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 …
Succession Planning from a Long-Term Perspective
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, …
Additive Manufacturing Tools for Industrial Production
Steinbeis team advises injection molding firm on 3D printing in manufacturing
Injection molding is regarded as one of the most important processes in modern mass manufacturing. Not only does it enable large manufacturing volumes of both identical and different parts, …
The Benefits that Craftspeople Derive from VFMEA
Steinbeis Consulting Center achieves impressive results with its efficiency improvement instrument
There are plenty of quality improvement techniques to choose from, but if you need something that is suitable for a firm in the manual trades or an SME, something …
Climate Protection vs. Economic Viability
Steinbeis team publishes report on the energy-efficiency of commercial real estate
Combating climate change is an enormous societal challenge and one of the most pressing tasks on the political agenda – especially with regard to the real estate sector. In …
Seeing Sickness and a Crisis as an Opportunity
Steinbeis Consultant supports business founder with plans to set up a psychotherapy practice
In 2007, a tumble down the stairs turned Caren Totzauer’s life upside down. The once active mother suddenly found herself in a wheelchair. Still coming to terms …
Innovation models for the manufacturing and processing industry in Central Europe
Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum acts as partner on NUCLEi project
The most important European industries involved in automation and mechatronics are located in Central Europe. Although business in this area of industry operates on an intercontinental scale, the services relating to innovation in …
eHealthHub: Market Positioning
Steinbeis 2i supports eHealth SMEs
The EU-funded project eHealthHub offers valuable, high-quality business services to European companies active in the eHealth fi eld. It supports them to increase their visibility and strengthen their market positioning. Companies are also given legal …
Building bridges in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
Steinbeis organizes Pitchlab networking event in Greifswald
The Pitchlab networking event, which began in Rostock, is all about adding value, stimulating new ideas, and encouraging people to leave their comfort zone in order to forge networks and get to know …
Feature Topic: Early Birds – Young and Inspiring Ideas
Insights from Steinbeis experts
The future belongs to young people, we all know that. The Steinbeis experts from the articles that make up this edition’s feature topic also unanimously agree that we can expect plenty of new and interesting things …
Dear Readers,
The German business model is based, among other things, on a training system which is sure to be unique throughout the world. Ensuring people receive thorough training is achieved through a dual education system underpinned by academic education. Recent studies …
Calculating Wind Energy with Precision
Steinbeis team develops mathematical tool for certifying wind turbines
Generating power from renewable energy sources is a key focal point of the energy transition. It presents energy suppliers, grid operators, and turbine manufacturers with major challenges. The growing portion of …
„What we need to teach people is how to validate an idea and how it can be developed“
An interview with Professor Dr. Nils Högsdal, vice-chancellor of innovation and a professor of corporate finance and entrepreneurship at Stuttgart Media University
Professor Dr. Nils Högsdal talked to TRANSFER magazine about his affinity for the “Jugend gründet” contest for young …
When the Shine Wears off…
School team from Singen develops testing process for bike finishes
For about ten years, Friedrich Wöhler High School in Singen has been home to the student engineers academy (Schüler-Ingenieur-Akademie – SIA). Working with local businesses and universities, 10th graders have …
„You have to arouse children’s curiosity extremely early“
An interview with Professor Dr. Heinz Trasch, director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center Science, Technology & Economy
Professor Dr. Heinz Trasch talked to TRANSFER magazine about curiosity in children and how adults can support them. He also told us more …
Logistics – Green Shoots in the Economy
Education in sustainable business development – knowledge and not just action
Progress and change are important waypoints when it comes to the future of shipping services and logistics services. To remain competitive in a market suffering from increasingly tight margins, …
„The task of the older generation is to act as motivators or facilitators“
An interview with Professor Dr. Carsten H. Hahn, director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Innovation Engineering & Entrepreneurship // i2e, a professor at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, and an employee of SAP
Professor Dr. Carsten H. Hahn talks …
Light is so Illuminating!
Children and adolescents get to know a key technology: photonics
Why is the sky blue? Why do people have shadows? Children and young adults are being given a chance to explore the answers to these and many other questions as …
Just Test(bed) IT: Successfully Creating Added Value
Steinbeis Engineering Day 2017
Testbeds are the industry term for experimental platforms where companies from different sectors can work together to add value and network in a way that has never been seen before. Based on this concept, Steinbeis has …
How American Startups Motivate Others to Start their own Company
The winning team of Jugend gründet travels to Silicon Valley
Intense discussions about founding a business and the risks and opportunities startups face were a big part of the latest Steinbeis-sponsored trip to Silicon Valley. The winning team of the …
Steinbeis Day 2016: Young People with New Ideas Offering Plenty of Potential
Steinbeis forum brings students, apprentices, “Steinbeisers,” and the business community together at its interactive forum.
“Without Alexander Graham Bell there’d be no microphones. Without Paul Gottlieb Nipkow there’d be no TV. Without Ferdinand von Steinbeis...” Moderator Marcel Wagner painted a …
The 2016 Steinbeis Evening
The Steinbeis Foundation Transfer Prize – Löhn Award – goes to Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Karl Schekulin
Whereas this year’s Steinbeis Day revolved around the early bird ideas of the young generation at the Steinbeis House for Management and Technology, as is …
„Digital transformation and the challenges it poses are an opportunity for SMEs“
An interview with Michael Köhnlein and Peter Wittmann from the Steinbeis Digital Business Consortium
Michael Köhnlein and Peter Wittmann from the Steinbeis Digital Business Consortium explain how important digital solutions and networks are for companies, and how Steinbeis can help …
Making Specific Use of Diversity within a Company
Steinbeis team gets involved in a research project on diversity management It’s not just demographic or societal changes that are forcing German companies to rethink things, many companies are also actively involved in integrating jobseekers from around Europe or refugees …
Room for Innovation – Change makes Progress Possible
Steinbeis helps medium-sized enterprise with the ISO 9001 certification process
Graf-Syteco GmbH & Co. KG, a traditional company from the Baden-Württemberg city of Tuningen, has been an expert in operation and control technology for more than 30 years. It places …
Premiere for latest ECC Research Software Module
Tool now also makes it possible to conduct studies
A software module called ECC Research made its premiere at this year’s Steinbeis day, with visitors from the Steinbeis Network invited to a workshop to take a first look at the …
The Risk of Bankruptcy: Liability and Risk of Penalty
A look back at the 23rd Steinbeis Consulting Forum
A consulting session reveals that a company has liquidity gaps that could threaten its very survival – gaps that probably cannot be closed. Suddenly, the client and the consultant find themselves …
Keeping Tabs on Biogas Yields
Steinbeis develops biomass carousel as part of ZIM project
When biomass ferments, it produces biogas. Until now, determining biogas yields resulting from fermentation has involved a great deal of manual effort and time. Biogas yields were ascertained by hand using …
How to Make Integration Work
Steinbeis University Berlin helps refugees get a foot in the door on the German employment market
There has been very slow progress in integrating refugees into the employment market, even for those who come to Germany with a university degree. …