Business and Information Technology School

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The Business and Information Technology School ( BiTS ) is a nationally accredited private college with its headquarters in Iserlohn and other locations in Berlin and Hamburg. The BiTS was founded in 2000 by Dietrich Walther, who was also its president until November 30, 2010. Carrier is the BiTS Business and Information Technology School GmbH, which since the beginning of 2010 the property of Laureate Education, Inc.

The university is financed by tuition fees and funding opportunities uses including through a mentoring program.

  • 4.1 concept
  • 4.2 research
  • 4.3 Student activities and ministries
  • 5.1 Deans
  • 5.2 Vice Dean 5.2.1 Former

History

The Business and Information Technology School opened in the winter semester 2000/2001 and teaching started with 25 students in business administration. Founded as the private University of Applied Sciences of Dietrich Walther, first investors were the Gold-Zack Gontard & metal works and the Bank. The lectures were in close proximity to the present campus Iserlohn in the premises of today's Hotel Campus Garden instead. A year later, the lecture rooms were eventually moved to the present building. At the same time, the program was expanded to include courses media management and business computer science.

In the winter semester 2003/2004 started with Business Psychology of the first bachelor's degree program, bringing the BiTS with the conversion of the study programs began in the wake of the Bologna process. Previously, the former shareholders had sold their shares in Dietrich Walther, who thus became the sole owner of the college.

2008, the International Education Group, Laureate Education Inc. acquired via its German subsidiary Laureate Germany Holding GmbH a 76- percent stake in the BiTS. At the same time was the founding president Walter Dietrich his office to Thorsten Bagschik from the CEO of Laureate Germany Holding GmbH.

Structure

Presidium

President BiTS since January 2013 Volker Busch. He is also parallel lectures as a lecturer.

Honorary Senate

The Presidium of the college may appoint individuals who feel connected with the objectives of BiTS and support the College in fulfilling these claims to honor senators. The Chairman is the economist Thomas Reichman, founder and managing partner of Controlling Innovation Centre. Honorary Senate also includes:

  • Peter Paul Ahrens, mayor of the city of Iserlohn
  • Barbara Brosius, a board member of UBS Germany ( Wealth Management )
  • Gustav Edelhoff, Managing Partner of Lobbe Holding
  • Herbert Gray, entrepreneur and publicist
  • Kai -Uwe Heuer, a former board member of Northwest Trade
  • Gerd Heutelbeck, CEO of B & U Heutelbeck
  • Engelbert Himrich, Managing Partner of Keuco
  • Rolf Baron of Hohenhau, president of the Taxpayers in Bavaria
  • Werner L. Kanthak, representative of the American Chamber of Commerce in NRW
  • J. Wolfgang Kirchhoff, Managing Partner and COO of Kirchhoff Automotive
  • Christoph Krämer, Chief Executive of the Savings Bank of the City of Iserlohn
  • Horst -Werner Maier- Hunke, Managing Partner of Durable, NRW employers President
  • Klaus Moßmeier, CEO of Sparkasse Unna
  • Klaus Müller, former mayor of the city of Iserlohn
  • Rainer Niermeyer, business consultant
  • Friedhelm Ost, former Secretary of State, former government spokesman
  • Werner Penk, a partner at Heidrick & Struggles
  • Sigurd Pütter, Managing Partner of medice, honorary senator of the University of Tübingen
  • Udo Pyszny († ), former director of the Institute for Financial Control and Risk Management at the TU Dortmund
  • Wolfgang Schlüter, lawyer, co-founder of the University of Witten / Herdecke
  • Hermann J. Schulte, Managing Partner of HJS vehicle technology, backing the German Environmental Award 2003
  • Ernst Swan Hold, former state minister in North Rhine -Westphalia, CEO of Ernst Schwanhold Consulting
  • Wolfgang Seybold, Attorney at Law
  • Hans -Joachim Tessner, owner of Tessner group
  • Martin Welge, a professor at the Economic and Social Sciences at the TU Dortmund
  • Helmut Thoma, former Managing Director of RTL
  • Ralph Weyler, former sales and marketing director at Audi

Departments and programs

The BiTS offers eight undergraduate and six master's degree programs in four departments. In the undergraduate programs, the fundamentals of each topic area are taught in the first three semesters before a stay abroad is planned in the fourth semester. In the fifth and sixth semester, in-depth studies in the main subjects students can choose itself follows. In addition, in each degree program courses in the areas of soft skills are mandatory. The bachelor degree program includes three semesters of Business English.

The Department " Business Psychology " is the study course Business Psychology assigned in which students deal with economic psychology and economics. Business Psychology was introduced in 2004 as the first undergraduate program at BiTS. In the winter semester 2010 based thereon, the same Master's program was created. It is divided into four areas of competence, to provide the skills for leadership and design tasks in Human Resource Management.

