Helmut Krcmar

Helmut Krcmar (born December 16, 1954 in Hanau, Germany) is a German IS and Management scholar. Since 2020 he leads the Research Group Krcmar at the Faculty of Informatics, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. He is Founding Dean and Delegate Officer of the president for TUM Campus Heilbronn.He is Affiliate Member of the TUM School of Management. From 10/2010 to 09/2013 Helmut served as Dean, Faculty of Informatics. From 2016 to 2019 he was member of the TUM Senate and TUM Board of Trustees. From 07/2018 to 07/2020 he served as Vice Dean, TUM School of Management. Since 2003 he is Academic Director of the SAP University Competence Center @ TUM and Member of the Board of the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM). He is Co-founder and served until 2018 as Speaker of CeDoSIA, the interdisciplinary doctorate program of the Faculty of Informatics, TUM. From 2004-2007 he was Founding Director of TUM Executive Education and today is Academic Director of TUM EEC EMBA “Business and IT”.

He is Member of the Board and Chair of Research Committee of the Münchner Kreis, Member of the Board of the Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA), Senior Fellow and Co-founder of fortiss gGmbH (Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria for Software and Systems), as well as Senior Fellow at the German Research Institute for Public Administration. He is Co-founder and served until 2019 as Chairperson of the National eGovernment Competence Center. He is Founder of Information and Technologie Beratungsgesellschaft (ITM) und Co-founder of Retit GmbH, Qupe Gmbh and Tür and Tür Digitalfabrik gGmbH.

Helmut completed his undergraduate studies in Business Administrations at Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany in 1978 and received a Ph.D. in Business Administration in 1984 from the same institution under the supervision of August-Wilhelm Scheer. He has held positions as Post-Doctoral Fellow at the IBM Los Angeles Scientific Center, as Assistant Professor of IS at the Leonard Stern School of Business, NYU, and at Baruch College, CUNY.

From 1987 to 2002 he held the Chair for Information Systems, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany. At that time Helmut was the youngest Business Administration Professor in Germany. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences from 2000 to 2002 at the same university. From 2002 to 2020 he held the Chair for Information Systems, Faculty of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Helmut is a Senior Scholar and a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). From 2014 to 2015, he was President of the AIS. Since the inception of the AIS in 1995 he has been actively involved in AIS activities.

Research Interests

• Digital Transformation
• Information and Knowledge Management
• Platform-based Ecosystems
• Management of IT-based Service Systems
• Computer-supported Cooperative Work
• Information Systems for Government