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1 Curriculum Vitae Martin J. Eppler Chaired Professor of Media and Communications Management University of St. Gallen (HSG) Head of the International Study MBA Program (ISP-HSG) Managing Director =mcm institute for media and communications management Blumenbergplatz St. Gallen CH-Switzerland Martin.Eppler [at] unisg.ch Citizenship: Swiss EDUCATION / DEGREES 2003 Venia Legendi / Habilitation (Professor qualification) at the University of St. Gallen for Management, with emphasis on Information and Communication Management (Topic: Managing Information Quality) 1998 Doctorate in Management, HEC, University of Geneva, Thesis Subject: Informative Action: An Analysis of Information Overload in Management. Summa cum laude Master in Management, University of St. Gallen, Summa cum laude (Top 1 Percent of Class). HSG Steinacher Price for best management master thesis. Studies at the Boston University School of Communication (Dean s list) and at the Paris Graduate School of Management (ESCP-EAP). TEACHING EXPERIENCE Since 1996: University of Geneva (Switzerland): Knowledge Management and Strategy in the executive MBA programs (in French and English) Since 1999: University of St. Gallen (Switzerland): Bachelor, Master, Doctorate and MBA courses on Research Methods, Knowledge Management, Information Management, Communications Management, Visual Literacy for Management, Global Management Communication, and Creativity University of Lausanne (Switzerland): Knowledge Management at the Master and postgraduate level : University of Chemnitz (Germany): Knowledge Management at the postgraduate level : Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland Corporate Strategy, Information and Knowledge Management, Industry Analysis, Visual Business Communication, Managerial Communication, Conducting Literature Reviews, Taxonomy Building in Research; at the Bachelor, Masters, and PhD Level : University of Krems (Austria): Knowledge Management at the postgraduate level 1

2 : ETH Zurich / Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland): Knowledge Management at the postgraduate level (Academy of the Armed Forces) : University of Lucerne (Switzerland) Knowledge Management at the postgraduate level 2006: CTCSPMO (China Training Center for Senior Personnel Management Officials) Beijing, China 2006: Guest Lecturer in the Master of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Engineering (Tripod Program) on Strategy Visualization : Guest Professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), Business School, Beijing, China courses in Industry Analysis, Strategy, Global Management and Research Methods : University of Berne, post-graduate programs (knowledge management) 2010: University of Basle (Switzerland) Course on knowledge management in the CAS Nonprofit Governance & Leadership, : First Aalto Guest Professor of Knowledge Communication and Visualization, Helsinki School of Economics, Aalto University, Finland; course on Knowledge Commuication and Visualization for the School of Economics, the School of Technology, and the School of Design October-November 2011: Guest Professor of International Management Communication at the Universidad del Pacifico, Lima (Peru s Nr. 1 ranked business school). Lecturing (in Spanish) in the university s MBA and Global Business Executive Master program. 2013: Trainer and university lecturer in Columbia (Bogota and Medellin), Brazil (São Paolo and Rio de Janeiro), Norway (Oslo), and Italy (Rome), as well as Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) 2014: Trainings in Brazil and the UK on Design Thinking and Creativity. PROFESSIONAL NON-TEACHING EXPERIENCE Since 2013: Head of the International Study MBA Program, University of St. Gallen Since 2010: Managing Director of the =mcm institute for media and communication management 2007: Senior Visiting Fellow, Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), Business School, Beijing, China 2006: Senior Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge (UK), Center for Strategy & Performance Since 2003: Partner and Chief Software Architect of lets-focus.com Since 1998: Consultant, trainer, evaluator, and project collaborator (Philips, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Daimler, AXA, Swiss Ministry of Health, EON, BMW, Swiss Re) : Geneva Knowledge Group (GKG Ltd.): Consultant 1997: Bain & Company Inc., Munich: Summer Associate: Technology & Market Assessment, Strategy Development. 1996: Procter & Gamble (Geneva), external Market Research Project Co-ordinator 1995: International Herald Tribune, Paris: Interim Assistant to the CIO. Development of Internet strategy and pilot implementation of interactive services. 1994: Ringier Europe, Zurich: New Media Project Coordinator : Creative Business Consultants (Advertising Consultancy), Zurich & Geneva: Assistant to the Head of Strategic Planning 2