The department of " International Service Industries" are connected two bachelor's and a master's program. The study of International Management for Service Industries includes foundations in international management, business administration and economics. Focus is in the areas of tourism, hospitality and health as well as event management. The bachelor's degree program Sport & Event Management provides knowledge of the sport and event management, business and economics as well as the EDP. Before studying the can choose the specializations Soccer Management, Equine Management and Fashion Management, which extend over the entire six- semester students of this specialty. Building on the bachelor program Sport & Event Management offers the BiTS to the master 's degree program International Sport & Event Management with the competence areas of International Sport Management, International Event Management, International Marketing Management, and International & Vocational Training.

To the Department of " economy" includes three undergraduate and three master's degree programs in the field of business administration. The contents of the course Business and Management Studies come close to a classic business degree. The study of Business and Technology Management includes not only the economics and the engineering sciences and engineering IT. The course Green Business Management provides knowledge in environmental management. The Master's program is intended to provide corporate management expertise to corporate governance. Through an individual module selection from the fields of business management, corporate communications and business psychology, students can specialize in certain orientations. The Master's Program Finance and Management includes the competence mediation in the areas of Financial Management, Accounting, Taxation and controlling. The degree program marketing management involves the areas of expertise Corporate Management and Marketing, Marketing Management, Marketing and International Policy & Vocational Training.

The department of " Media & Communications " includes two bachelor's and master's degree programs. In the affiliated undergraduate program Communication & Media Management skills needed in the field of media management while studying Journalism & Business Communication for Corporate Communications and Public Relations connects with journalism. The Master's program PR & Corporate Communication follows on from the undergraduate programs and puts the emphasis on public relations.

Campus

The campus of BiTS in Iserlohn was until the 1990s the site of a British Military Hospital. The site is located directly on Seilersee in the eastern part of the city of Iserlohn and thus near the A 46 The lecture rooms are located in the main building of the campus, which is adjacent to the neighboring boarding school at Seilersee. In the former barracks building B 6 sits the organization team of the Campus Symposium and other affiliated institutes of the university. The building B 7 was converted to a Uni- disco, in which a band rehearsal room is located. Compared to the B 7 is the refectory and a dormitory with about 80 apartments. In a contest the magazine Unicum, the campus was voted third most beautiful university grounds in Germany.

Since the winter semester 2012/2013 the BiTS also offers some of your courses on the campus of the newly established BiTS in Berlin. The BiTS Campus in Berlin, together with the sister university, the BTK College of Design in Bern Strasse 24-25, accommodated.

In the winter semester 2013/2014, an additional location in Hamburg has been added. Here for selected courses in the premises of the Hamburg htk vocational school for graphic design in Alsterterrasse 1 are offered.

Learning and Teaching

Concept

All courses at the Business and Information Technology School are economically oriented and combine it with special emphasis. From university especially the practical nature of the course content and the faculty as well as the international focus of the study programs will be highlighted.

The target group comprises BiTS (specialized) high school seniors who want to act as leaders in business after their training:

" We train our students to be entrepreneurial thinking and acting young professionals from - because management know -how, content expertise, soft skills and internationalism are the foundations of a career as an executive in the private sector. "

This concept is " The entrepreneurial university", which is also part of the BiTS logos underscored by the slogan. Furthermore offers the BiTS as part of the Master's programs a Leadership Assessment Center in the WestLB Akademie Schloss Krickenbeck to give students the skills for leadership positions and to prepare them for the appropriate requirements.

Research

2008 BiTS provided for a research dean's office, which oversees the coordination between researchers and funding bodies. The focus is on practical research. But also basic research be conducted Chance. Current research is Dean Ralf Lanwehr.

At the university, some institutions are affiliated with that address in addition to the research and practical work in its fields. The consultancy b.one consulting was founded in the winter semester 2001/ 02 by MBA students of the first semester. Consulting services are corporate management, human resources, marketing and sales offered in the fields. White Q Consulting provides research and advisory services for local and regional newspapers, focusing on the changing requirements by the new media.

With GAIA is since 2009 an Institute for Environmental Management at the BiTS, whose task is mainly engaged in research in this area. The Institute of Event Management focuses its activities on event - controlling, the scientific evaluation of events. The Institute for Private Customers concerned primarily with the behavior of private clients in estate planning. In addition to advising wealthy private clients, the institute also offers advice. As an organ of the Society for controlling of Thomas Reichmann, the Institute for Management & Control was founded at BiTS in October 2003. The performance of the Institute include research, assistance with academic work and a management consultancy in this field.

The Institute was founded in 2005 for knowledge management is concerned with the research and consulting company in the field of knowledge management. Switching techniques in economics subjects studied, the Institute for economic education and knowledge transfer, which campaigns for a theming economic foundations already in kindergarten and primary school. The Institute for Cooperation Strategies, founded in March 2007, linking the research with the implementation of the insights regarding consulting and cooperation opportunities in business enterprises. The focus of the Institute are in the business areas of organization and human resources. Research, policy advice and seminars are the business of the Research Institute for Regional and cluster management, which would examine and improve the competitiveness of regions.

