About the Author
Dr. Wolfgang Messner is Professor of International
Management at MYRA School of Business (India) and Director of GloBus Research -
Messner Consulting & Training Pvt. Ltd.; he has also taught as an adjunct
faculty at the Indian Institutes of Management Bangalore, Indore and Kozhikode (India), Royal Docks Business School (University of East London, UK), University of Würzburg (Germany), and WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany).
Wolfgang has written seven books, including Globalization of Professional Services
(2012; co-editors Ulrich Bäumer and Peter Kreutter) and Intelligent IT
Offshoring to India (2010). His many academic and practitioner publications have
appeared in International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Journal of Indian Business Research, Business Information Review,
The Marketing Review, and numerous other academic and practitioner outlets; they
deal with business transformation, the business impact of information
technology, and intercultural collaboration.
Having worked in senior management positions with leading corporates and
consulting companies (BMW Group, Capgemini, Deutsche Bank, The Information
Management Group IMG) in Europe and India, he now undertakes research, gives
keynote presentations, runs workshops, and consults globally on strategic
business transformation projects.
Wolfgang holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Kassel
(Germany), an M.B.A. in Financial Management with distinction from the
University of Wales (UK), and a first-class master's degree in Informatics after
studies at the Technical University Munich (Germany) and the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). He also studied at the Università per Stranieri di
Perugia (Italy) and attended executive education on Strategic Marketing
Management at Harvard Business School (US).
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