3 RESEARCH AND TRAINING AREAS Knowledge management, knowledge visualization, knowledge work, knowledge communication, and knowledge media Group collaboration and innovation, collaborative creativity and design thinking Strategy implementation and strategy communication Managerial and inter-cultural communication and decision making AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS Executive MBA Teaching Award for the best course in the French Core Program by the University of Geneva Best Paper Award IEEE 17 th International Information Visualization Conference Executive MBA Teaching Award for the best course in the French Core Program by the University of Geneva Best Paper Award 11 th International Knowledge Management Conference I know 2011, Graz, Austria. Best Paper Award IEEE 14 th International Information Visualization Conference Research Award by the International Association of Business Communicators Research Foundation as only second Non-US researcher in 26 years. ZfU International Business School Teaching Award in Gold Ranked No. 1 Professor in the University of St. Gallen Media MBA Program University of Lugano Research Development Award (Fondo Tasso) Steinacher Price for best Management Thesis, University of St. Gallen Full Swiss National Research Fund Dissertation Scholarship Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award Nominee, Academy of Management Conference, 2011 Opening Keynote Speaker Kremser Wissensmanagementtage (International Knowledge Management Conference, Austria) Keynote Speaker at the Global Entrepreneurs Organization University 2014 Keynote speaker 15 th International Information Visualization Conference, University of London, London, Keynote speaker at the 2008 ISTIC Conference, Beijing, China Keynote speaker XVII European Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes 2009 Keynote Speaker Triple I Conference 2007 on Semantic Technologies and of I-know 2007 Keynote Speaker Swiss Economist Day 2007 Keynote Speaker Knowledge Communication Conference 2008 (Aarburg, Denmark) Opening Keynote Speaker Learntec 2007 (Europe s largest e-learning conference) Ranked global top 100 Internet websites by Ted.com (for visual-literacy.org). Research featured in Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, and BusinessWeek, The Guardian, and in O Reilly Release 2.0 as visualization landmarks, as well as in more than 800 blogs and specialized websites, incl. several US Newspapers European Union s Information Society Technologies Prize Nominee for lets-focus software (rated as one of Europe s most innovative software packages) Member and Vice President of the Scientific Board of the International Institute for Education Research in Frankfort (DIPF), Germany LANGUAGE SKILLS German: native, English: fluent, Spanish: fluent, French: fluent Italian: fluent (Extensive teaching experience/ability in all five languages) ACADEMIC COMMITTEES (Selection) Conference Co-Chair of the 8 th MIT International Information Quality Conference, Boston, 2003 Workshop Chair: 1 st and 2 nd International Information Quality Workshop at the CAISE Conference, 2004 and 2005 Editorial Board member of OrganisationsEntwicklung (the oldest European Change Management journal) Editorial Board member of Studies in Communication Sciences (until 2009) Editorial Board member of Information & Management (until 2009) Editorial Board member of Journal of Universal Knowledge Management Reviewer for a tenure committee decision at Cambridge University, Dept. of Engineering 3

