Business Intelligence for New-Generation Managers: Current Avenues of Development

Executives in Europe have significantly expanded their role in operations – in parallel to their strategic leadership. At the same time, they need to make decisions faster than in the past. In these demanding times, a redesigned Business Intelligence (BI) should support managers in their new roles. This book summarizes current avenues of development helping managers to perform their jobs more productively by using 'BI for managers' as their central, hands-on, day-to-day source of information – even when they are mobile.

Jörg H. Mayer is the head of the Corporate Management Systems Competence Center at University of St. Gallen. In parallel, he is a Partner of Deloitte Consulting GmbH responsible for Business Technology Innovation (BTI). He received his Doctoral Degree in 1999 at Darmstadt University of Technology. His main research interests are executives and their information systems (IS) support, especially mobile business intelligence for managers and environmental scanning systems.

Reiner Quick has been Professor and the Chair of Accounting and Auditing at Darmstadt University of Technology since 2004 as well as a part-time Professor of Auditing at the University of Southern Denmark since 2009. He received his Doctoral Degree in 1990 and his Habilitation in 1995 at the University of Mannheim and held full professorships at the University of Essen and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. His main areas of research are auditing, in particular audit methodology, auditor independence and audit markets and management accounting.