Rolf Hichert

After studying mechanical engineering in Stuttgart, Rolf worked for the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation (IPA). He was a consultant at McKinsey & Co., Inc. in Düsseldorf, and afterwards professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Constance.

His subsequent appointments: Founder and director of the Transfer Center Technology and Management of the Steinbeis Foundation in Stuttgart, co-founder and managing director of MIK GmbH in Constance/Germany, professor for controlling at the Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences, managing director of MIS Switzerland AG in Zurich. In 2004 he founded HICHERT+PARTNER (today HICHERT+FAISST IBCS® Institute).

In 2013 he transferred major parts of his intellectual property to the newly-founded IBCS Association in order to discuss it in public forums, disseminate and further develop it under a Creative Commons license. Today Rolf serves as president of the IBCS Association.