Bernd Heesen, D.M.,is Professor of Managment at the University of Applied Sciences in Ansbach and CEO of Prescient, a management consultancy. He received his Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership from the University of Phoenix in 2004 and a Master in Management Information Systems from the Technical University Darmstadt and has been teaching courses related to strategy, management information systems, project management and consulting for many years. He was a member of SAP's Global University Alliance Curriculum Initiative for Business Intelligence. He has been invited to teach courses at leading business schools in Europe, USA, Asia and Australia.Professor Heesen also looks back on a career of more than 10 years in consulting, serving global customers like Nike, Anheuser Busch, Coca-Cola, Eastman Chemicals, US Navy and many others on all continents. Prior to his academic career Professor Heesen was management consultant at Price Waterhouse, founder and President of the International Consulting Group, co-founder and President of Prescient Consulting and President of SAP SI America. In the year 2000 his company, Prescient Consulting, was recognized as one of the “HOT 100 – America’s fastest growing new businesses” by Entrepreneur Magazine and Dun & Bradstreet.