4 Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation Reviewer for the journal Organization Studies Reviewer for the journal Electronic Markets Reviewer for the journal Information Technology Reviewer for the International Journal of Innovation Management Reviewer for the IEEE Information Visualization Conference Reviewer for the Journal Information Visualization Reviewer for the Journal Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Reviewer for LRP Long Range Planning International Journal of Strategic Management Reviewer for the European Management Review Reviewer for the Leibniz Association (Germany) Reviewer for the International Journal of Media Management Reviewer for the Business Information Systems Engineering Journal (BISE) Member of the Program Committee of the Conference on Educational Environments Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Knowledge Management I Know Member of the Program Committee of the MIT International Conference on Information Quality Reviewer for the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Information Visualization Member of the Program Committee of the ETH New Design Axioms Workshop Reviewer for ECIS European Conference on Information Systems Reviewer and member of the organization committee for the DGPUK 2008 Conference Program Committee Member Triple-I international conference 2008 Program Committee Member of the Professional Knowledge Management Conference 2008 Program Committee Member of the 2009 COINFO Conference, Beijing, China Program Committee Member of the 2009 Media, Knowledge and Education Conference, Innsbruck, Austria Program Committee Member of the RED 2010 Conference on Rethinking Education in the Knowledge Society Member of a PhD council for Cambridge University (UK) Reviewer for a professorship committee decision at University of Freiburg Germany Member of the Cambridge University Crucible Research Group Deputy Head of the Scientific Board of the German Institute for International Pedagogic Research DIPF Reviewer SGKM Annual Conference External committee member, University of Geneva, International Management Chair Appointment Committee PhD Co-examiner, University of Cambridge, University of St. Gallen, University of Lugano, University of Berne Various university-internal roles, such as: Former Head of National and International Relations Former President, Didactic Commission Former member of Bachelor Program Commission Member of several tenure commissions in Switzerland and abroad Member steering committee university website re-launch Member of several chair search committees President of various PhD defense sessions Member of the university s IT board Member of the University s Internationalization commission Member of the university expansion committee to create five new chairs in management Honorary PhD Selection Committee 4

5 KEY PUBLICATIONS Select Books: Eppler, M.J. Managing Information Quality. Increasing the Value of knowledge-intensive Products and Processes, Third (paperback) Edition, New York/Heidelberg: Springer, [Citations:>300] Reinmann, G., Eppler, M.J.: Wissenswege: Methoden für das persönliche Wissensmanagement, Berlin/Bern: Hogrefe/Huber, Eppler, M.J., Pfister, R., Hoffmann, F.: CREABILITY, Schäffer- Poeschel, 2014 Reinhardt, R., Eppler, M. (Eds.): Wissenskommunikation in Organisationen, Berlin: Springer, Eppler, M.J., Pfister, R.: Sketching at Work. Stuttgart: Schäffer- Poeschel, (Available in German, English, and Brazilian Portuguese [Elsevier]) Eppler, M.J., Mengis, J. Management Atlas. Munich: Hanser, (ranked as one of the top 3 career books of 2012 by Abendblatt) Roehl, H., Winkler, B., Eppler, M.J., Fröhlich, C. (Eds.) Werkzeuge des Wandels. Stuttgart: Schäfer Poeschel,

6 Select Articles: Eppler, M., Mengis J.: The Concept of Information Overload: A Review of Literature from Organization Science, Marketing Accounting, MIS, and related disciplines, in: The Information Society an International Journal, 20(5), 2004, pp [Citations: > 560] Eppler, M.J. & Burkhard, R.: Visual Representations in Knowledge Management: framework and cases, in: Journal of Knowledge Management, 4(11), 2007, pp Mengis, J., Eppler, M.J.: Managing Conversations from a Knowledge Perspective, in: Organization Studies, September, 29, 2008, pp Eppler, M.J., Platts., K.: Visual Strategizing, in: Long Range Planning LRP, 2009, February 2009: pp Eppler, M.J., Mengis, J.: Wie Entscheider und Experten reden lernen, (How Decision Makers and Experts can learn to have a dialogue.) in: Harvard Business Manager, April 2009, pp Bresciani, S., Eppler, M.J.: The Benefits of Synchronous Collaborative Information Visualization: Evidence from an Experimental Evaluation. In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, (15) 6, 2009, pp Pfister, R.A., Eppler, M.J.: The Benefits of Sketching for Knowledge Management, Journal of Knowledge Management, 2012, 16(2), pp Schmeil, A., Eppler, M.J, de Freitas, S..: A Structured Approach for Designing Collaboration Experiences for Virtual Worlds, in: Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 10(13) 2012, pp Eppler M.J., Hoffmann F., Bresciani S.: New Business Models through Collaborative Idea Generation. International Journal of Innovation Management. Vol. 15 (6), 2011, pp Kernbach, S., Eppler, M.J, Bresciani, S.: Communicating Strategies through Visualization: Experimental Evidence, forthcoming in: Journal of Business Communication. Comi, A., Bischof, N, Eppler, M.J.: Beyond projection: Using visualization in qualitative interviews, forthcoming in: QROM Qualitative Research in Organization and Management - An International Journal. 6