Successful Management of Research & Development

Establishment, development and management of a successful research and development group require systematic knowledge and skills and a target-oriented process model. It begins with a vision and requires a clear mission and accordant strategy in order to achieve these goals. The people involved in the team work are of primary importance; everything depends on the interaction of this team. To create this team, to develop, scaffold, advance and lead is a challenge. However, even the best team is ineffective if there is no funding. Money is not everything but without money everything is nothing. A substantial budget is required to cover staff costs, premises and basic equipment, travel, computers and basic software, a scientific software portfolio, hosting, special equipment, literature, workshop organization, visiting researcher invitations, etc. In an environment of decreasing public budgets, external funding becomes increasingly important in order to sustain international competitiveness, quality and to maintaining excellence. Ultimately, the team is assessed by output, which is composed of measurable, published "items". "If you ask what real knowledge is, I answer, that which enables action (Hermann von Helmholtz)". Keywords Management, Science, Research, Team, Work group

Head of the Research Unit Human-Computer Interaction (hci4all.at), Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University Graz; Assoc. Prof. for Informatics at the Institute of Information Systems and Computer Media, Faculty of Computer Science and Lecturer at the Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Electrical and Information Engineering, Graz University of Technology; Andreas was Visiting Professor in Berlin, Innsbruck, Vienna, London and Aachen. Since 1999 participation in leading positions in 30+ multinational research and development projects with a budget of 3+ MEUR; 300+ publications, 2600+ citations, h index = 25, g Index = 56, (08/2012). Motto: Science is to test ideas - Engineering is to put these ideas into practice.