Hubert Österle
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(2011)
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24 June 1949 Dornbirn, Austria |
| Known for | Professor of business and information systems engineering |
Hubert Österle (born June 24, 1949 in Dornbirn, Austria) is Emeritus Professor of Business and Information Systems, former director of the Institute of Information Management at the University of St. Gallen, and president of the board of directors of the Business Engineering Institute St. Gallen AG.
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. 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. In 1997 he initiated the executive MBA program "business engineering" at the University of St. Gallen. May 14, 2014 he held his farewell speech as Professor 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 an honorary doctorate from the Wroclaw University of Economics.
Besides his academic achievements, Österle founded in 1989 the consultancy company "The Information Management Group" (since 2007 a member of the S&T 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.
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