Ivo Blohm
Ivo Blohm
Prof. Dr.
Associate Professor
IWI-HSG
Büro 52-6014
Müller-Friedberg-Strasse 6/8
9000 St. Gallen
Büro 52-6014
Müller-Friedberg-Strasse 6/8
9000 St. Gallen
Publications
Main Focuses
Business Analytics
Data Science
Crowdsourcing
Fields of research
Business Analytics
Data Science
Crowdsourcing
Education
- 2021 Habilitation "Leveraging Business Analytics in Organisations with Crowdsourced Data" at University of St.Gallen
- 2017 CAS Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at the University St.Gallen
- 2012 Ph.D. Studies at the Chair for Information Systems (Prof. Krcmar) at Technische Universität München (Germany)
- 2009 Technology and Management-oriented Business Administration at Technische Universität München (Germany)
- 2005-2006 Erasmus-Exchange at Università degli Studi di Verona (Italy)
Professional Career
- Since 2022 Associate Professor for Information Systems and Business Analytics at University of St. Gallen
- Since 2019 Academic Director and Program Manager "CAS Big Data & Artificial Intelligence for Managers"
- 2016-2022 Assistant Professor for Data Science and Management at University of St. Gallen
- 2009-2012 Research Associate at Technische Universität München (Germany) in Information Systems Research (Prof. Dr. Krcmar)
- 2013 Invited Visiting Researcher at University of Queensland (Australien)
- 2012 Invited Visiting Researcher at Harvard University (USA)
Teaching Activities
The core of my teaching is in the domain business analytics:
- Business Analytics and Data Science Applications (Bachelor, Data Science Fundamentals Program)
- Big Data und Data Science (Master)
- Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for Business (Master)
- FPV Big Data - Developing Smart Business Models (Master)
- CAS "Big Data and Artfificial Intelligence for Managers" and participation in various other ExecEd (Executive)
Besides, I teach / tought various core information system courses
- Theories in Organization and Information Systems (Ph.D.)
- Business & IT Strategy Alignment (Master)
- Case Study Seminar Internet Economy (Bachelor)
- Introduction to Information Management (Bachelor)
Projects
- SNF: Hybrid Creativity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Defy or Reinforce Human Creative Performance
- Learning Algorithms for Discrimination Free Innovation Funding Activities
- InnoSuisse: Procurement Intelligence – Data-driven total cost and resilience optimization for purchasing
- InnoSuisse: Combining artificial and collective intelligence for developing scalable software testing approaches
- Competence Center Crowdsourcing
- Competence Center Agile Transformation
- SNF: Transformation of Work Through Internal Crowdsourcing
- Grundlagenforschungsfond Universität St. Gallen, Post-Doc-Förderung für Projekt “How can Crowdsourcing Support Digital Value Creation?”
- Kommission für Technologie und Innovation (CH) Projekt „Bee Up - Crowdsourcing als Ansatz zur Geschäftsmodellentwicklung von KMU“
Affiliations
- AIS
- AOM
- VHB
Awards
Ivo Blohm has been ranked on place 28 out of german-speaking 3346 business researchers in terms of research productivity by Wirtschaftswoche
- 2021 Best Associate Editor, European Conference on Information Systems
- 2021 Best Associate Editor, Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik
- 2020 Latsis Price of University St. Gallen (Best Early Career Researcher)
- 2019 Runner Up Best Associate Editor, International Conference on Information Systems
- 2019 Nominee HICCS Best Paper Award
- 2019 Ranked 40th out of 2854 business researchers in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany by Wirtschaftswoche in terms of research productivity
- 2018 Nominee VHB Best Paper Award (Best IS Paper in 2016/2017)
- 2018 Runner Up, Best Associate Editor, International Conference on Information Systems
- 2018 Finalist TUM Research Excellence Award
- 2017 Nominee Most Innovative Short Paper, International Conference on Information Systems
- 2017 Nominee European Research Paper of the Year, CIONET
- 2016 2nd Runner Up Most Innovative Research-In-Progress Paper, International Conference on Information Systems
- 2016 Best Paper in Track "Digital Collaboration and Social Media", International Conference on Information Systems
- 2016 Best Reviewer Award Academy of Management Annual Meeting, OCIS Division
- 2016 Junior Faculty Consortium, International Conference on Information Systems
- 2015 Nominee Best Paper Award Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik
- 2011 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Doctoral Consortium OCIS Division
- 2010 University President's Performance Award for outstanding contributions at Technical University of Munich
- 2007-2008 Leonardo scholarship
- 2006-2012 e-fellows.net scholarship
- 2005-2006 Erasmus scholarship
Spin-Offs
- BeeUp GmbH
- Perspective Food AG
Talks
Speaker, Keynoter, and Panelist for business analytics, building data-driven organizations and innovations, artificial and collective intelligence as well as crowdsourcing and other forms of digital work. A small selection of recent talks:
- Wie Tech "Business Resilienz" schafft und "Organisationelle Agilität" ermöglicht, Swisscom CAP 2021 Virtual Kickoff-Event, 15.01.2021
- Building Data-driven Organizations, CIE Virtual Roundtable, 12.11.2020
- Analytics für Manager, Handelsblatt Workshop, Berlin, 16.04.2020
- What must Managers know about Analytics? Digital Week, Executive School University of St.Gallen, 03.03.2020
- How to Build a Data-Driven Organization, Webinar Executive School University of St.Gallen, 30.06.2019
- How to Build Data-Driven Innovations and Organizations, AppliedAI KI für den Mittelstand, München, 09.05.2019
- How to apply AI for small data problems? Simulating survival and profitability of startups, AI Suisse Meetup Zürich, 20.02.2019
- The Nature of Crowd Work and its Effects on Individuals’ Work Perception, IDHEAP University of Lausanne, 26.06.2019
- Verbindung künstlicher und kollektiver Intelligenz zur Entwicklung skalierbarer Software Testing Lösung, BDLI TecDays, Airbus, Friedrichshafen, 18.03.2019
- Re-Imagining Education: The Solution to embrace Artificial Intelligence into Society, Swiss Cognitive, Zurich (CH), 05.11.2018
Editorial Board
Editorial Board “Journal of Information Technology”