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Prof. Dr. Gunter Dueck

We are intelligent on our own - but not in a swarm!

Prof. Dr. Gunter Dueck, former mathematics professor and CTO of IBM Germany, is now active as a renowned author, business angel, and sought-after speaker. As an IEEE Fellow and member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, he is one of the most influential figures in the IT industry. His bestsellers such as "Professionelle Intelligenz" and "Schwarmdumm" demonstrate his profound knowledge and inspiring expertise.

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Prof. Dr. Gunter Dueck

  • Act Different 2014: Gunter Dueck - Das Neue und seine Feinde

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Vita

Gunter Dueck, born in 1951, lives in Waldhilsbach near Heidelberg, is married and has two grown-up children. After a career as a mathematics professor, he moved to IBM in 1987, where he was responsible for the development of new business areas (business intelligence, cloud computing) and cultural change, among other things. For three years, he held the temporary title of “Master Inventor at IBM”. Most recently, when he retired, he was CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of IBM Germany and IBM Distinguished Engineer. Since 2011, he has been a freelance writer, business angel and speaker.Gunter Dueck is an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the German Informatics Society and a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2011, Computerwoche named him one of the 100 most influential personalities in the IT/communications industry in Germany. Dueck is the author of many bestsellers, most recently “Professional Intelligence”, “The New and its Enemies” and “Swarm Stupid”.

Topics

He regularly speaks on the following topics at symposia, conferences, company events, etc.
 

Innovation: Here he lists the dangers of creating something new and sheds light on the background.

 

Swarm stupidity (his book “Schwarmdumm” from 2015):   New education - empowerment, not just enlightenment. Individually we are intelligent - but not as a swarm!

 

The world after cloud computing: The internet is revolutionizing. Self-driving cars are changing our lives, yeast bacteria are replacing petrochemicals. We control everything from our smartphones. A joint look into the near future.

 

BREAKING UP! Why we must become a society of excellence!” (title of one of his books). It is about the change in the world triggered by the Internet. Computers are taking the simple things away from us, so we have to build new industries in which “nothing is simple yet”.

 

Education of the future or HEAD REFORM: Education must develop a sense for professional work. But where do we learn all this? We need new education - empowerment, not just enlightenment.

 

Change! Change! Today, innovations are changing everything so abruptly that the general call for disruptive change is becoming unmistakably loud. Change is forced innovation.

With Prof. Gunter Dueck, you have a wide range of options, but he also loves to take on new topics, which he will be happy to discuss with you personally.

References & Press

2006: Lean Brain Management was named “Business Book of the Year 2006” by the Financial Times and getAbstract as soon as it was published.

2008: Abschied vom Homo Oeconomicus was nominated as one of ten books for the German Business Book Prize 2008.

2011: Computerwoche ranks Gunter Dueck as one of the 100 most influential personalities (57th to be exact) in the German ITC landscape (information technology and communication)

2011: Gunter Dueck is one of six nominees for the 2011 Best of Social Media Award in the category “Most Influential Social Media Person”

2011: Professional Intelligence is ranked 3rd among the books of the year 2011 by the portal changeX

2011: Professional Intelligence is voted 11th in the non-fiction category in the largest reader poll on the internet “Der Leserpreis - die besten Bücher 2011” (lovelybooks.de)

2013: The New and its Enemies was nominated as one of ten books for the German Business Book Award 2013.

2015: Schwarmdumm was nominated as one of ten books for the German Business Book Award 2015.

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