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Guido H. Baltes is Director of the IST Innovation Institute in Constance, visiting professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing and the Rady School of Management at the University of California in San Diego. As an expert in strategic transformation and innovation, he combines a solid business background and experience as a successful entrepreneur with internationally renowned research:
He was responsible for strategy & marketing in the executive management team of a top 3 IT service company in Germany and, as (co)founder, has successfully set up several start-ups - including Coliquio, the largest medical community in the German-speaking countries and, most recently, Unisphere, a start-up providing flight management for stratosphere-flying drones. As a mentor for startups, he supports student founders at the Lake Constance’ Universities and the BMoE Startup Bootcamp of the SCET Entrepreneurship Center at the University of California Berkeley.
Since 2009, he his research is focused on organizational design issues in the context of strategic innovation and corporate entrepreneurship. Based on this, he regularly supports companies in implementing innovation-based growth strategies and their digital transformation. He is author of multiple internationally refereed journal and book articles. Most recently, together with Antje Freyth, he has published "Veränderungsintelligenz” (Change Intelligence), the standard handbook for executive and strategic management in strategic and particularly digital transformation.