Profile

Professional career

• 02/1992 - 07/1995
  Research Assistant, Institute of Information Management, University of St.Gallen
• 08/1995 - 09/1996
  Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, USA
• 02/1997 - 11/1998
  Senior Consultant, Roland Berger, Düsseldorf
• 12/1998 - 08/2005
  Project Manager, Institute of Information Management, University of St.Gallen
• 11/2004 - 11/2006
  Assistant Professor, University of St.Gallen
• since 07/2005
  Full Professor, Information Systems Institute, Leipzig University

Education

• 10/1987 - 12/1991
  Master in Business Administration (Dipl.-Kfm.) with major in information systems, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 02/1992 - 02/1997
  Doctoral thesis (Dr. oec. HSG) with summa cum laude, University of St.Gallen
• 11/1998 - 11/2004
  Postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation) in information systems, University of St.Gallen

Panel Memberships

• since 02/2012
  Editor-in-Chief, Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business (EM)
• 01/2013 - 03/2022
  Associate Editor, Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE)
• 10/2016 - 09/2019
  Vice Dean, Faculty for Economics and Management Science
• since 04/2017
  Board Member, Social CRM Research Center e.V. (SCRC), Leipzig
• 05/2017 - 04/2019
  Deputy chairman of the section Business Information Systems (WKWI) in the German Academic Association of Business Research (VHB)
• 05/2019 - 04/2021
  Chairman of the section Business Information Systems (WKWI) in the German Academic Association of Business Research (VHB)
• since 11/2020
  Steering Board Member, Journal of Smart Tourism
• since 02/2021
  Spokesman of the Board, Die Wirtschaftsinformatik (Die WI)
• 10/2022 - 03/2024
  Vice Dean, Faculty for Economics and Management Science
• since 04/2024
  Dean, Faculty for Economics and Management Science
• 02/2006 - 12/2013
  Thesis committee member: Dr. Jochen Hennig (Uni St.Gallen, 2007), Dr. Stefan Reitbauer (Uni St.Gallen, 2008), Dr. Andreas Lassmann (Uni Leipzig, 2008), Dr. Andrej Werner (Uni Leipzig, 2008), Dr. Tobias Vogel (Uni St.Gallen, 2009), Dr. Christian Riege (Uni St.Gallen, 2010), Dr. Clemens Eckert (Uni Leipzig, 2011), Dr. Falk Kohlmann (Uni Leipzig, 2011), Dr. Ken Mansfeldt (Uni Leipzig, 2012), Dr. Dirk Schmalzried (Uni Leipzig, 2013), Prof. Dr. Daniel Beverungen (Habilitation, Uni Münster, 2013)
• 01/2014 - 12/2017
  Thesis advisor: Dr. Stephan Jacob (Uni Magdeburg, 2014), Dr. Marcus Bauer (Uni Leipzig, 2014), Dr. Michael Fischbach (Uni Leipzig, 2014), Dr. Ralph Tröger (Uni Leipzig, 2014), Dr. Stefan Hesse (TU Dresden, 2015), Dr. Torben Küpper (Uni St.Gallen, 2015), Dr. Christian Lambeck (TU Dresden, 2016), Dr. Rebecca Nüesch (Uni Leipzig, 2016), Dr. Mehmet Kilic (Uni Zürich, 2017), Dr. Tobias Widmer (Uni Hohenheim, 2017), Dr. Roger Rechsteiner (Uni St.Gallen, 2017)
• 01/2018 - 12/2021
  Thesis advisor: Dr. Stephan Sachse (Uni Leipzig, 2018), Dr. Carina Cundius (Uni Leipzig, 2018), Dr. Alexander Wienecke (Uni St.Gallen, 2018), Dr. Ante Platzibat (Uni St.Gallen, 2019), Dr. Olaf Reinhold (Uni Leipzig, 2019), Dr. Daniel Proba (Uni St.Gallen, 2020), Prof. Dr. Agata Filipowska (Habilitation, Uni Leipzig, 2020), Dr. Sebastian Hermes (TU München, 2021)
• since 01/2022
  Thesis advisor: Dr. Maik Dehnert (Uni Potsdam, 2022), Dr. Roger Heines (Uni St.Gallen, 2022), Dr. Daniel Burdensky (Uni Leipzig, 2022), Prof. Dr. Jürgen Anke (Habilitation, Uni Leipzig, 2022), Dr. Christian Dietzmann (Uni Leipzig, 2023), Dr. Alireza Ansari Vaghef (Uni Leipzig, 2023), Dr. Katharina Schache (Uni St.Gallen, 2023), Dr. Aleksandr Skiruk (Uni Leipzig, 2023), Dr. Katharina Blöcher (Uni Leipzig, 2023), Dr. Steffen Bindel (TU Cottbus, 2024)

• Business application systems (ERP), in particular regarding the integration of customers and suppliers (Customer Relationship and Supply Chain Management)
• Electronic markets and digital platforms, in particular the impact of decentralized (blockchain) technologies
• Methods for management of interorganizational processes, in particular Service Science and Business Engineering
• Assessment of innovative technologies (e.g. AI, DLT, Social Media) in industries such as finance (fintech), energy and logistics

• Foodservice Digital Hub - Netzwerk für digitale Innovationen in der Gastronomie

  Alt, Rainer

  Duration: 08/2021 – 07/2022

  Funded by: BMWK Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: WINF/Anwendungssysteme für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung
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• Editorial Office ‚Electronic Markets – The International Journal on Networked Business‘ (EM)

  Alt, Rainer

  Duration: 04/2006 – ongoing

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: WINF/Anwendungssysteme für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung
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• Digital Tax Compliance Management System (DigiTax)

  Gebhardt, Johannes

  Duration: 02/2024 – 01/2027

  Funded by: EU Europäischer Sozialfonds (ESF)

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: WINF/Anwendungssysteme für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung; BWL/betriebswirtschaftliche Steuerlehre
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• eSleepA - User-oriented data acquisition and preparation

  Alt, Rainer

  Duration: 02/2023 – 01/2025

  Funded by: BMWK Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: WINF/Anwendungssysteme für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung; Universitätsklinikum Leipzig AöR
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• Potentials of Social CRM in smart tourism management for innovative digital customer experiences and relationship management

  Alt, Rainer

  Duration: 03/2023 – 02/2024

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik
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more projects

• Alt, R.

  Electronic Markets on digital platforms and AI

  Electronic Markets. 2021. 31 (2). pp. 233–241.

  DOI: 10.1007/s12525-021-00489-w
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• Alt, R.; Fridgen, G.; Chang, Y.

  The future of fintech - Towards ubiquitous financial services

  Electronic Markets. 2024. 34 (3).

  DOI: 10.1007/s12525-023-00687-8
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• Sunyaev, A.; Dehling, T.; Strahringer, S.; Da Xu, L.; Heinig, M.; Perscheid, M.; Alt, R.; Rossi, M.

  The future of enterprise information systems

  Business & Information Systems Engineering. 2023. 65 (6). pp. 731–751.

  DOI: 10.1007/s12599-023-00839-2
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• Schmidt, R.; Alt, R.; Zimmermann, A.

  Assistant platforms

  Electronic Markets. 2023. 33 (1). p. 59.

  DOI: 10.1007/s12525-023-00671-2
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• Schmidt, R.; Alt, R.; Zimmermann, A.

  Exploring the scope of multi-platforms - A network science approach

  Proceedings 32. European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). 2024.
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more publications

• Andere herausragende Auszeichnungen: Best Reviewer Award

  Alt, Rainer (WINF/Anwendungssysteme für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung)

  awarded in 2019 by International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS).
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• Andere herausragende Auszeichnungen: Best Reviewer Award

  Alt, Rainer (WINF/Anwendungssysteme für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung)

  awarded in 2023 by European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).
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more awards

• WINF/Anwendungssysteme für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung

  Fakultätsvereinbarung mit der Kyung Hee University, Korea

  Start Date of Collaboration: 18/12/2023

  External participating organisations: Kyung Hee University (Seoul, Korea, Republic of)

  Involved persons: Alt, Rainer; Reinhold, Olaf
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• WINF/Anwendungssysteme für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung

  Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business

  Start Date of Collaboration: 01/04/2006

  External participating organisations: Fachhochschule St. Gallen (St. Gallen, Switzerland)

  Involved persons: Alt, Rainer
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• WINF/Anwendungssysteme für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung

  German-Brazilian Partnerships for Social CRM

  Start Date of Collaboration: 01/01/2015

  Ended on: 31/12/2018

  External participating organisations: Federal University of Pará (UFPA) (Belém, Brazil)

  Involved persons: Reinhold, Olaf; Alt, Rainer
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more cooperations

• Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2021)

  Track Future of Digital Markets and Platforms

  WINF/Anwendungssysteme für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung

  Event Organiser: Alt, Rainer; Heinzl, A.; Weinhardt, C.

  09/03/2021 – 11/03/2021
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• International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2022)

  Track Current Topics in IS Development

  WINF/Anwendungssysteme für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung

  Event Organiser: Zimmermann, Alfred; Schmidt, Rainer; Alt, Rainer

  31/08/2022 – 02/09/2022
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• Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

  Minitrack Artificial Intelligence-based Assistants and Platforms

  WINF/Anwendungssysteme für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung

  Event Organiser: Schmidt, Rainer; Alt, Rainer; Zimmermann, Alfred

  06/01/2025 – 09/01/2025
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• International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)

  Conference Track FinTech

  WINF/Anwendungssysteme für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung

  Event Organiser: Alt, Rainer; Liu, De; Huang, Ke-Wei

  13/12/2025 – 16/12/2025
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• Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2025)

  Practice Track: Innovative Prototypes & Impact of IS

  WINF/Anwendungssysteme für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung

  Event Organiser: Alt, Rainer; Leist, Susanne; Morana, Stefan

  12/09/2025 – 16/09/2025
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more events

• Introduction to Business Information Systems (Bachelor)
• Business Process Management, intraorganizational (Bachelor)
• Enterprise Systems / SAP (Bachelor)
• Business Process Management, interorganizational (Master)
• Enterprise Systems / E-Business (Master)
• Business Innovation (Master)
• Blockchain Hackathon (Master)

• Introduction to Business Information Systems

  •  Digitalization of the economy and digital transformation
  •  Information and knowledge management in businesses
  •  Enterprise and interorganizational application systems
  •  Modeling of business, process and system models

• Business Proces Management

  Bachelor course (GPM 1)

  • Process-orientation and Business Engineering
  • Modeling languages (BPMN, eEPK)
  • Process Management (Six Sigma)
  • BPM tools and process mining

  Master course (GPM 2)

  • Inter-company process management
  • Modeling (e3Value, BPMN, Archimate)
  • Network management and control
  • Standards for inter-company processes

• Enterprise Systems

  Bachelor course (ES 1)

  • Architecture of enterprise systems
  • Operational enterprise systems (ERP)
  • Decision support systems (BI)
  • Introduction of enterprise systems

  Master course (ES 2)

  • Electronic business/Interorganizational systems
  • Electronic markets and digital platforms
  • E-commerce, customer relationship and supply chain management
  • Data, catalog and transaction standards