Feature Topic: Diversity – A Society Undergoing Change
Insights from Steinbeis experts
Demographic change, skills shortages, increasing transnational business, the individualization of lifestyles, digital transformation, and the increasingly networked nature of the world we live and work in as a result of globalization: In the future, companies will …
Dear Readers,
Let’s start with this first edition of TRANSFER magazine in 2018 by briefly looking back at the focus topics last year. The four leading topics in 2017 were: Always on the Go; Achieve More through the Network; Thinking Laterally: Thinking …
So if it’s Agile, That’ll Do?!
Why do a growing number of companies want to be agile? The Steinbeis expert Prof. Dr. Kai Renz digs deeper
Agile – one of those modern buzzwords. Lots of firms want to finally “get agile” – and ideally they would …
This Has Major Potential!
Peer Coaching on the promotion of intercultural skills
Diversity offers a whole host of opportunities to companies, plus plenty of potential, but it also holds challenges and threats. Dr. Sabine Horst explains how companies can make efficient use of the …
Navigating on Icebergs
Diversity management and its role as a compass while society and work environments undergo change
What impact does diversity have not just in terms of image, but also as a driver of innovation? What can companies do to furnish society …
“A diversity of opinions results in people making better decisions”
An interview with Professor Dr. Barbara Burkhardt-Reich and Professor Dr. Elke Theobald, directors of the Business Development Steinbeis Enterprises at Pforzheim University
Professor Dr. Barbara Burkhardt-Reich and Professor Dr. Elke Theobald, directors of the Business Development Steinbeis Enterprises at Pforzheim …
Coding is Cool
Girls are also great mathematicians
To not just cope with digital transformation in the years to come, but also drive it, you have to start by looking at the things that inspire people, pique their curiosity, and motivate them to …
“Diversity within a company releases creative ideas and drives innovation”
An interview with Dr. Jörg Hruby and Professor Dr. Thomas Hanke, directors of the Steinbeis Consulting Center Global Mindset & Leadership
Internationalization and globalization place new demands on companies and their managers. TRANSFER Magazine invited Dr. Jörg Hruby and Professor …
Diversity and its Role as a Success Factor in Companies
Diversity and equal opportunity at the workplace
Some companies still struggle with the idea of taking on older applicants, or applicants with different ethnic backgrounds or socio-cultural heritages, or even the disabled. Yet there are so many good examples of …
“People are appreciated for what they are”
An interview with Professor Dr. Armin Trost, professor for HR management at Furtwangen University (HFU)
Diversity in HR management: Social diversity fuels variety in the world of work. How do HR managers deal with this, what challenges do they face, …
Victory to Diversity
The advantages of setting up a company as a team
Driven by the increasingly networked nature of processes, tools, and product content across all kinds of sectors of industry and fields of competence, it is becoming essential to work in …
Touching Frogs
Dealing with and solving conflicts
Social diversity is becoming increasingly important but at the same time, so are the demands placed on people in terms of how to deal with the different nature of groups and individuals. As a result, …
The Other View on Innovating
Tap into diversity with the Competence Explorer!
Steinbeis offers major opportunities to link up competences and provide even better, even more comprehensive services. The key focus of the “The Other View on Innovating” initiative is to draw attention to the …
iENA: A Tradition of Innovating
Steinbeis experts now in their tenth year alongside exhibitors at the international trade show of ideas and inventions
“We’ve got to take that one to iENA” – people working at the Infothek Steinbeis Transfer Center in Villingen-Schwenningen are used to …
Xavin: A Platform for Local and Emotion-Based Investments
The Steinbeis consultant Mario Buric helps a team of business founders on the journey to self-employment
Tobias Ungerer has been a passionate member of local clubs since his childhood. Whether it was soccer, skiing, or tennis – everything he’s done …
Leaping into a Digital Future
A business owner from Esslingen shows how digital transformation can be made to work in manual trades
Craftsmen involved in the manual trades will have to fast-track digital transformation in the coming years – something the chambers of craft industries …
“For me, there’s nothing more exciting than being at the forefront and witnessing the very latest technology”
An interview with Dr. Christian May, manager of Transfer Platform Industry 4.0, the Steinbeis Innovation Center
Dr. Christian May of the Transfer Platform Industry 4.0 Steinbeis Innovation Center talks about the issues SMEs face due to digital transformation and how …
Advice for Startups over Breakfast
A networking event at the gym
A networking event of a different kind took place in Stuttgart late last year: a breakfast for business founders in a gym. The startup breakfast is a grass-roots format initiated several years ago by …
Life Phase-Oriented Staff Training Bears Fruit
The First Competence Services Advisors (SHB) complete their training
The Steinbeis Transfer Institute competence institute unisono (kiu) has joined forces with SteginkGroup- Akademie to offer older staff members certified training to become a Competence Services Advisor (SHB). The focus lies …
The 7th Bestowal of the Dr. Ivo Holzinger Award
The School of Management and Technology at SHB honors the top bachelor graduates
The School of Management and Technology at Steinbeis University Berlin (SHB) bestowed the Dr. Ivo Holzinger Award to the top graduates on its bachelor degree program for …
The 2017 German Raw Material Efficiency Award Goes to REProMag
Steinbeis 2i acted as partner to the EU project
The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy awards the German Raw Material Efficiency Award for outstanding examples of products, processes, and services that make efficient use of materials. It also …
Consulting X.0 – Networking. Digital transformation. Convergence.
