Hubert Österle (born 24 June 1949, Dornbirn) is an Austrian academic, and Professor Emeritus of Business and Information Systems,^[1] and former director of the Institute of Information Management at the University of St. Gallen.^[2]

Hubert Österle studied business administration at the University of Innsbruck and the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz. He obtained his PhD at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1973 with his dissertation “Computerunterstütztes Entscheidungstraining” (computer assisted decision training).^[3] After working as a consultant at IBM Germany, Österle completed his postdoctoral work (habilitation) on the "Design of information systems" at the Technical University of Dortmund in 1980.^{[citation needed]}

In 1980 Österle became full professor of business and information systems engineering at the University of St. Gallen. In 1989, he founded the Institute of Information Management.^[4] In 1997 he initiated the executive MBA program "Business Engineering" at the University of St. Gallen.^[5] Österle was editor-in-chief of Electronic Markets and a member of the editorial boards of other journals. In March 2015 Österle received an honorary doctorate from the Wroclaw University of Economics.^[6]

Besides his academic achievements, Österle founded in 1989 the consultancy company "The Information Management Group"^[7] and the Business Engineering Institute St. Gallen AG in 2003.^[8] In addition, Österle is founder and president of the board of directors of the Amiona AG^[9] and a member of the supervisory board of the CDQ AG.^[10]

Research areas of Österle are business engineering, consumerization, independent living,^[11] sourcing in the financial industry,^[12] corporate data quality^[13][14] and life engineering.^[15]

Books

• Life Engineering: Machine Intelligence and Quality of Life, Springer, Wiesbaden 2020.
• Corporate Data Quality: Prerequisite for Successful Business Models. (with Boris Otto), epubli, Berlin 2015.
• IT-Driven Business Models (with Henning Kagermann and John M. Jordan), Wiley, Hoboken/NJ 2010.
• Geschäftsmodelle 2010: Wie CEOs Unternehmen transformieren (with Henning Kagermann), FAZ, Frankfurt, 2006.
• Real-Time Business: Lösungen, Bausteine und Potentiale des Business Networking (with Rainer Alt), Springer, Berlin 2004.
• Customer Knowledge Management: Kundenwissen erfolgreich einsetzen (with Lutz M. Kolbe and Walter Brenner), Springer, Berlin 2003.
• Business Engineering: Auf dem Weg zum Unternehmen im Informationszeitalter. (with Robert Winter), Springer, Berlin 2000 (2nd edition, 2003).
• Business Networking: Shaping Collaboration between Enterprises (with Elgar Fleisch and Rainer Alt), Springer, Heidelberg 2000 (2nd edition, 2001).
• Customer Relationship Management in der Praxis. (with Volker Bach), Springer, Berlin 2000.
• Enabling Systematic Business Change: Integrated Methods and Software Tools for Business Process Redesign. (with Leo Brecht and Thomas Hess), Vieweg, Wiesbaden 1996.
• Business in the Information Age: Heading for new Processes. Springer, Heidelberg, 1995.
• Total Information Systems Management: A European Approach (with Walter Brenner and Konrad Hilbers), Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1994.
• Unternehmensführung und Informationssystem: Der Ansatz des St. Galler Informationssystem-Managements. (with Walter Brenner and Konrad Hilbers), Teubner, Stuttgart, 1991 (2nd edition, 1992).
• Entwurf betrieblicher Informationssysteme, Hanser, München 1980.

Selected articles

• Towards an electronic marketplace for bricks-and-mortar services (with Peter Schenkel and Philipp Osl), Acis 2013 Proceedings (2013)
• Toward a functional reference model for master data quality management (with Boris Otto and Kai Hüner), Information Systems and e-Business Management (2012)
• Product data quality in supply chains: the case of Beiersdorf (with Kai Hüner, Andreas Schierning, and Boris Otto), Electronic Markets (2011)
• Collaborative management of business metadata (with Kai Hüner and Boris Otto), International Journal of Information Management (2011)
• Memorandum on design-oriented information system research Archived 2012-03-27 at the Wayback Machine (with Jörg Becker, Ulrich Frank, Thomas Hess, Dimitris Karagiannis, Helmut Krcmar, Peter Loos, Peter Mertens, Andreas Oberweis, and Elmar J. Sinz), European Journal of Information Systems (2010)
• Management of the Master Data Lifecycle: A Framework for Analysis (with Martin Ofner, Kevin Straub, and Boris Otto), Journal of Enterprise Information Management (2004)

• Abschiedsvorlesung Prof. Dr. Hubert Österle, May 14, 2014 at iwi.unisg.ch (in German)