BWI Business Administration Center

The BWI Business Administration Center at the ETH Zurich (formerly the Business Administration Institute of the ETH ) conducts business research as well as teaching and services for the ETH and commercial enterprises.

history

The private company for the promotion of the Institute for Business Administration (BWI) was founded on June 26, 1929, the BWI itself was opened on October 1, 1929, together with a library.

Today the BWI is part of the D-MTEC Management, Technology and Economics department.

Currently 650 companies and individual customers receive services from BWI every year. This does not include subscribers to io new management magazine.

research

The BWI's research in the areas of logistics , operations and supply chain management , global service management and service innovation is aimed at technology-intensive companies and deals with issues and challenges related to their value creation . The aim of the applied research at the BWI is to obtain generalizable recommendations for action for entrepreneurial decision-making on the basis of practice-relevant problems.

Management training

The "BWI Management Further Education" has been organizing seminars and workshops since 1931. Around 150 seminars with 400 seminar days are held each year. The publicly advertised seminars include 45 titles and come from the four subject areas of project management , leadership , supply chain management and management techniques. The in-house seminars are "in-house" standard seminars for companies in the machine industry, information and communication industry, medical technology, banks and insurance companies, chemicals / pharmaceuticals, public administration.

The BWI, which is important for the training of industrial engineers, took over the concepts it developed in the 1930s for the further training of executives on the one hand from the USA and Taylorism. On the other hand, after 1945 concepts from the Nazi war economy also played a role in the implementation of rationalization measures. For example, Eberhard Schmidt, professor of industrial engineering and production engineering and head of the BWI, was assistant director at the German weapons and ammunition factories in Berlin until 1937. Until 1944 he worked as a technical consultant at Messerschmidt AG in Augsburg, where forced labor was also used. From 1946 he worked in Switzerland. In 1948, Schmidt declared in a speech to the Association of Swiss Industrial Engineers: "What I saw and learned during the war in the management of highly rationalized large companies cannot be dismissed by pointing out that the unrestrained, unrestrained industrial activity of belligerent states, which is storming forward without hindrance, does not seem appropriate for comparison with the industry of this country, which works according to sound economic principles. Great things have been achieved there in terms of technical production [...]. "

Io new management magazine

The BWI is the publisher of the management journal “io new management”. The magazine was founded in 1932 as "Industrial Organization" (io). It appears 10 times a year, today published by Axel Springer Switzerland . According to WEMF (AG for Advertising Media Research Switzerland), the print run in 2008 was 4428 copies.

Erfa group

The Experience Group Production and Information Management ( ERFA Group PIM) is a working group of industry and the university and deals with the topics of production, logistics and information management. The aim of the Erfa Group PIM is to inform its members about trends and to promote the exchange of experiences.

Web links

• BWI Business Administration Center
• BWI Business Science Center, area of ​​logistics, operations and supply chain management
• BWI management training
• Department of D-MTEC Management, Technology and Economics
• Io new management magazine
• Erfa group production and information management

swell

• Annual Report 2009 / BWI Center for Industrial Management. Logistics, Operations, and Supply Chain Management
• IO new management: Journal for Business Science and Management Practice / ed. from the Center for Business Sciences at ETH Zurich and the HandelsZeitung publishing group. Volume 70 (2001) -
• Andreas Fasel: Integrate and separate. Company social policy in Switzerland from 1937 to the 1960s , in: Work - Movement - History , Issue I / 2018, pp. 76–91.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Fasel: Integrate and separate. Company social policy in Switzerland from 1937 to the 1960s , in: Work - Movement - History , Issue I / 2018, pp. 76–91, here pp. 80–81.