Pop-Up Lab stops by at the DigiTAL Schramberg event
From October 16 to 23, 2020, the seventh BW Pop-Up Lab made a stop in the Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg region – for the first time virtually, due to current circumstances. Based on the …
Digitalization Boost for the Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg Region
Can Salespeople Push Away Customers?
Running sales professionally is the best way to show customers how much you value them, argues Steinbeiser Winfried Küppers
Sales-driven companies drive away customers – baloney, some would say, since sales departments attract customers. Precisely, say others, pointing to examples …
Small structures in focus
A research team from Mannheim develops measurement technology for assessing structural and material differences on surfaces
Whether a surface is roughly soiled is recognizable at a glance. However, this is much more difficult in the case of small and invisible …
Data Cooperatives: An Opportunity for AI in german SMEs
The Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institute designs a cooperative concept for the digital space
Digital solutions can be used to create replicas of real objects in a digital setting – for example in production – by creating a digital twin of a processing unit. …
Scrolling In on Usability and the User Experience
SME 4.0 Center of Excellence for Usability forms partnership with bwcon
Physical distancing during the coronavirus pandemic has made the presence of digital technology much more tangible in many areas of life. And one thing already seems certain: There will …
The Crisis is Over, or Maybe not…
The Steinbeis Advanced Risk Technologies Group has developed a cloud platform that makes it possible to manage in a crisis and provides optimal support
Covid-19 has probably been the most global pandemic there has ever been – by a long …
The Green Deal and “From Farm to Fork”: EU Strategies for Improving the Food System and Biological Diversity
Team at Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum provides support with submitting applications to the EU
By launching its Green Deal strategy, the EU is pursuing its goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2050. The Green Deal is considered the most ambitious environmental legislation proposal submitted …
Mental Fitness – A Strength of Leadership
Steinbeiser Dr. Michael Ullmann works with managers and leading sportspeople on mental strengths
Attempts to improve mental fitness often fail because people don’t have a starting point in terms of tangible numbers or values: If you don’t know how you …
Typing is a Thing of the Past
How electronic pens are helping to digitalize forms in the public health service
Dr. Wilhelm Peters of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Site Management and Business Development has joined forces with TAKWA to develop a system that makes it possible …
The Potential Offered by Second-Chance Entrepreneurship
Steinbeis expert Samantha Michaux talks about the opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurial re-starts
Germany lacks a culture of embracing failure. Insolvency and failure are seen too little as an opportunity and instead more or less considered as a blemish. This …
Successful Digitalization – How to Improve Productivity and Quality
Steinbeis student develops a concept for digitalizing contractual procedures and invoicing
Companies have little choice these days when it comes to processes – they need to be as digital as possible if they want to remain competitive. There are a …
A Decisive Factor: Trust
The Digital Trust Forum fosters trust in digital solutions used with physical assets
With a growing number of smart and connected products now entering into the world of digital technology, issues relating to the information that is gathered and how …
From the end of the paper mess: The e-prescription as a game changer
Team of Steinbeis experts assesses the opportunities and threats of e-prescriptions
According to a study into digital healthcare conducted by the German industry association BITKOM, half of all Germans feel the healthcare industry needs to “go digital,” especially if mounting …
The Ultimate Challenge of Project Management
An interview with Steinbeis Entrepreneur Dr. Karen Dittmann and parsQube CEO Mehrschad Zaeri on the topic of hybrid project design
Constructing a hospital, introducing new software at a company, re-organizing a company division – very different tasks, but they all …
Operation 4.0 – Data-Enabling in Healthcare
When KONRAD ZUSE unveiled the Z3 in 1941, the world’s first PROGRAMMABLE COMPUTER, nobody could have imagined that not even a century later, computers and the DIGITAL SOLUTIONS they have spawned would permeate almost every area of modern life. And …
“I’m convinced telemedicine won’t be a substitute for visiting the doctor, it’ll complement it”
An interview with Angelika Walliser, general practitioner, surgeon, and head of Reutlingen Emergency Room
