Steinbeis Consultant provides support with the setting up of e-scooter sales structures
What’s the quickest and most inexpensive way to travel a mile to work? This question resulted in the development of the business model for eScooter-fun.com. For Alexander Heinzelmann, …
The Quick, Quiet, and Low-Cost Road to an Eco-Friendly Future
Four Parties in One Network = Success
Steinbeis experts provide inventor with a helping hand entering the healthcare market
Dr. Michael Fürst, medical expert from the Upper Swabian city of Bad Wurzach, had been filing away at an innovative product with major market potential for a long …
Committed to Future Forms of Production
Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum runs a support center for the Vanguard Initiative in Baden-Wuerttemberg
The Vanguard initiative involves around 30 European regions, which have formed an alliance to “lead by example” and boost innovation and industrial growth in the EU. The core topics …
Inspired by Photonics
EU PHABLABS 4.0 project inspires the next generation
Light is one of those areas of technology that excites people. There are so many different sides to light, spanning a variety of fields. In fact, there are very few areas that …
Using Implants Without Side Effects
Research team working on EU IMMODGEL project develops innovative hydrogel-based system
Implants often trigger undesirable immune responses. The partners working on the EU IMMODGEL research project have developed a system consisting of chemical and biological components to avoid such negative …
Digital Product Service Systems – New Business Models for Manufacturing Companies
Steinbeis experts conduct research into the use of Product Service Systems as part of the Use PSS network
Digitalization is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. Everything regarding digital transformation revolves around the customer, whose expectations regarding products and the companies …
Feature Topic: Mobility
When people use the word mobility, they’re primarily referring to spatial movement – the moving around of living beings or objects within a physical space, building, or geographical area. The fact that mobility is now used to refer to much …
News from the Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute
Projects aimed at promoting digitalization
The Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute (FSTI) is part of the Steinbeis Foundation and as a research faculty of Steinbeis University Berlin (SHB) it conducts research into digitalization. The experts at the FSTI are involved in a …
On the Road to Industry 4.0: The Transformation of Mobility
Travel is not only a basic need, but also an expression of the freedom and flexibility of our modern age
In today’s society there are few topics that arouse such emotions and personal interest as the topic of travel, because …
“Multimodal transportation solutions are growing more and more important”
A conversation with Professor Dr. Peter Neugebauer, Director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Automotive Testing and Professor for Vehicle Electronics at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
How can a vehicle be protected from cyber-attacks? What will travel and transportation …
Safeguarding Mobility – Including in Old Age
The mechanical engineering specialist Reiser AG has been working with Steinbeis experts on the development of an electrically driven walking frame Demographic change is resulting in an aging population and this is raising the importance of mobility in old age. …
“The driver should become redundant”
An interview with Dr. Oliver Bühler and Dr. Daniel Ulmer, managing directors of Steinbeis Interagierende Systeme GmbH
Will we still be driving cars in the future or will cars drive us? To answer this question, a colossal volume of test …
Making Electric Vehicles Efficient and Safe!
Steinbeis experts help ARADEX with the implementation of a functional safety standard
ARADEX is a specialist producer of efficient power transmission systems and has been working with the Steinbeis Transfer Center for System Design on a joint project looking at …
“Probably the biggest challenge at the moment will be to solve mobility systems as part of an overall strategy”
An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Markus Stöckner, director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Infrastructure Management in Transportation
Mobility – being able to get around – is essential for any society to function properly. When looking at mobility, it’s important …
Volatility in the General Cargo Logistics Market
Steinbeis experts co-develop a forecasting tool
The Steinbeis Innovation Center for Research in Transport and Logistics is working alongside TLT Berlin as part of a 12-month research initiative sponsored by the State of Brandenburg. The aim of the project is …
A New Way to Fly!
Steinbeis provides support on the testing of a hybrid aircraft called "h-aero"
A startup from Baden-Wuerttemberg has developed a patented, innovative hybrid airplane that offers all the advantages of aircraft while still addressing the sustainability requirements of modern travel solutions …
Putting Travel Solutions Through Their Paces
Steinbeis experts determine the impact of mobility trends
To convey the general need to travel around freely and make this understandable, statistics are needed. It doesn’t matter whether people need to move around in cities or out in the countryside, …
Digital mobility – future or true reality?
