The term “New Mittelstand” brings together two worlds: startups on the one hand and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) on the other. The new and novel meet the tried and tested. The declared goal: to prepare Germany’s successful SMEs for …
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How Mittelstand Enterprises Stand to Benefit from Company Acquisitions
Steinbeis experts support SMEs with expansion strategies and financing growth
Many in Germany associate corporate takeovers and acquisitions with companies listed on the DAX (the stock market index in Germany). For medium-sized enterprises, acquiring another business presents an enticing opportunity …
Tracking Resources
Resource conservation in production: a key success factor
Skills shortages, international competition, and high wages underscore just how crucial it is to continuously optimize the use of resources at all stages of the value chain. To help with this issue, …
Digital Transformation – an Opportunity for Mittelstand Enterprises
The Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute introduces SMEs to new business models and working in ecosystems
Since the earliest phase of the industrial revolution at the end of the 18th century, which was triggered by the steam engine, to the second phase …
From Business Intelligence to Business Competence
Steinbeis experts co-develop an AI-driven support system to improve the management of skills requirements
Companies currently face a variety of complex challenges, with constant changes in the business environment compelling them to question their business models – in some cases …
Mittelstand: The Next Generation
A team of Steinbeis experts increasingly solves succession issues by pulling together teams from inside and outside companies
According to the 2022 KfW Succession Monitoring Report, there is an “increasing shortage of succession candidates.” The authors of the report cite …
Time for a New Way of Thinking – The Changing Nature of the Mittelstand
A team of experts from Stralsund university comes up with different ways for Mittelstand companies to continue underpinning the German economy
Innovation, quality, change – steadfast companions of the Mittelstand, the bedrock of SMEs in Germany. Mittelstand firms are currently …
“Mittelstand companies place particular emphasis on values”
An interview with Steinbeis Entrepreneur Professor Dr. Georg von Schnurbein
The term itself is enough to highlight the expectations faced by the new generation of SMEs in Germany – the New Mittelstand, where things new and global now intersect with …
The new Mittelstand
The very term highlights the POTENTIAL TO FOSTER CHANGE and a COLLISION OF TWO WORLDS: NEW MITTELSTAND – the successful transferral of the tried and tested into the FUTURE while also exploiting opportunities to bring about something new. In other …
SMEs on the Path to Industry 5.0
Professor Dr.-Ing. Adrian Pisla explains why SMEs need an environment that lays emphasis on social and technological factors
The Engineering & Management Steinbeis Enterprise – or EMSEC – was founded in March 2023 in Cluj-Napoca, a city in Transylvania in …
Actively Managing Marketing and Sales Risk with the Steinbeis VMI SRAM Model
Steinbeis experts help SMEs shield themselves from market volatilities and inaccurate risk assessments
When crises become part of everyday life, it is important to be prepared and resilient against such threats – especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. Help in …
A Brave New World of Work? A report based on personal observations
bwcon embarks on a journey to find a new form of collaboration
In the beginning was conviction. That the company, your own company, would be more successful if everyone worked together beyond individual teams, if they were familiar with the …
Successful Together: How SMEs Succeed with Innovation
Collaboration between Mannheim University of Applied Sciences and Steinbeis results in two startups
Sharing the knowledge and technology offered by universities is an important building block of innovation. Collaboration between Mannheim University of Applied Sciences and the Steinbeis Transfer Center …
The Steinbeis Innovation Hub Brings Together SMEs and Startups
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the German economy.[1] it is therefore crucial that SMEs continue to develop, establish strength, and exploit the potential of emerging technology to sustain. Partnerships with startups play an important role in …
“The Mittelstand continues to form the backbone of the German economy”
An interview with Steinbeis entrepreneur Dr. Oliver Hettmer
Medium-sized companies have seldom been faced with more diverse and demanding challenges. In an interview for TRANSFER magazine, Dr. Oliver Hettmer, an expert in the issues faced by SMEs, explains why the …
Mittelstand Pioneers – Success Fueled by Value Creating Collaboration
Turning the spotlight on sustainability
For SMEs, having clearly defined innovation strategies and being open to collaboration during the process of innovation are crucial prerequisites for competing successfully as an innovator. Their agile mindset and willingness to forge partnerships underscore …
“I always appeal for firms to actively shape transformation within the company”
An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Markus Weinberger, Steinbeis Entrepreneur at the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Digital Expertise and an expert in digital transformation
Upheaval has become the new normal and this is also affecting the processes of business transformation for …