Have you ever consulted a doctor as a telemedicine patient? Or do you have your doubts about telemedicine? Do you see telemedicine as a good way …
Dear Readers,
More than a century ago, Willem Einthoven transmitted simple heartbeats remotely through a telegraph wire, laying the foundation for the development of a pioneering new discipline: telemedicine. Sensors are not just getting smaller and smaller, they now come with intelligent …
“It’s important that every individual is given a chance to get to know a technology”
An interview with Stefan Lob, CEO of Praxis für Führung – X.0 GmbH
It’s no secret that despite the opportunities offered by new technology, some people fundamentally distrust it. Even if many people would not feel averse to innovation in …
Restart Your Future – Success Nurtured by Networks
bwcon helps small and medium-sized businesses manage organizational transformation
Developing new areas of business can be time-consuming and is a drain on personnel resources. Yet it plays an important role in fueling growth and securing the success of a company. …
“People will only start to trust future technology if they’re kept informed, they’re educated, and they’re offered transparency”
An interview with Dr. med. Thomas Wüst, specialist for orthopedics and sports medicine
The key task of an orthopedic surgeon is to promote the development of the musculoskeletal system and to treat degenerative conditions. This task remains the same in …
Sensor-Driven Diagnostics: Immediate, Reliable, and Quick
Bioelectronic sensors play an increasingly central role in patient treatment
Each person’s metabolism is different, and thus the effect of a medicine on patients depends on the individual. In the future, it will be possible to identify the ideal combination …
Prof. Dr. Peter Neugebauer
Steinbeis mourns the death of Prof. Dr. Peter Neugebauer, who passed away in April at the age of 55 following a short but serious illness. As well as his role at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Peter Neugebauer was extremely …
The limitations of production
Steinbeiser Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Kipfmüller discusses possible solutions to the crisis
Manufacturing has always adhered to similar rules, ever since the Industrial Revolution. Raw materials are taken and processed, using energy to convert them into products. The value this adds …
Big Data? Sure, Big Data!
Data in the healthcare industry – an essay on potential and challenges
Data are the raw materials of the 21st (our!) century – one of the most frequent things people say about big data. But what actually are big data? …
“People have begun to understand that we can use technology to add new value”
An interview with Matthias Struck, deputy head of the department Image Processing and Medical Engineering at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS.
A T-shirt that measures your heartrate, shoes that count how many kilometers you’ve walked, a fitness tracker …
Data – The Basis for Tomorrow’s Business Models
Understanding customer problems and solving them sustainably
The rapid growth of the internet has ushered in an enormous flood of data, bringing a whole new dynamic to information exchange processes. This development raises a number of questions – from ethical …
#techourfuture: The Future of Healthcare – Medicine, People, and Technology
Everyone is talking healthcare – we’re (also) talking technology!
Following the successful kick-off in late 2019 of the #techourfuture series of events on current and future developments in the field of autonomous flying, the second event organized by the Ferdinand …
“Data must be properly protected”
An interview with Professor Dr. Tobias Preckel (Steinbeis Transfer Center for Medical Engineering & Life Sciences) and Professor Dr. Sascha Seifert (Steinbeis Transfer Center for E-Health Systems and Medical Informatics)
Artificial intelligence, big data, the cloud – digital transformation is …
The Key Importance of Data
Steinbeis experts develop a digital data ecosystem for clinical studies
Somehow it sounds like a paradox: Advancements in medicine over the last decade are one of the reasons why in the future, caring for people will still be a major …
CYTOREADER: AI and Fighting Cancer
Steinbeis experts tap into artificial intelligence for the early recognition of cervical cancer
Cervical carcinoma – more commonly known as cervical cancer – does not normally start with any obvious symptoms, or discomfort that makes it easier to make an …
Discovering the World through Experimentation
Experimentation World in Rottweil combines play with education
July 24, and everything was ready to go: Experimentation World on the Schule-Wirtschaft Campus in the Neckar Valley in Rottweil opened its doors and invited visitors to try experimenting with technology. It …
World-Class COVID Research in Oncology
Steinbeis experts investigate the progression of SARS-CoV-2 infections in oncological patients as part of a consortium project
How can the oncological treatment of cancer patients with COVID-19 be optimized? This is the question posed by experts working on a project …