Professor Dr. habil. Heiko Gewald

Research Professor of Information Management

Director of the Institute for Digital Innovation (IDI)

Phone: +49 731 /9762-1521

Location: Main Building A, A.1.55

Faculty:
In­form­a­tion Man­age­ment
Address:
Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences
Wileystraße 1
89231 Neu-Ulm
Professor Dr. habil. Heiko Gewald

Teaching

Bachelor

 

  • Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre (ger.)
  • Anwendungssysteme im Gesundheitswesen (ger.)
  • Dienstleistungsmanagement (ger.)
  • IT-Anwendungssysteme (ger.)
  • Business Process Modeling (engl.)
  • Business Information Systems (engl.)

Master

  • Introduction to Information Systems Research
  • Consulting
  • Project management
  • IT-Management
  • IT-Controlling

Vita

  • 2025 Habilitation in computer science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
  • 2014 Appointed to the research professorship for information management at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences
  • 2010 Appointed professor of information management at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences
  • 2008 to 2010 Senior manager at the international strategy consulting firm Oliver Wyman in the London and Frankfurt offices
  • 2003 to 2006 Doctoral scholarship from IBM Deutschland GmbH
    • Doctorate at the eFinanceLab of the Universities of Frankfurt and Darmstadt
    • Topic: “The Risks and Benefits of Business Process Outsourcing - An Empirical Study of the German Banking Industry”
  • 2001 to 2008 Partner in the management consultancy division of IBM Germany - Global Business Services
  • From 1998 to 2001 Principal Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consultancy
  • 1992 to 1998 Studied business administration at the Universities of Bamberg, Edinburgh, and Los Angeles (UCLA) 
    Focus areas:
    • Finance
    • Corporate management and controlling
    • System development and database applications
  • 1990 to 1992 Trained as a bank clerk at Städtische Sparkasse Bremerhaven

Member of Associations

  • Association for Information Systems (AIS)
  • German Association for Informatics, Digital Health Working Group
  • Alumni E-Finance Lab, Frankfurt
  • Foundation for Science of the Sparkassen Finanzgruppe

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Research

Research Areas

  • User behavior in the application of business information systems
  • Information management in healthcare
  • Outsourcing
  • IT strategy
  • Project management

Research projects

Current and completed research projects can be found on the website of the Institute for Digitale Innovation (IDI)

 

Research Insitute

IDI - Institute for Digitale Innovation

Thesis Topics

Open topics and completed work can be found on the website of the Institute for Digitale Innovation (IDI)