Hubert Österle

Hubert Österle

(2011)
Born (1949-06-24) 24 June 1949
Dornbirn, Austria
Known for Professor of business and information systems engineering

Hubert Österle (born 1949 in Austria) is Emeritus Professor of Business and Information Systems,[1] former director of the Institute of Information Management at the University of St. Gallen,[2] and president of the board of directors of the Business Engineering Institute St. Gallen AG.[3]

Career

Born in Dornbirn, Austria, Österle studied business administration at the University of Innsbruck and the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz. He obtained his PhD at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1973.[4] After working as a consultant at IBM Germany, Österle completed his postdoctoral work (habilitation) on the "Design of information systems" at the Technical University of Dortmund 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.[5] In 1997 he initiated the executive MBA program "business engineering" at the University of St. Gallen.[6] May 14, 2014 he held his farewell speech as Professor at the University of St. Gallen.[7] Österle was editor-in-chief of Electronic Markets and a member of the editorial boards of other journals.[8] In March 2015 Österle received an honorary doctorate from the Wroclaw University of Economics.[9]

Besides his academic achievements, Österle founded in 1989 the consultancy company "The Information Management Group" (since 2007 a member of the S&T Group)[10] and the Business Engineering Institute St. Gallen AG in 2003.[11] In addition, Österle is founder and president of the board of directors of the Amiona AG[12] and a member of the supervisory board of the CDQ AG.[13]

Research areas

Research areas of Österle are business engineering, consumerization, independent living,[14] sourcing in the financial industry,[15] and corporate data quality.[16][17]

Selected publications

Books
Selected articles

References

  1. "Profile of Prof. em. Dr. Hubert Österle at the Institute of Information Management (IWI-HSG)". Retrieved August 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  2. "Institute of Information Management". Retrieved August 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  3. "Business Engineering Institute St. Gallen AG". Retrieved July 2011. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  4. "International Research Forum". Retrieved July 2011. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  5. "IWI-HSG". Retrieved July 2011. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  6. "Entrepreneurship at the Universitiy of St. Gallen". Retrieved July 2011. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  7. Abschiedsvorlesung Prof. Dr. Hubert Österle, May 14, 2014 at iwi.unisg.ch. Accessed 09. 2014
  8. "Editorial Team Electronic Markets". Retrieved July 2011. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  9. "Honorary Doctorate for Österle". Retrieved August 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  10. "S&T Group". Retrieved July 2011. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  11. "Business Engineering Institute St. Gallen AG". Retrieved July 2011. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  12. "Amonia AG St. Gallen". Retrieved August 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  13. "CDQ AG". Retrieved December 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  14. "Independent Living".Retrieved July 2011
  15. "Sourcing in the financial industry".
  16. "Corporate Data Quality - Prerequisite for Successful Business Models". Retrieved December 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  17. "Competence Center Corporate Data Quality (CC CDQ) at University of St. Gallen". Retrieved July 2011. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

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