The 2018 Steinbeis Consulting Day
There is nothing permanent except change, as Heraclitis already knew in 500 AD. 2,500 years later, change is still ever-present. Current societal, technological, and economic developments are changing companies and thus also changing business consulting. …
Mission Germany
Steinbeis experts develop export training concept for Estonian companies
Estonia is one of the most recent new members of the European Union and its economic performance is good. The Baltic nation has one of the most modern government administrations in …
Leadership.Education.Personality.
A review of the 2017 Steinbeis Competence Day
More than 200 people attended the Steinbeis Competence Day in the Stuttgart Haus der Wirtschaft (House of Commerce) on December 6, 2017. The question they came to examine was how important leadership …
Cultural Transformation in a Traditional Company
Steinbeis experts provide support to a long-term change management initiative at K+S Kali GmbH
What’s the best way to boost the competitiveness of a business division, make it more powerful through redeveloped business processes, and at the same time promote …
“Germany stands in its own way because of its incomparable jungle of rules and regulations”
TRANSFER magazine talks to Dominik Fehringer, director of the Economic Region of Ortenau (WRO)
The concept is in place – but will it translate into a business enterprise? This is just one of the many questions the Economic Region of …
Innovations Promote Sustainability in Forestry
The Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum (SEZ) acts as partner in the project Forwarder2020
Biomass from forestry makes a valuable contribution to renewable resources needed for the transition to alternative energy sources. At the same time, managing forests innovatively can help preserve soil in …
What’s That on the Roof?
Steinbeis introduces a solar panel inventory to analyze the energy potential of universities in Hesse
The experts at the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Geoinformation and Land Management have been dedicated to the potential of solar energy for years. The center …
Still a Long Way to Go: Digital Transformation in Sales and Marketing
Steinbeis experts and the specialist magazine Acquisa unveil the 2017 Digital Transformation Index
How digital are German companies in their marketing and sales departments? Is there a benchmark for digital transformation? Or perhaps one could ask: How far have digital …
Securing the Future: Comprehensive Integrated Management
Steinbeis experts provide support with ISOcompatible risk and opportunity management
ProTec, based in Würselen west of Cologne, is not just one of those standard, medium-sized B2B traders of industrial supplies – it’s an innovative developer and producer of customized, one-off …
What Really Matters for German Companies: Lifting the Veil of Mystery Surrounding Silicon Valley
Georg Bauser to visit Steinbeis Geschäfts!mpulse
Georg Bauser visited Geschäfts!mpulse at the Steinbeis Center of Management and Technology on April 19, 2018. Formerly the long-standing director of business operations at Airbnb, the online marketplace for lodging, Bauser revealed his experiences …
Keep Up the Good Collaboration!
The steel specialist Dillinger intensifies its strategic partnership with material researchers in Saarland
The Saarland steel company AG of Dillinger Hüttenwerke (Dillinger) plans to intensify its strategic collaboration with the departments of material science and materials technology at the University …
A Passionate European Passes the Baton
Change of leadership at the Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum and the office of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Commissioner for Europe
After 15 successful years as the Commissioner for Europe for the Baden-Wuerttemberg Minister of Economic Affairs and as the director of the Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum (SEZ), Prof. …