Patricia Adam

Since 2004, Prof. Dr. Patricia A. Adam is Professor of "International Management" at the University of Applied Sciences Hannover. She teaches and researches management systems, intercultural competence and agile processes.

After studying national economics, she worked in various positions at Dresdner Bank AG for ten years, starting in 1994. During that time, she gained practical experience in e.g. credit risk management, quality management, in-house consulting and internal audit. In 2001, she earned her extra-occupational doctorate. Out of the central integration office of Allianz AG in Munich, she accompanied one of the biggest mergers in the German financial industry. Today, she continues to work as an auditor and assessor around the world to assess organisations and their management systems.

Finishing her doctoral thesis on the topic of „Fostering the Service Quality of Banks - Self-Assessment as an Innovative Management Tool“ published by Bankakademie-Verlag in German, Patricia Adam had vowed to herself never to write a book again. In 2015, her textbook "Managing Internationalisation" was published in English by UTB.

In 2020 Springer Gabler-Verlag published her focused "essential" on agility. It is aimed specifically at practitioners, especially in organisational development and quality and innovation management.

Additional information can be found on her website www.patricia-adam.com.