Norbert Szyperski

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Norbert Szyperski (born September 27, 1931 in Berlin ; † May 17, 2016 in Cologne ) was a German business economist , business IT specialist and manager . He is considered to be one of the founders of business informatics in Germany.

biography

After receiving his doctorate in 1961 with Erich Kosiol at the University of Berlin under the title "On the problem of quantitative terminology in business administration" Szyperski received in 1963 the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship with subsequent research trip to the US as the German representative of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship -Programms to who joined a visiting professorship at the University of Florida at Gainesville . After his return and his habilitation in 1969 in Cologne ("Economic aspects of the implementation and implementation of business plans . A contribution to the business analysis of business policy") Szyperski accepted a professorship for general business administration and business planning from the University of Cologne in 1970 . Here he founded the “Business Institute for Organization and Automation ( BIFOA )” together with Erwin Grochla in 1963 . Szyperski held the Cologne chair until 1981.

Prior to that, Szyperski was appointed to the supervisory board of the Society for Mathematics and Data Processing in 1979 and in 1981 took over the chairmanship of this research institution, whose reorientation from more mathematical-theoretical to application-oriented engineering research fields he pushed. The internationally significant backlog of German computer science and information technology in the early 1980s prompted Szyperski, increased international cooperation, especially with the United States to seek, and to find new forms of institutionalization, as can be with his help in 1988 as the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley realized. As early as 1984, Szyperski had become the founding president of the sponsoring association for the German Research Network (DFN), as well as the founding president of the support group for start-up research .

Szyperski moved from university to industry in 1986 and became managing director of Mannesmann - Kienzle GmbH . The University of Cologne appointed him honorary professor in the same year . Since 1998, Szyperski has been chairman of the expert council in the EXIST program, which promotes business start-ups from science. Before his death, he headed the business research group Innovative Technologies at the university.

For more than 20 years, from 1971 to the end of 1991, Szyperski was editor of the leading German trade journal Wirtschaftsinformatik .

Until his death, Szyperski was a member of the board of directors of Oberon microsystems together with Niklaus Wirth .

In the spring of 2003, Szyperski founded the Sylter Runde - individual discussion groups on Sylt .

Szyperski was co-director of the BIFOA support association at the University of Cologne. He died after a short, serious illness on May 17, 2016 in Cologne.

research

Szyperski's research and work focuses mainly on the areas of business formation, start-up economics, business planning and innovative technologies.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • On the problem of quantitative terminology in business administration. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1962
  • (with Erwin Grochla ): Information Systems and Organizational Structure. Walter de Gruyter, 1975
  • (with Klaus Nathusius ): Information and Economy. Frankfurt: Campus-Verlag, 1975, ISBN 3-593-32084-3
  • (with Udo Winand ): Basic concepts of business planning. Stuttgart: Poeschel, 1980, ISBN 3-7910-9107-7
  • Interpretative structure modeling (ISM). Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1983, ISBN 3-528-03597-8
  • (with Klaus Nathusius): Problems of Entrepreneurship: A Business Analysis of Entrepreneurial Starting Conditions. Lohmar: Eul, 1999, ISBN 3-89012-706-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Ulrich Trottenberg at gfft-portal @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gfft-portal.de
  2. ↑ Obituary notice (faz.net)
  3. ↑ Eisenhower Fellowship website (in English)
  4. ^ Norbert Szyperski The ICSI Gazette , Spring 2014
  5. ^ Foreword from the EXIST Advisory Board . In: From the university to your own company: Ten years of EXIST (pdf, 3 MB)
  6. ↑ 15 years of EXIST (pdf)
  7. ↑ Dietrich Seibt (Ed.): Communication, Organization & Management: Results of BIFOA Research , 1995, p. 7
  8. ↑ https://www.gfft-portal.de/verein/lösungen/ehrenverbindungen/
personal data
SURNAME Szyperski, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business IT specialist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 2016
Place of death Cologne