“Developer of our digital future”: Helmut Krcmar from Kranzberg is honored with the Federal Order of Merit

Special award for Helmut Krcmar from Kranzberg: The science IT specialist was honored with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic.

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- Helmut Krcmar from Kranzberg has now received a high degree of recognition: State Minister Bernd Sibler honored the business IT specialist with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his outstanding work in the fields of education and science.

Prof. Dr. Helmut Krcmar held the chair for business informatics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) until the end of September 2020. For Science Minister Sibler, he is “an essential developer of our digital future”. In his laudation, the minister emphasized: "You have been driving the internationalization of German business informatics for decades with your drive and commitment." Prof. Krcmar uses his concentrated IT competence not only professionally, but also for extensive voluntary work. "With your wealth of knowledge and experience, you are a highly sought-after member of numerous specialist and advisory committees - with an international sphere of activity." The list of institutions and groups that Kranzberger supports and would lead as a board member is impressive.

Krcmar sets standards at TUM

This includes, for example, the Digital Summit of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the two Fraunhofer Institutes for Experimental Software Engineering and Applied and Integrated Security, the National E-Government Competence Center, the Münchner Kreis - transnational association for communication research and the Open Source Business Alliance, which is Europe's largest network of companies and organizations that develop and use open source software.

Krcmar also set standards as a professor of business informatics at TUM: he took first place in the WirtschaftsWoche 2019 ranking for the title of the strongest research professor in business administration.

His research areas are digital transformation, information and knowledge management, platform-based ecosystems, management of IT-based services and e-government.

"You recognized as early as the 1990s that digitization has the potential to fundamentally transform our economy and society," emphasized Sibler.

"In order for this to succeed, we need bright minds today and in the future to accompany this process."

Support for young scientists

As a university professor, Krcmar passes on his skills and supports the next generation of scientists in their advancement, says Sibler. To date, Krcmar has led more than 100 doctoral students to their dissertation, and his textbook “Information Management”, published in 1996, is a standard work for business informatics students. In addition, he set up the elite course “Finance and Innovation Management” of the Bavarian Elite Network at TUM.

Since 2003, Krcmar has been the academic director of the SAP University Competence Center, which has since developed into the SAP University Competence Center.

Sibler praises: “Your academic, university-political and entrepreneurial achievements are diverse and of great importance.

I am very proud that you have been part of the Bavarian scientific community since you moved to TUM in 2002. ”

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