Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hubert Österle was appointed chair of Information Management at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in 1980. He founded the Institute of Information Management (IWI-HSG) and the companies IMG, the Business Engineering Institute St. Gallen, the CDQ AG, and further start-ups. His main research areas are corporate data quality, business networking, business engineering, and inde...