Klaus Henning (born 1945)https://www.ifu.rwth-aachen.de/en/ ''Institute for Management Cybernetics'' is a German information scientist. He held the professorship of Information Management in Mechanical Engineering and was director of the Center for Learning and Knowledge Management at

RWTH Aachen RWTH Aachen University (), in German ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen'', is a German public research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With more than 47,000 students enrolled in 144 study prog ...

Professional career

Klaus Henning studied electrical engineering and political sciences. He did his doctorate in the field of human-machine-systems. His habilitation dealt with entropy in the field of

Systems theory Systems theory is the Transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary study of systems, i.e. cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent components that can be natural or artificial. Every system has causal boundaries, is influenced by its context, de ...

. In the year 1985 he accepted the professorship of Cybernetic Methods at

, which was renamed to Computer Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1994 and to Information Management in Mechanical Engineering in 2008. Simultaneously, he accepted the management of today’s Center for Learning and Knowledge Management, the former Center of University Didactics at RWTH Aachen. From 2004 to 2008 he was dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen. Henning is a member of the board of Associated Institute for Management Cybernetics (IfU) e.V. at RWTH Aachen. He was chairman of the supervisory board of Xenium AG in Munich as well as chairman of the board of ABWF in Berlin and he also was a member of the university council of

Saarland University Saarland University (, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in six faculties that cover all major ...

Focus of work

* Software-(re)engineering of large-scale IT-systems for the automotive industry * Cybernetics for businesses and

Change Management Change management (CM) is a discipline that focuses on managing changes within an organization. Change management involves implementing approaches to prepare and support individuals, teams, and leaders in making organizational change. Change mana ...

* Systemic communication- and

Organization development Organization development (OD) is the study and implementation of practices, systems, and techniques that affect organizational change. The goal of which is to modify a group's/organization's performance and/or culture. The organizational chang ...

; * Participatory learning processes * Learning networks and competency development

Publications

* ''Die Kunst der kleinen Lösung.'' Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2014, . * ''Smart und digital - Wie künstliche Intelligenz unser Leben verändert'' Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2019, . * 250 scientific papers, 20 monographs, approx. 30 publications as publisher

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Henning, Klaus 20th-century German scientists German systems scientists Cyberneticists 1945 births Academic staff of Saarland University Living people Academic staff of RWTH Aachen University