Professor Dr. Wolfram Reiners

Academic Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Westfälische-Wilhelms-University of Münster / Germany.
Master of Psychology, University of Mannheim / Germany.

Experience

Entrepreneur in Information Technology

From 2001. Chief Executive Officer relenet GmbH & Co. KG, Konstanz / Germany, Pretoria / South Africa. Social network solutions. Social network communities for niche topics.
From 2005-2008. Chief Executive Officer A3M AG Tübingen / Germany and A3M Inc. Mahe / Seychelles. Global Tsunami Alarm System for mobile phones.
From 2000. Executive Director 3MFuture Ltd. Charlestown. Chief Executive Officer eIntact Cape Town. Non-Executive Director Impress Software Johannesburg and PhiBlue Technologies Johannesburg. Others.
From 1994. Consulting engagements with various clients.

Manager at Andersen Consulting

5 years. In Germany, United Kingdom, United States and South Africa.
Expert for organisational culture and culture change.
Member of the faculty at the Templeton College, Oxford University Management School.
Reiners' projects around performance management and balanced scorecard became the blueprint for Andersen Consulting's global courses in St. Charles / Chicago.
Conception and implementation of the web and telephone enabled customer contact centre LOGIK Centre for the Ministry of Finance South Africa.
Founder and Chief Operating Officer of the electronic marketplace Autris for the automotive industry South Africa.

Scientist and lecturer

Reiners was a lecturer at the Chair of Organisational Psychology and Evaluation Methodology at the University of Münster.
External lecturer for Change Journey Management at the University of Mannheim.

Awards

Awarded the prestigious 2007 European ICT Prize for the A3M Tsunami Institute that Reiners has founded. A3M has been selected from amongst 450 applicants from 30 countries by independent experts. The European ICT Prize is the most distinguished technology award of the European Union for innovative products with great market potential. Prize winners represent the finest of European innovation in information and communication technologies.
Reiners has received the 2007 Prize for the Humane Usage of Information Technology, awarded by Integrata-Stiftung.
Reiners received the annual prize 1994 awarded by the Studienstiftung Deutscher Psychologen for his thesis on utility analysis of assessment centre personnel selection programmes.

Patents

Reiners is the inventor for the secure Internet payment system PSOCA. A patent is granted in South Africa, and patents are pending at the European Patent Office and at the US Patent Office.
Co-Inventor of the tsunami alarm system for mobile phones. Patent pending at PCT and DPMA.
Inventor of the merchant system for digital services. Patent pending at USPTO.
Inventor of a method to take orders and to handle billing for mobile devices. Patent pending at EPO.
Inventor of a method and system to enable requested social comparison on a social network to stimulate growth.
Reiners is the inventor of a method to model proximity of contact between members and articulation of emotions and gestures in social networks.

Academic

Activities at the Universities of Applied Sciences in Konstanz and Furtwangen.
Project manager of the IT research project Modelling of Network Organisations at Furtwangen University. Development of IT-based prototypes for the optimisation of network-based, virtual organisations. The project comprises nine project modules. 7 professors and up to 40 assistants and students were involved.
eBusiness Application Systems - lecture, seminar and practicum.
E-Business Projects - information systems project.
eBusiness Organisation - lecture.
Economics in IT - information systems seminar.
Supply Chain Management - seminar.
Online Marketing - main seminar.
Enterprise Organisation - master seminar.

Scientific Publications

Other

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