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Transfer between science
and economics
The Electronic Business Forum was founded in 1999, by Prof. Oliver
Günther and Dr. Gerrit Tamm. With the organization of numerous
activities, and the realization of industrial consultation projects,
the forum rose to being one of the leading knowledge transfer platforms
in the area of E-Business. Its core activities concern the inter
linkage between students, research institutes, and economic
enterprises, who come together to find solutions to current problems in
the area of E-business. The Electronic Forum promotes not only the
collaboration between economics and science but also exposes students
to the practical requirements of enterprises. There is a committee,
comprising of various professors from different fields and
universities, which acts in an advisory capacity for all the activities
undertaken by the Electronic Business Forum.
Strategic
Consulting
As of the last few years, the Electronic Business Forum has
undertaken an increasing number of strategic consulting projects. IBM,
Siemens, Daimler Chrysler, Porsche, Bertelsmann-Springer, and DeTeWe
represent known partners from the German economy. In the framework of
these projects qualified students and scientists in collaboration with
representatives of the industry work together to come up with solutions
to problems in the E-Business realm. The concept is highly
complementary because it allows student and Ph.D. students the
opportunity to enrich their abilities with practical exposure and
experience, at the same time giving firms the benefit and access to
recent developments in academia.
Orders like system integration for Porsche on the basis of
Microsoft.NET, the development of price forecasting, with the
aggregation of web based services, for IBM as well as the realization
of a month long field project in collaboration with the Berlin public
transport office, regarding mobile information systems for local
passenger traffic is evidence to the fact that the industry has
confidence in the ability of the Electronic Business Forum.
In the working environments of workflow management, security and
trust, E-payment and knowledge management, consulting plays an
important role in terms of planning, conceptualization and realization
of web based services. In 2000, the Electronic Business forum launched
"Aperado.com" that soon became Europe's biggest market place for web
based services. Today Asperado.com is a member of the UDDI advisory
board as well as in the research group, "Application Service
Providing", the German umbrella organization for information systems,
BITKOM.
Events, Forums and Course
of Lectures
To ensure the exchange of knowledge, to a large audience both in
academia and industry, the Electronic Business Forum regularly
organizes talks, discussion groups and conference in addition to its
role as a strategic consultant. The Electronic Business Forum is famous
for its lecture courses since it was started in 1999. Every week during
the semester industry people working in the area of E-business are
invited to give presentations on current issues. At the end of the
lecture, discussions ensue with the students about interesting
strategies, business models and development trends.
After the success of the first two conferences, "Berlin Forum
Electronic Business" the Electronic Business Forum in cooperation with
the Berlin-Brandenburg Graduate Program/Doctoral Program for
"Distributed Information Systems" organized this conference in 2002.
The one day forum, "Alliance of Knowledge - Business and science on its
path to a knowledge based society", drew more than 200 interested
guests. They participated in talks and panel discussions with referees
from the likes of Richard Stallman from the Free Software Foundation
and Scott Collison, director of Microsoft.NET. In October 2003 the
Electronic Business Forum conducted the first economic forum for a
Berlin XML day along with the Chamber for Industry and Commerce and
TimeKontor AG. This was to take place annually from then on.
Cooperation and
Partners
The Electronic Business Forum is part of a network of cooperation
partners. These include among others the innovation forum of the
Humboldt-Universitaet, the Berlin Chamber for Industry and Commerce,
the Berlin media network, and the department of Electronic Business
from the University of Arts. The purpose of these cooperations is to
create a central contact and mediation platform in order to promote
communicative exchange of junior staff. This way the entire information
and communication technology branch of Berlin is activated and boosted
forward. The regular events of the Electronic Business Forum have made
it a permanent fixture in the media and entrepreneur scene of
Berlin.
Contact
Dr. Gerrit Tamm (Geschäftsführer)
Telefon: +41 (0) 71 224 2781
gerrit.tamm@unisg.ch
http://ebf.wiwi.hu-berlin.de
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