By appointment

• Programme Director BSc International Management Double Degree (IMX)
• Programme Leader BSc International Management Double Degree (IMX) German-Polish
• Appointed liaison professor for the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)

• Production Management and Logistics
• Change Management
• Lean Enterprise Management

• Born: 1966
• Degree in electrical engineering at Kaiserslautern University and the University of Rhode Island, USA
• Manager of pan-European projects on production and business process optimisation at 3M Deutschland GmbH
• Head of staff department Manufacturing Process Optimization
• 1998 Appointed professor of "Produktionsorganisation- und -technik, Grundlagen der Verfahrens- und Steuerungstechnik und Qualitätsmanagement" (Production Organisation and Technology, Basics of Process and Control Technology and Quality Management) at Reutlingen University
• 2004-2006 Dean of the School of Production Management
• 2006-2007 Vice-President of Reutlingen University
• 2008-2009 Vice-Dean of ESB Business School
• Since 2009 Director of the Lean Enterprise Management Institute of the Knowledge Foundation at Reutlingen University

2023

Stephan Höfer, Manfred Estler: Mitarbeitergetriebener, funktionsübergreifender KVP in digitalen Prozessen. In: Johanna Bath, Katrin Winkler: Hybrid Work. Haufe Group Freiburg, 2023, S. 195 - 204.

Stephan Höfer, Oliver Mattmann: In Sieben Etappen zum Meeting Champion. Wiley Verlag 2023, ISBN-13 978-3527511631.

2021

Bock, Tobias; Höfer, Stephan. Autonomisierung von Shopfloor Management: Der Weg vom analogen zum autonomen Shopfloor Management. in: DOI 10.1515/zwf-2021-0027 ZWF 116 (2021) 3; p. 139 – 143, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, Germany, 2021, ISSN 0947-0085 ∙ e-ISSN 2511-0896

2019

Estler M, Höfer S. Der Einfluss der Digitalisierung auf zukünftige Unternehmens- und Produktionsstrukturen. In: Bauer W, Sihn W, Ohlhausen P, editors. Journal of Engineering, Management and Operations, Band 1. Zürich: Lit Verlag; 2019. p. 123-132. ISBN: 978-3-643-99768-5.

2018

Höfer, Stephan; Naeve, Jörg (2018): The Application of Lean Management in Higher Education. In: International Journal of Contemporary Management 16 (4), S. 63–80. DOI: 10.4467/24498939IJCM.17.038.8261. Publication year is 2018 as volume 16 (2017) was published in 2018

2016

Höfer, Stephan. Lean Sales: Steigerung des Wertschöpfungsanteils in Vertriebsprozessen in: Erfolgsfaktor Lean Management 2.0, (ed): H. Künzel, p. 189 - 208, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-49751-7