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Prof. Norbert Gronau will be presenting challenges, trends, and best practices in learn and knowledge management. Thereby, he will focusing on the value of process oriented knowledge management and measures to approach this topic. Major aspects which are addressed within this are the impact of new technologies, knowledge flows and conversions as well as the identification of qualification needs and realisation approaches to qualify the employees. The presentation will end with recommendations for action.

Biography

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Norbert Gronau (born 1964) studied engineering and business administration at Berlin University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 for a framework on a strategic management information system for the production management at the department of Computer Science at Berlin University of Technology. Until March 2000, he was head of the self-founded research group Industrial applications of business information systems at the Institute of Business Information Systems of the Berlin University of Technology.

There he also has finished his habilitation thesis on sustainable frameworks for architectures of industrial information systems. In summer 2000 he was Deputy Professor for Business Information Systems at the University of Oldenburg. From October 2000 until March 2004 he was full professor for Business  Information systems in Oldenburg (Lower Saxony). Currently, he holds the Chair of Business Informatics, esp. Processes and Systems at the University of Potsdam, Germany. His main research activities concentrate on the areas of Knowledge Management and Business Process Management.

Prof. Gronau is editor of the scientific journal Industrie Management – Journal for industrial business processes and co-founder of the journal PPS Management – (now Productivity Management) journal of production and logistics. He is author of more than 90 papers and author resp. editor of several books.

Additionally, he is lecturer for Knowledge Management at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Since 2007 Prof. Gronau is a regular member of the German Academy of Technical Sciences (acatech).