Hubert Österle
Hubert Österle is Professor emeritus of Business and Information Systems, former director of the Institute of Information Management at the University of St. Gallen, and founder of several enterprises.Career
Hubert 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 with his dissertation “Computerunterstütztes Entscheidungstraining”. After working as a consultant at IBM Germany, Österle completed his postdoctoral work 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. In 1997 he initiated the executive MBA program "Business Engineering" at the University of St. Gallen. Österle was editor-in-chief of Electronic Markets and a member of the editorial boards of other journals. In March 2015 Österle received a 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, consumerization, independent living, sourcing in the financial industry,, corporate data quality and life engineering.Selected publications
;Books
- ,Springer, Wiesbaden 2020.
- ', epubli, Berlin 2015.
- ', Wiley, Hoboken/NJ 2010.
- ', FAZ, Frankfurt, 2006.
- ', Springer, Berlin 2004.
- ', Springer, Berlin 2003.
- ', Springer, Berlin 2000.
- ', Springer, Heidelberg 2000.
- ', Springer, Berlin 2000.
- ', Vieweg, Wiesbaden 1996.
- ' Springer, Heidelberg 1995.
- ', Wiley, Hoboken/NJ 1994.
- Unternehmensführung und Informationssystem: Der Ansatz des St. Galler Informationssystem-Managements., Teubner, Stuttgart 1991.
- ' Hanser, München 1980.
;Selected articles
