Hans-Bernd Kittlaus

is the owner and CEO of InnoTivum Consulting which he founded in 2001. Before he was Director of SIZ GmbH (Computing Center of the German Savings Banks Organization) and Head of Software Product Management and Development units of IBM. He is focussed on the cooperation of business and IT units with both corporate IT organizations and companies in the IT industry (see Focus Areas).

Hans-Bernd Kittlaus has published numerous articles and books (see Publications). He is Diplom-Informatiker (corresponds to M.S. in Computer Science) and certified Practitioner of the  Project Management Standard PRINCE2. He is member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, USA), GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik, Germany) and ISPMB (International Software Product Management Board). He is located near Cologne, Germany.

In his spare time he keeps himself busy with his family, tennis, literature and his passion - jazz - which he has written about in numerous articles and reviews (see www.hansberndkittlaus.de, in German).