Student activities and ministries

A variety of student initiatives have formed at the Business and Information Technology School, which received attention also on the university also. The most prominent initiative is the Campus Symposium, an international economic summit, which was held for the first time in 2005. Students of all disciplines organized the first event to which, among other former German President Richard von Weizsäcker came to the university. Meanwhile, a GmbH was founded for organizing the symposium, in which a solid core of employees alongside the student is busy all year round with the planning. Since 2006, the symposium will be aligned in a Zeltdstadt on campus. Particular attention attracted the commitment of former U.S. President Bill Clinton as a speaker at the Campus Symposium 2006. During last far Campus Symposium 2012 joined the former president of Israel, Ehud Olmert, and the former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to be the keynote speaker.

The Rubicon Contest is an annual international competition be registered for business students to participate in the more than 20 teams each. Tasks include a business simulation game as well as the processing of a case study. The first contest was held after a student's idea in 2006. In the following years the number of applicants teams could be further increased, among other measures already students of Princeton University and the University of St. Gallen in part. With 96 participants from 33 countries, the competition, which will be serviced in charge of the student consulting b.one consulting, claims to be the most international student competition in the world. The Rubicon Contest in March 2011 with the theme "The Future of Mobility".

Students have the opportunity to create its own initiative other departments at BiTS. So there are, among others, the campus magazine BiTSLicht, the online radio bits.fm and the Campus TV BiTS TV. Social projects promote the ministries BiTS vision that supports international development work, as well BiTS 2 Society, which is engaged in the region. The members of b.selected give seminars at schools application tips, while the department IRIS - International Relations for Incoming Students Exchange students supervised during their stay at BiTS.

Personalities

Deans

  • Michael Denninghoff, International Service Industries
  • Uwe Eisermann, former Dean of International Service Industries and Vice Dean of International Management for Service Industries, is now vice-rector of the Berlin Office
  • Hans -Werner Graf, Dean's Office, Chairman of Audit Committee
  • Ralf Lanwehr, Dean of Research, Lecturer Organisational Psychology
  • Roland Schroeder, Dean of Media & Communications, PR & Corporate Communication Vice Dean and former Vice Dean of Journalism & Business Communication
  • Stefan Stein, economy

Vice Dean

  • Thomas Burgartz, Business and Management Studies, Corporate Management
  • Jörg Erpenbach, Marketing Management
  • Hans -Jürgen Friske, Communication and Media Management
  • Karola Graf- Szczuka, Business Psychology (Bachelor)
  • Gerd Grube, Business and Technology Management
  • Silke Hahn, PR and Corporate Communication
  • Daniel Kaltofen, Finance and Management
  • Ralf Lanwehr, Dean of Research
  • Thomas Meuser, Green Business Management
  • Christopher Moss, Journalism and Business Communication
  • Jens Müller, Chairman of the Department of Media and Communication
  • Thomas Rieger, Sport and Event Management, International Sport and Event Management
  • Roland Schröder, Public Relations and Corporate Communication
  • January Werner, International Management for Service Industries

Former

  • Stephan form, former Associate Dean Corporate Management and former Dean of Research
  • Oliver Hahn, former Vice Dean of Journalism and Business Communication
  • Wolfgang Jasper, former Associate Dean of Business Administration, Business and Management Studies continue Lecturer
  • Michael Treier, former Vice Dean of Business Psychology
  • Peter Wolf, former Associate Dean economic computer science, still Lecturer

Lecturers

  • Stephan Becker, founding management
  • Stefan Chatrath, sports marketing
  • Thomas Deelmann, Corporate Management & Consulting
  • Peter Frielinghausen, Economics
  • Silke Hahn, PR and Corporate Communications
  • Wolfgang Jaspers, Business Administration
  • Andreas Kaiser, Knowledge and Innovation Management
  • Daniel Kaltofen, Neoclassical and Behavioral Finance
  • Gabriele Krone-Schmalz, TV & Media Studies
  • Stefan Lennardt, journalism & PR
  • Friedrich Schade, right
  • Claudia Schmeink, personnel psychology
  • Ebbo Tücking, Economics and founding management
  • Peter Vieregge, Lecturer Gründungsmanagement
  • Thomas Wittkop, Intercultural Management
  • Axel Wullenkord, financial management
  • Peter Wolf, business computer science

Lecturers

  • Gabriele Graf, film producer
  • Andreas Heine, former editor in chief of Radio MK
  • Bernhard Jünemann, business journalist
  • Klaus Kamps, communication scientists
  • Dietmar Krafft, economists
  • Herbert Krause, economists
  • Stefan Luczak, economists
  • Martin Nowak, Director
  • Frank Prywer, Head of Corporate Planning Department at ZDF
  • Christian circuit, Managing Director of 94.3 rs2
  • Armin Scholl, communication scientists

Known Students and Alumni

  • Lars Börgeling, pole vaulter, sports and event management
  • Stefan Lang Again, hockey player, Business and Management Studies
  • Maximilian Vollmar, actor, sports and event management
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