Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Norbert Gronau

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing habil. Norbert Gronau studied mechanical engineering and business administration at the Technical University of Berlin (TU). In 1994, he received his doctorate from the Department of Computer Science (TU) on the subject of "Conception of a strategy-oriented management information system for decision support in production management". Up to and including March 2000, he headed the teaching and research group Production-Oriented Information Systems at the TU Berlin, and in October he habilitated on the subject of "Sustainable Architectures of Industrial Information Systems in Organizational Change". Following his appointment to Oldenburg, Prof. Gronau headed the Department of Information Systems at the University of Oldenburg from 2000 to 2004. In 2004, he was appointed to a C4 professorship at the University of Potsdam and has since held the Chair of Information Systems, Processes and Systems, including Electronic Government.

Prof. Gronau is a research fellow and visiting lecturer in knowledge management at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He initiated the Potsdam Consulting Group (PCG) in 2008, which has been operating under the name Potsdam Consulting Advisory GmbH since 2016. Prof. Gronau was also involved in several internet start-ups on the subject of knowledge management and sales acceleration.