Or: How a raw diamond can be grinded
Digital transformation and Industry 4.0 (connected manufacturing) have been creeping around in the corridors of business, research, and politics for some time now – not forgetting the corridors of society and social …
A Shaolin Monastery for Managing Product Life Cycles, Smart Factories, and Digital Solutions
Steinbeis experts launch training to become a PLM Principal Consultant
Digitalization, smart production (Industry 4.0) – these are topics that everyone seems to be talking about at the moment. That’s all right, because if Germany misses out on the digital …
Focusing on Users
Steinbeis experts help mechatronics specialist take a user-focused approach to developing product variants
2E mechatronic has specialized for over 15 years in developing innovative mechatronic products in the fields of sensors, precision injection, and microsystems technology. The company has continued …
Refresher Course on Practical ECC Skills
Steinbeis experts offer new training method
The Steinbeis Enterprise Competence Check© (ECC) is becoming increasingly popular among consultants, 100 of whom have now received ECC training and are thus qualified to use ECC methods for their consulting projects. The ECC …
The 2017 Hilzingen Business Founder Day
Steinbeis expertise to be showcased at regional startup event
In 2015, Rupert Metzler, the mayor of Hilzingen, a rural community outside Constance, started an initiative for business founders. What started out as an “open surgery” session at the town hall …
Successfully Value Selling Business-to-Business Products That Require Detailed Explanation
SHB graduate develops successful sales campaign
What’s the best way to sell business-to-business (B2B) products that need careful explanation and emphasize the value they add? What are the challenges faced by a differentiated premium supplier in showcasing the value it …
Networked To The Power of N
A look back at the Steinbeis Products Seek Producers exhibition: Digital media in Karlsruhe
Inform, exchange ideas, meet new people, share knowledge – in a nutshell, these are the main benefits of the unique series of Products Seek Producers (PsP) …
Smart Cities: Integrated Solutions for Smart Cities
Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum shares results of European projects
Cities play an important role in protecting the environment. They are centers and drivers of innovation, partly because they have every potential to bring the representatives of key interest groups around the same table. …
Beckoned by the Market in South America
SHB alumnus launches hi-tech products in Brazil
Adriana Diaz del Pinal Laidig describes the fact that she now lives in Stuttgart at the age of 30 as nothing but a sequence of coincidences. After graduating from high school in her …
Succession Planning from a Long-Term Perspective
Steinbeis helps metalworking company sell its business
Every year in Germany, as many as 80,000 family-owned businesses face succession issues. If the owners’ children have different career aspirations, internal succession may no longer be possible. Usually, the only remaining option …
How Coaching Can Prevent a Resignation
Steinbeis consultant advises managers on career progression
Does having a personal coach actually make a difference? This is the kind of skepticism Birgit Nüchter often faces as director of the Stuttgart-based Steinbeis Consulting Center for Leadership Competence. There are extremely …
From Mythical Disruption to “Go for Disruption!”
Steinbeis afterwork events in Berlin, Munich, and Stuttgart
Thanks to the work of Clayton M. Christensen 20 years ago, the term ‘disruption’ is now a unique description of how a powerful idea can turn everything on its head, destroying established …
High Performance, Attentiveness, and New Energy for Managers
SCMT event on “Business Impetus” on April 28, 2017
The work environment is becoming more and more stressful with less and less time to get things done. To cope with the increasing workload, digitalization, and constantly changing requirements, people need …
New MARKETING & MEDIA CAMPUS Gets Underway
Steinbeis SMI and HORIZONT offer part-time seminar program
HORIZONT, the German specialist magazine for marketing, advertising, and the media, is pooling its competence with the Steinbeis School of Management and Innovation (Steinbeis- SMI) at Steinbeis University Berlin. Their combined services …
Care and Recovery in Old Age
Steinbeis experts provide academic input on interprofessional education initiative
Elderly patients receiving geriatric care often have more than one medical condition. Such patients require medical support and nursing care that accounts for these different conditions during convalescence. As a result, …