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Contact

Institute for software technology
Bundeswehr University Munich
D-85577 Neubiberg, Germany (map)

Office: building 41/400, room 2412
Phone +49 089 6004 4406
eMail: a.richter AT kooperationssysteme.de

CV

Alexander Richter is employed as research assistant at the chair for programming of cooperative systems (Prof. Michael Koch) at the Bundeswehr University Munich and at the Cooperation Systems Center Munich.
He studied Business Administration with majors in business informatics, system engineering and environmental & production management at the University of Augsburg from September 2001 until October 2006. From September 2003 until September 2004 he studied at the University of Rennes I in the context of the double diploma course “French-German management” promoted by the French-German University. During his studies Mr. Richter was employed amongst others at DaimlerChrysler France, at KPMG, at Osyskom as well as at the chair for environmental and resources economics (Professor Dr. P. Michaelis) at the University of Augsburg. For his research he was distinguished inter alia with the award “German Knowledge Management Talent 2007”, the Outstanding Paper Award of the 23rd Bled eConference (2010) and the Best Knowledge Management Paper Award of the 22nd Australasian Conference on Information Systems (2011).

Research and projects

In his PhD thesis Dr. Richter examined challenges of the deployment of Social Networking Services in the corporate realm.
Currently he observes with great interest the adoption of Social Software in various German and international companies and is also involved in several projects, inter alia with Siemens, Bosch, Allianz, Capgemini, EADS, IBM, SAP.

Recent research projects

• EU-Project ELISA (Start: Oktober 2010)
• KEEK (Start: February 2010)
• SMILE (Start: November 2010, Link provided soon)
• From Real to Virtual (Start: November 2010)
• Enterprise 2.0 Fallstudienraster

Selected publications ->complete list

(Selected) Books

• Richter, A. (2010): Der Einsatz von Social Networking Services in Unternehmen – Eine explorative Analyse möglicher soziotechnischer Gestaltungsparameter und ihrer Implikationen. Gabler Verlag, München.
• Koch, M.; Richter, A. (2009): Enterprise 2.0 – Planung, Einführung und erfolgreicher Einsatz von Social Software in Unternehmen. Zweite erweiterte Auflage. Oldenbourg Verlag, München.
• Richter, A. (2007): IT-gestütztes Wissensmanagement – Theorie, Anwendungen und Barrieren. Volker Derballa Verlag, Berlin.

(Selected) Conference proceedings (double blind reviewed)

• Richter, A.; Stocker, A.; Müller, S.; Avram, G. (2011), Knowledge Management Goals Revisited – A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Social Software Adoption in Corporate Environments. In: Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Sydney. (Winner of Best Knowledge Management Paper Award)
• Riemer, K.; Richter A. (2010): Tweet Inside: Microblogging in a Corporate Context. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Bled eConference 2010, Bled. (Winner of Bled Outstanding Paper Award)
• Richter, A.; Vogl, G. (2009): SkiBaserl – Knowledge Management in High-Performance Sports. In: Proceedings 9th International Conference on Knowledge Management and New Media Technology (iknow 2009), Graz.
• Richter, A.; Koch, M. (2008): Functions of Social Networking Services. In: Proceedings 8th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (Coop 2008), Carry-le-Rouet.

(Selected) Academic journals (double blind reviewed)

• Riemer, K.; Richter, A.; Böhringer, M. (2010): Enterprise Microblogging. In: Business Information Systems Engineering, 6 (52).
• Koch, M.; Ott, F.; Richter, A. (2009): Erfahrungen aus dem Einsatz von Wikis und Blogs zum Wissens- und Innovationsmanagement. In: HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 267.
• Koch, M.; Richter, A.; Schlosser, A. (2007): Produkte zum IT-gestützten Social Networking in Unternehmen. In: Wirtschaftsinformatik, 6 (49).

(Selected) Contributions in academic books (reviewed)

• Ott, F.; Koch, M.; Richter, A. (2010): CommunityMirrors™ – Using Public Shared Displays to Move Information “out of the box”. In: (Hrsg: Joachim Hafkesbrink, H. Ulrich Hoppe und Johann Schlichter): Competence Management for Open Innovation – Tools and IT-support to unlock the innovation potential beyond company boundaries,
• Richter, A.; Koch, M. (2009): Kooperatives Lernen mit Social Networking Services. In (Hrsg.: Hohenstein, A.; Wilbers, K.): Handbuch E-Learning, Wolters Cluwer.
• Richter, A. (2008): John Handels GmbH & Co. KG: Automatisierte Auftragserfassung. In (Hrsg.: Wölfle, R.; Schubert, P.): Wettbewerbsvorteile in der Kundenbeziehung durch Business Software, Hanser Verlag.
• Richter, A.; Derballa, V. (2008): Barriers to Successful Knowledge Management. In (Hrsg.: Khosrow-Pour, M.): Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition, Information Science Reference.

(Selected) Contributions in practice journals

• Richter, A.; Riemer, K. (2010): Social Software und die Unternehmenskultur – In: Wirschaftsinformatik und Management, 6/2010.
• Böhringer, M.; Richter, A.; Koch, M. (2009): Awareness 2.0 – Ein Anwenderbeispiel von Microblogging im Unternehmen. In: Information, Wissenschaft & Praxis, 4 (60).
• Richter, A.; Koch, M. (2008): Wissenssuche: Wo sind die Experten? In: Wissensmanagement – Das Magazin für Führungskräfte, 4/2008.

Teaching

Courses
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Supervised Thesis
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