Prof. Dr. Jörg Meißner

Department of Business and Economics
Professorship for Application Systems and Quantitative Methods
Specialist area: Business Information Systems
Professor

T: +49 (0)30 30877-1137
E: meiszner@hwr-berlin.de

Visitor's address
Schöneberg Campus
Building B
Room 349
Badensche Straße 50-51
10825 Berlin

Postal address
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin
Schöneberg Campus
Badensche Straße 52
10825 Berlin
Germany

Academic and Professional Career

• 1971: Diploma in Engineering
• 1974: Diploma in Business Education
• 1978: Doctorate in Engineering
• Project leader at IVU (Traffic Technologies) Berlin (2 years)
• Research assistant in the IT Faculty at the Technical University of Berlin. (5 years)
• Management assistant at SEL Berlin (2 years)
• Controller at Berlin-Consult (2 years)
• Professor of Business Administration at the Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences in Dieburg (5 years)
• Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Management at the University of Malta (1 semester)
• Since 1.2.1986 Professor of Business Information Systems at the FHW Berlin / Berlin School of Economics and Law

Key Aspects of practise

• Consultancy work for data processing application projects, particularly in the industry, logistics and transport sectors, and in the area of management support

International contacts (e. g.)

• Some contacts with universities and institutions abroad as visiting professor or via research and consultancy projects

Awards/Honours

• FGSV – a research association for roads and traffic
• VWI – Association of German Industrial Engineers
• IVU Traffic Technologies AG
• HEUREKA Foundation (optimising traffic and transport)

Expert for

• Computer-aided application of quantitative methods for purpose of checking, analysing, forecasting, planning and optimisation
• Management support systems

Key Aspects in Teaching

• Quantitative data analysis
• Statistics
• Operations research
• Management support systems

Research Projects and Fields

• Management support systems, particularly controlling and information systems
• Decision support systems and executive information systems
• Potential for integration of quantitative methods and business information systems

Planned projects

• Textbook on Statistics - understanding and making meaningful use of methods

Selected dissertation topics

• Methods for ascertaining the information requirements of senior managers: systematic description with case studies
• Board of management information system on the basis of a multi-dimensional data base
• Business plan for a logistics company
• Short-term forecasts for operational corporate planning
• Needs-oriented reporting for management: theoretical analysis and empirical study using the case study of R&D controlling at Schering AG