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Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Dipl.-Phys.) Marcus Birkenkrahe

E-Mail: msb@hwr-berlin.de

Professur: Professur für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insbesondere Betriebliche Anwendungssoftware

Fachbereich: Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Fachgebiet: Wirtschaftsinformatik (Business Information Systems)

 

 

English Summary
Marcus Speh Birkenkrahe is Professor of Business Information Systems (esp. Application Software) at the Berlin School of Economics. His current research areas are: knowledge management, aesthetics of information architectures, and digital lifestyle and learning communities. Prior to his academic appointment, he participated in the development of the World Wide Web, worked as an executive for Royal Dutch Shell and Accenture in the UK, and as a visiting professor at the University of Auckland Business School (NZ).

 

Wissenschaftlicher und beruflicher Werdegang

  • Studies of physics and mathematics in Hamburg, Munich and Delft (NL) – Ph.D.
  • Post-Doc at research institute DESY-Zeuthen, Berlin
  • Chairman of the Board, Globewide Network Academy, Inc., TX (USA)
  • Senior Internet Architect, Director of Knowledge Management, Accenture, London, UK
  • Senior Strategist; Global Knowledge Manager, Shell International, London, UK
  • Visiting Professor (Knowledge Management) University of Auckland Business School,Neuseeland
  • Partner, Executive Coaching, Changepartnership GmbH, Berlin

Praxisschwerpunkte

  • Knowledge and Information Management
  • E-Learning
  • Executive and Organisational Development
  • Change Management
  • Systems theory

Internationale u.a. Kontakte

  • Wide network of industry contacts across Europe and the USA
  • Academic contacts to University of Auckland (NZ) and Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia)
  • Contacts to the European Commission, Brussels, and to the UNESCO, Paris
  • Contacts to journalists and editors of academic and industry journals
  • Contacts to the Business Angel Club community (Berlin and Brandenburg)

Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen

  • „Best Article 2002“ in the University of Auckland Business Review, Auckland, NZ.
  • „Best Campus-Wide Information System on the Web“ and „Best Online Course on the Web“ (Organisational Committee of the 1st World-Wide Web Conference, CERN).
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London (UK).

Kooperationsbeziehungen

  • Macquarie Institute for Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  • University of Auckland Business School, Auckland, New Zealand

Expertin/Experte für

  • Knowledge Management,
  • Executive Coaching,
  • Complex Adaptive Systems,
  • Digital Communities

Schwerpunkte in der Lehre

  • Knowledge Management Systems
  • Business Process Management Tools
  • Web-based information systems
  • Internet / Digital communities

Forschungsprojekte und -gebiete

  • Knowledge Management
  • Aesthetics of Information Architectures
  • Organisational Constellations
  • Digital Lifestyle and Learning Communities

Geplante Vorhaben

  • On the Sublime in Information Architectures
  • Organisational constellations as a Leadership Transformation Tool

Ausgewählte, aktuelle Publikationen

  • System constellations as a tool supporting organisational learning and change processes, Int. J. Learning and Change (2008), to appear. Artikel lesen
  • Reif für die Insel - schlanke IT-Lösungen machen Unternehmen fit, mit: A. Benz (FHW), online unter www.odww.net. ISSN 1867-1225. Hamburg, October 2008. Artikel lesen
  • The Public Voice: Managing a Pan-European Community, in: KM Review, vol. 8 no. 6 (2006), mit: Richard McDermott, Elizabeth Lank und Paul Iske.
  • No Wings Without Roots – What To Do When A Great Deal Fails? Managing Transactions With System Constellations, in: The Outsourcing Project, Special Report, Montgomery Europe Research, Juni 2004.
  • Treasury Operations in a Large Multinational as a Complex Evolving System – Dialogue on Using Natural Experiments in Complex Evolving Systems, in: Complexity Theory and the Management of Networks, Imperial College Press, London, Juni 2004, mit E. Mitleton-Kelly (LSE).
  • „How Large Multi-Nationals Manage Their Knowledge“, in: University of Auckland Business Review, vol. 4 no. 2 (2002) S. 11-15, September 2002.
  • Turtles all the way down and all the way up: the Future of Knowledge Management in the New Economy (II), in: Knowledge Management, vol. 4 issue 5 (2001) S. 26-29, Februar 2001.
  • Turtles all the way down and all the way up: the Future of Knowledge Management in the New Economy (I), in: Knowledge Management, vol. 4 issue 4 (2000) S. 31-34, Dezember 2000.
  • The Seven Spiritual Laws of Successful Knowledge Management, in: Knowledge Management, vol.4, issue 3 (2000) 15-19, November 2000.
  • Building Knowledge Communities, in: Petroleum Review Special Supplement (“Lifetime Learning”), Februar 1998, S. 16-17, 1998.

Ausgewählte Themen von Abschlussarbeiten

  • Internes Kommunikationsmanagement zwischen Front- und Backoffice bei Kabel Deutschland
  • Internetbasierte Beschaffungsplattformen – eine Diskussion von Potentialen und Grenzen bei KMUs
  • Maßnahmen zur Lösung altersstruktureller Probleme bei den BSR mittels Wissensmanagement
  • Improving Knowledge Sharing on the Job in a Customer Service Organisation
  • Integrationsstrategien für EAI mit SAP XI in einem multinationalen Fachverlag