Georg Herzwurm

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Georg Herzwurm (born August 30, 1961 in Düren ) is a German economist. He is professor of business informatics at the University of Stuttgart .

Life

After studying business administration at the University of Cologne from 1983 to 1988 , Herzwurm received his doctorate in 1992 at the chair for computer science at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences in the field of computer-aided software engineering with Paul Schmitz. In 1998 he qualified as a professor at the chair for business informatics system development at the University of Cologne with Werner Mellis on the subject of "Systematic derivation of a set of instruments for customer-oriented software product development".

From 2000 to 2003, Herzwurm held the professorship for business informatics, especially information systems in the service sector at the Technical University of Dresden . Since April 2003 he has been Head of Department VIII for General Business Administration and Business Informatics II at the Business Administration Institute of the University of Stuttgart .

Scientific activities

Herzwurm's main focus is customer orientation, customer -oriented product development (software customer value management with quality function deployment ).

Georg Herzwurm has been a board member and director of the “Management of Global Manufacturing Networks” cluster of the GSaME graduate school (Graduate School of Excellence advanced Manufacturing Engineering) in Stuttgart since 2013.

Digitization is leading to a change in the software market in the direction of platform economy with new business models and new opportunities to awaken and satisfy customer needs. Inspired by this, the new scientific discipline of "Software-Intensive Business (SiB)" was founded in 2018 as part of a seminar at the Leibniz Center for Computer Science in Dagstuhl with the help of Herzwurm.

further activities

As a founding member and spokesman of the QFD Institute Germany and director of the International Council for QFD (ICQFD), Herzwurm is a pioneer in Germany for the application of Quality Function Deployment in software development. Among his publications on Quality Function Deployment there is a. the first German book on the application of the method in software development.

Herzwurm worked early on in the development of national and international standards and the adaptation of the ISO 9000 series of standards to the software industry. He made technical contributions with regard to the linking of requirements and test management in software development and quality-oriented software management. He is a member of the standards committee for quality management, statistics and certification bases (NQSZ) of the German Institute for Standardization eV (DIN) and of ISO / TC 69 / SC 8 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). He acts as the spokesman for the WI-MAW (Management of Application Development and Maintenance) expert committee of the Gesellschaft für Informatik eV (GI) and is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Software Business.

Herzwurm also holds a position as Member of the Advisory Board in the establishment of the Quality Management Research Institute of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (China).

Awards

Due to his services to the further development and promotion of Quality Function Deployment , he was awarded the international Akao Prize in 2000.

In 2001, Herzwurm was awarded honorary membership in the Iran Institute of Industrial Engineering by the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran (Iran) due to his commitment in the form of guest lectures and QFD seminars for Iranian companies.

Selected publications

  • G. Herzwurm, W. Mellis, D. Stelzer: Software Process Improvement via ISO 9000? Results of two surveys among European software houses. In: Software Process - Improvement and Practice. No. 2, 1996, pp. 192-210.
  • W. Mellis, G. Herzwurm, D. Stelzer: TQM of software development: With process improvement, customer orientation and change management to successful software. Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1998.
  • G. Herzwurm, S. Schockert, W. Mellis: Joint Requirements Engineering. QFD for Rapid Customer-Focused Software and Internet Development. Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 2000
  • G. Herzwurm: Customer-oriented software development. Wiesbaden 2001.
  • G. Herzwurm, W. Pietsch: Management of IT products. Heidelberg 2009.
  • G. Herzwurm, W. Pietsch, S. Schockert, T. Tauterat: QFD for Cloud Computing. In: Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Quality Function Deployment. Tokyo 2012.
  • N. Pelzl, A. Helferich, G. Herzwurm: Value-added networks of German cloud providers. In: S. Strahringer (Ed.): Business models of the IT industry, HMD-Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, HMD. No. 292, Volume 50, 2013
  • G. Herzwurm, N. Pelzl, B. Krams: QFD and Cloud Computing: A Survey on the Prioritization of Security Requirements for Cloud Computing. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on QFD 2013. Santa Fe 2013
  • F. Schönhofen, S. Schockert, G. Herzwurm: ISO16355 in software-intensive business. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software-Intensive Business: Start-ups. Ecosystems and Platforms. SiBW 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pekka Abrahamsson, Jan Bosch, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Alexander Mädche: Software Business, Platforms, and Ecosystems: Fundamentals of Software Production Research (Dagstuhl Seminar 18182) . In: Dagstuhl Reports . tape 8 , no. 4 , 2018, ISSN  2192-5283 , p. 164–198 , doi : 10.4230 / DagRep.8.4.164 ( dagstuhl.de [accessed on February 28, 2019]).
  2. ↑ QFD Institute: 2016 ISQFD speaker: Georg Herzwurm. In: www.qfdi.org. Retrieved October 12, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Management Committee - Technical Committee Management of Application Development and Maintenance. (No longer available online.) In: fa-wi-maw.gi.de. Archived from the original on August 23, 2016 ; accessed on October 12, 2016 .
  4. ^ Akao Prize for Excellence in QFD. In: www.qfdi.org. Retrieved October 12, 2016 .
  5. ↑ QFD-ID: QFD in Iran. In: old.qfd-id.de. Retrieved October 12, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Heartworm, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren