Helmut Krcmar

Helmut Alfred Otto Krcmar (born December 16, 1954, in Hanau, Germany) is a German information systems scholar and economist. He served as Founding Dean of the TUM Campus Heilbronn (2018–2020). Since 2020, he has been heading the KrcmarLab at the School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He holds the title of TUM Emeritus of Excellence within the TUM Senior Excellence Faculty.

Career Krcmar is a Senior Scholar and Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). From July 2014 to June 2015, Krcmar served as President of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).

From 1987 to 2002, Krcmar held the Chair of Information Systems at the University of Hohenheim. At the age of 32, he became full professor of business administration. From 2000 to 2002, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the same University. After that he held the Chair of Information Systems at Technical University of Munich (2002-2020). Additionally, he was Dean of the Department of Computer Science at Technical University of Munich (2010-2013), he was a member of both the TUM Senate and the University Council (2016-2019), he served as Vice Dean of the TUM School of Management (2018-2020). Moreover, he was the Founding Dean (2018-2020) and the President’s Representative (2018-2024) for the TUM Campus Heilbronn.

He is a widely cited author (h-index 87 ) and serves on several editorial boards, including ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, Electronic Markets, and Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB), as well as on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Information Technology (JIT) and the Honorary Board of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS).

His book Information Management (Informationsmanagement) reached its sixth edition in 2015.

Other Activities Krcmar has been a member of the Board of the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) from 2004 to 2024. He is co-founder and former spokesperson (until 2018) of CeDoSIA, the interdisciplinary doctoral program of the Department of Informatics at TUM. From 2004 to 2007, he served as founding director of TUM Executive Education (then “Communicate! Executive Training Program Communication and Leadership”) and is currently Academic Director of the TUM EEC Executive MBA program “Business and IT”. He was Academic Director of the SAP University Competence Center (UCC) @ TUM (2003-2023) and served as Co-Managing Director of Die TUM Campus Heilbronn gGmbH (2018-2024).

Krcmar is a co-founder and Senior Fellow of fortiss gGmbH From 2012 to 2024, he was a member of the Board of the Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA). He is also the founder of ITM GmbH and a co-founder of Qupe GmbH as well as Tür an Tür – Digitalfabrik gGmbH. TUM Emeritus of Excellence (2021) Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande) (2021) Ranked 1st in the WirtschaftsWoche ranking of the most research-productive business scholars in the German-speaking region (2019)