August-Wilhelm Scheer
August-Wilhelm Scheer (born July 27, 1941 in Lübbecke , Westphalia) is the former chairman of the supervisory board of IDS Scheer AG and former director of the Institute for Information Systems at Saarland University in Saarbrücken . He is the sole owner and managing director of Scheer Holding in Saarbrücken.
Life
Scheer was founded in 1972 at the University of Hamburg with a thesis on cost and capacity-based replacement policy in stochastic failing production doctorate . In 1974 he completed his habilitation, also in Hamburg, with a thesis on project management.
The focus of his research is information and business process management . As part of his research, he founded the spin-off of his institute, IDS Scheer AG , in 1984 and imc AG in 1996. He is the main shareholder and chairman of the supervisory board of both companies. He created the scientific basis for the ARIS concept. The ARIS toolset based on this was developed and sold by IDS Scheer.
Scheer was a member of the supervisory board of SAP AG several times . Scheer is also the publisher of the specialist journal Information Management & Consulting , now IM + io . From 2007 to 2011 he was president of the industry association Bitkom . As an entrepreneur and protagonist of the federal government's future projects “Industry 4.0” and “Smart Service World”, he works on shaping the digital economy, including as co-chair of the Digital Summit's platform for digitization in education and science .
Scheer has been the sole shareholder of Scheer Holding since 2010. Start-ups with the participation of Scheer Holding are the companies IS Predict, Okinlab, Backes SRT, Inspirient and Fanomena. The holding company has a majority stake in IMC AG.
During the Saarland state election campaign in 1999, Peter Müller presented Scheer as his preferred candidate for the post of Minister of Economics. Scheer did not take office after the CDU's election victory . Instead, from the end of 1999 to 2009, he held the post of "Commissioner of the Prime Minister for the areas of innovation, technology and research".
Scheer is considered an accomplished and respected baritone saxophonist ; he regularly performs in public with various jazz combos . Scheer promotes culture, especially jazz, and science with the help of the August Wilhelm Scheer Foundation for Science and Art, founded in 2001 . Since 2001 the foundation has financed a professorship for jazz at the Saar University of Music . It is also the sponsor of the August Wilhelm Scheer Institute for Digital Products and Processes, which was founded in 2014 to promote application-oriented research transfer.
On November 10, 2006, Scheer officially retired from Saarland University . His doctoral and post-doctoral students include leading German business IT specialists such as Jörg Becker , Helmut Krcmar , Peter Loos and Oliver Thomas .
Further activities and honorary positions
- 2003ff. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Technical University of Chemnitz
- 2004ff. Member of the executive committee of the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media e. V. Bitkom
- 2004–2005 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT)
- 2005ff. Member of the Senate of the Fraunhofer Society
- 2005ff. Member of the supervisory board of the Saarbrücker Zeitung
- 2006–2008 member of the Council for Innovation and Growth of the Federal Government.
- 2007ff. Vice President of the Federation of German Industries. Federation of German Industries
- 2007ff. Member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Messe AG, Hanover
- 2007ff. Jury member at TOP 100 - benchmarking project for the most innovative medium-sized companies
Honors / awards
- 2001 Saarland Order of Merit of the Prime Minister
- 2001 Honorary doctorate from the University of Hohenheim
- 2002 Honorary Senator of the Saarland University of Music and Theater
- 2003 Awarded the Philip Morris Research Prize
- 2003 Entrepreneur of the Year in the "Information Technology" category (award sponsor: Ernst & Young)
- 2005 GI Fellow of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (GI)
- 2005 Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2005 Erich Gutenberg Prize of the Erich Gutenberg Working Group eV (EGA)
- 2010 Design Science Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of St. Gallen
- 2011 honorary member of the Society for the Promotion of Research Transfer
- 2011 TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor at the Technical University of Munich
- 2012 Dr. Kausch price
- 2017 induction into the Hall of Fame of German Research
Works (selection)
August-Wilhelm Scheer is the editor of several book series and magazines as well as the author of numerous books and magazine articles. His books have been translated into eight languages.
- Production control (business research results, volume 9). Gabler, Wiesbaden 1978, ISBN 3-409-30542-4
- Sales forecasts . Springer, Heidelberg 1983, ISBN 3540129340
- Business Informatics. Reference models for industrial business processes . Springer, Heidelberg 1988, ISBN 354050060X
- ARIS. From business process to application system . 4th edition, Springer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3540658238
- ARIS. Modeling methods, metamodels, applications . 3rd edition, Springer, Berlin 1998,
- Business process modeling . 3rd edition, Springer, Berlin 2000.
- with Alexander Köppen: Consulting knowledge for strategy, process and IT consulting . 2nd edition, Springer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3540421181
- with Hans-Jörg Bullinger: Service Engineering. Development and design of innovative services . Springer, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3540253246
- with Öner Güngöz, Christian Seel: "E-Government: Strategies, Processes, Technologies, Study and Market Overview." Springer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3540034382
- Enterprise 4.0. From the disruptive business model to the automation of business processes. AWSi Publishing, Saarbrücken 2018, ISBN 9783981991604
- Literature by and about August-Wilhelm Scheer in the catalog of the German National Library
Web links
- August-Wilhelm Scheer in the catalog of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW)
- Scheer plays the saxophone at the ProcessWorld Conference 2010 in Berlin
- Scheers Advances BPM Assessment homepage
- Literature on August-Wilhelm Scheer in the Saarland Bibliography
- Official blog of August-Wilhelm Scheer
- Works by and about August-Wilhelm Scheer in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ IM + io June 2018 - IM + io. Retrieved on August 2, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Editor: BMBF LS5 Internet editorship: Platform "Digitization in Education and Science" - BMBF Digital Future. Retrieved August 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Curriculum Vitae ( Memento from March 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ CD publication Well, You Needn't with Werner Seifert , Thomas Siffling , Chris Perschke, Thomas Heidepriem and Michael Ehret , 2005
- ↑ AWS Institute for Digital Products and Processes (AWSi). Retrieved on August 2, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Choice of the three best: by the TOP 100 jury. Compamedia GmbH, accessed on September 3, 2018 .
- ^ August-Wilhelm Scheer Recognized for Life's Work | ARIS BPM Community. Accessed March 7, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Honorary Members. Society for the Promotion of Research Transfer eV (GFFT), accessed on September 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Awards for research transfer in the economy for two IT pioneers from Saarland. In: innovations-report. March 18, 2011, accessed January 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Technical University of Munich (TUM) awards Prof. Dr. August-Wilhelm Scheer the honorary title "Distinguished Affiliated Professor" - Scheer Group GmbH - press release. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scheer, August-Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German business IT specialist, chairman of the supervisory board and institute director at Saarland University |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübbecke , Westphalia |