Welcome!

I am working as a consultant with Gartner Consulting in Germany. Prior to my current affiliation, I have held positions as Business Process Manager with Altana Pharma (Nycomed), Consulting Manager with The Information Management Group (IMG), a Swiss consulting firm, the Viktoria Institute in Göteborg, Sweden, and the School of Business, Economics & Law at Göteborg University. All in all, I have around 15 years of working experience in academia, consulting and industry. You can learn more about what I have done in my research, teaching and consulting career in the different sections of this site.

The information you can find here includes publications, lecturing material and slides on a variety of management and IT related topics, among them BPM, quality management, organizational change, etc. I appreciate any kind of comment or feedback, so please feel free to contact me via e-mail, preferably in German, English or Swedish.

Please note that this web presence is not an official Gartner site and that the content presented here not necessarily reflects the opinion of my employer.

Kai Simon

 Kai A. Simon

News

Events and more

I will be giving a keynote presentation on Enterprise Information Management at the IIR EIM conference in June 2008.

March 2008: I have published a short note on the "Glocalization" of IT governance in the Analyst Corner of the German IT weekly Computerwoche.

A short chapter on BPM in Pharmaceutical R&D at ALTANA Pharma (Nycomed) has been published in the 2007 edition of the BPM and Workflow Management Handbook.

Important Note

RIP Informatics: The old Department of Informatics at Göteborg University, my original Swedish alma mater, is no more. It has been absorbed by the IT University a joint venture between Göteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology. Unfortunately, this means that I also hade to give up my mail address and web site there, which went online in 1994. Made me sad, somehow.

Blog - but not frequently updated

You can visit it here: http://www.instant-science.blogspot.com/. Or, click here, to open it in a new window. Unfortunately, I do not find too much time to update it on a frequent basis.

Cool

I found that some of the old web pages still exist on the Viktoria Institute's server. If you want to dig into the history of the institute, go here.

Leavitt diamond
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