Hubert Österle (born 24 June 1949,
Dornbirn
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Dornbirn is the largest city in Vorarlb ...
) is an Austrian academic, and Professor Emeritus of Business and Information Systems, and former director of the Institute of Information Management at the
University of St. Gallen
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.
Career
Hubert Österle studied
business administration
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at the
University of Innsbruck
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It is the largest education facility in the Austrian States of Austria, ...
and the
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
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. He obtained his
PhD
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at the
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
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in 1973 with his dissertation “Computerunterstütztes Entscheidungstraining” (computer assisted decision training). After working as a consultant at
IBM
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Germany, Österle completed his postdoctoral work (
habilitation
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) on the "Design of information systems" at the
Technical University of Dortmund
TU Dortmund University () is a technical university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 35,000 students, and over 6,000 staff including 300 professors, offering around 80 Bachelor's and master's degree programs. It is situate ...
in 1980.
In 1980 Österle became full professor of business and information systems engineering at the University of St. Gallen. In 1989, he founded the Institute of Information Management. In 1997 he initiated the executive MBA program "
Business Engineering
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" at the University of St. Gallen. Österle was
editor-in-chief
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of ''
Electronic Markets
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'' and a member of the
editorial board
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s of other journals. In March 2015 Österle received an honorary doctorate from the Wroclaw University of Economics.
Besides his academic achievements, Österle founded in 1989 the consultancy company "The Information Management Group" and the Business Engineering Institute St. Gallen AG in 2003. In addition, Österle is founder and president of the board of directors of the Amiona AG and a member of the supervisory board of the CDQ AG.
Research areas
Research areas of Österle are
business engineering
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,
consumerization
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,
independent living
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,
sourcing in the
financial industry
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,
corporate data quality and life engineering.
Selected publications
;Books
Life Engineering: Machine Intelligence and Quality of Life Springer, Wiesbaden 2020.
*
Corporate Data Quality: Prerequisite for Successful Business Models.' (with
Boris Otto), epubli, Berlin 2015.
*
IT-Driven Business Models' (with
Henning Kagermann
Henning Kagermann (born 12 July 1947) is a German physicist and businessman. He was the former chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer of SAP.
Early life and education
Born in Braunschweig, Kagermann studied physics in Brau ...
and
John M. Jordan), Wiley, Hoboken/NJ 2010.
*
Geschäftsmodelle 2010: Wie CEOs Unternehmen transformieren' (with
Henning Kagermann
Henning Kagermann (born 12 July 1947) is a German physicist and businessman. He was the former chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer of SAP.
Early life and education
Born in Braunschweig, Kagermann studied physics in Brau ...
), FAZ, Frankfurt, 2006.
*
Real-Time Business: Lösungen, Bausteine und Potentiale des Business Networking' (with
Rainer Alt), Springer, Berlin 2004.
*
Customer Knowledge Management: Kundenwissen erfolgreich einsetzen' (with
Lutz M. Kolbe and
Walter Brenner), Springer, Berlin 2003.
*
Business Engineering: Auf dem Weg zum Unternehmen im Informationszeitalter.' (with
Robert Winter
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), Springer, Berlin 2000 (2nd edition, 2003).
*
Business Networking: Shaping Collaboration between Enterprises' (with
Elgar Fleisch
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and
Rainer Alt), Springer, Heidelberg 2000 (2nd edition, 2001).
*
Customer Relationship Management in der Praxis.' (with
Volker Bach Volker may refer to:
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* Volker Boulevard, Kansas City
* ''Alien Nations'' (German: ''Die Völker''), a real-time ...
), Springer, Berlin 2000.
*
Enabling Systematic Business Change: Integrated Methods and Software Tools for Business Process Redesign.' (with
Leo Brecht
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and
Thomas Hess Thomas B. Hess (1920, Rye, New York – July 13, 1978) was an American art editor and curator, perhaps best known for his over twenty years at the helm of ''ARTnews'' and his championing, mounting exhibitions of the works of, and writing on the ...
), Vieweg, Wiesbaden 1996.
*
Business in the Information Age: Heading for new Processes.' Springer, Heidelberg, 1995.
*
Total Information Systems Management: A European Approach' (with
Walter Brenner and
Konrad Hilbers Konrad Hilbers (born 1963) is a German businessman, organizational theorist, and Adjunct Professor "Practice of Information and Media management" at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Biography
Born in Ibbenbüren, Hilbers received his ...
), Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1994.
*''Unternehmensführung und Informationssystem: Der Ansatz des St. Galler Informationssystem-Managements.'' (with
Walter Brenner and
Konrad Hilbers Konrad Hilbers (born 1963) is a German businessman, organizational theorist, and Adjunct Professor "Practice of Information and Media management" at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Biography
Born in Ibbenbüren, Hilbers received his ...
), Teubner, Stuttgart, 1991 (2nd edition, 1992).
*
Entwurf betrieblicher Informationssysteme '' Hanser, München 1980.
;Selected articles
*
Towards an electronic marketplace for bricks-and-mortar services' (with
Peter Schenkel
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and
Philipp Osl), ''Acis 2013 Proceedings'' (2013)
*
Toward a functional reference model for master data quality management' (with Boris Otto and
Kai Hüner), ''Information Systems and e-Business Management'' (2012)
*
Product data quality in supply chains: the case of Beiersdorf' (with Kai Hüner, Andreas Schierning, and Boris Otto), ''Electronic Markets'' (2011)
*
Collaborative management of business metadata' (with Kai Hüner and Boris Otto), ''International Journal of Information Management'' (2011)
*
Memorandum on design-oriented information system research'' (with
Jörg Becker,
Ulrich Frank
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,
Thomas Hess Thomas B. Hess (1920, Rye, New York – July 13, 1978) was an American art editor and curator, perhaps best known for his over twenty years at the helm of ''ARTnews'' and his championing, mounting exhibitions of the works of, and writing on the ...
,
Dimitris Karagiannis,
Helmut Krcmar,
Peter Loos,
Peter Mertens,
Andreas Oberweis
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, and
Elmar J. Sinz), ''European Journal of Information Systems'' (2010)
*
Management of the Master Data Lifecycle: A Framework for Analysis' (with Martin Ofner, Kevin Straub, and Boris Otto), ''Journal of Enterprise Information Management'' (2004)
References
External links
Abschiedsvorlesung Prof. Dr. Hubert Österle May 14, 2014 at iwi.unisg.ch (''in German'')
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1949 births
Living people
Information systems researchers
Austrian business theorists
Austrian computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of St. Gallen
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg alumni
Academic journal editors