Henner GimpelView profile
Professor
- Digital Health and Wellbeing
- Hybrid, artificial and collective intelligence
- Smart Sustainability and Digital Ethics
- +5 more
Professor Henner Gimpel holds the Chair of Digital Management at the University of Hohenheim, where he serves as Vice Dean for Research and Knowledge Transfer at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences. He leads the Digital Business Management program, directs the FIM Research Institute for Information Management, and serves as academic director of the Digital Leadership Academy. Additionally, he holds a leading position at Fraunhofer FIT's Business Informatics branch. Professor Gimpel's research focuses on the analysis and design of digitalization, particularly examining socio-technical information systems where people, information, and digital technologies interact. His work emphasizes human-centered and economically effective development of information systems, with special attention to individual acceptance and use of digital technologies across various roles including consumers, customers, patients, employees, and users. His key research areas include Digital Health and Wellbeing, Hybrid and Artificial Intelligence, Smart Sustainability and Digital Ethics, and IT adoption and usage. His research methodology combines theoretically grounded empirical studies with design-oriented and model-theoretical approaches, bridging business administration (particularly business informatics, marketing, and organization) with behavioral economics, psychology, and computer science. Professor Gimpel has international research experience from stays at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York and the Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations in Montréal. Current Research Projects: Influence of ICT on Collective Intelligence of Human Groups (DFG) ABBA: AI for Business | Business for AI (BMBF) PALLADiUM: Palliative Care as a Digital Working World (bidt) Hospital 4.0: Lean digital-supported logistics in hospitals (BMBF) ForDigitHealth: Research network for healthy digital technology use (StMWK) PräDiTec: Prevention for safe and healthy work with digital technologies (BMBF) DeLLFi: Integrating digitalization in teaching, learning and research Professor Gimpel actively supports numerous companies across various industries in developing innovative solutions for digital transformation challenges, with clients including Allianz, BMW, Carl Zeiss, Deutsche Bank, IBM, Microsoft, Siemens, and multiple university hospitals. Prior to his academic career, he gained five years of practical experience as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.