherl, David: Patient Portals in German Hospitals – Status Quo and Quo Vadis. In: Becker, Jörg; Dugas, Martin; Gieseke, Fabian; Hellingrath, Bernd; Hoeren, Thomas; Klein, Stefan; Kuchen, Herbert; Trautmann, Heike; Vossen, Gottfried (Ed.): ERCIS Working Papers. 2020. Full textCitationDetails