Steinbeis expert Professor Dr. Helmut Beckmann supports SMEs with the process of digital transformation
Digital transformation in companies is a central driver of advancement and even drives the upheaval strategies, processes, business methods, and technological progress. However, more than half …
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The Technology Radar – Compass for Systematic Technology Management
The Selling of Consulting Services Goes Online
How do you play things in a buyer’s market in times of digitalization?
Digital transformation has had a massive impact on the way markets work. A seller’s market, which was about stimulating customer demand, is increasingly changing into a buyer’s …
A Habitat for Digital Twins
A team of researchers from Mannheim expands the fundamental concept of digital transformation
How do I turn my physical product into a smart product of the future? This is the question many producers are forced to ask themselves when they …
Loss of Control During the Digital Transformation Process Factors influencing and shaping technology acceptance in Baden-Wuerttemberg
As part of a study, the Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute investigates the impact of loss of Control on attitudes toward new technology among the general public
In 2018, the Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute (FSTI) launched its #techourfuture initiative with the aim of …
How a Strong Corporate Culture Helps Firms Succeed with Digital Transformation
Steinbeis experts examine agile teams at SMEs as part of a pilot project
The Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute (FSTI), Steinbeis 2i, and bwcon have joined forces with a variety of business partners as part of a project called Agile Teams – …
Agile Teams: A Key Success Factor for Digital Transformation in Value Creation Networks
The Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute provides support for cross-company and cross-industry collaboration
Digital transformation can be a major challenge for the manual trades and industrial enterprises. Not only do they have to question familiar ways of thinking, they also have to …
ENTERPRISE COMPETENCES X.0: MASTERING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
A look back at the 2019 Steinbeis Competence Day
Describing organizational competences as the cornerstone of long-term business success is nothing new – especially in times marked by one series after another of technology trends, convergence, continual change, increasingly connected …
UPHOLDING SUCCESS DURING TIMES OF CHANGE
Efficient and effective support with business development
Dynamic markets, digital transformation, staff loyalty, HR development, the cost squeeze – companies have to follow so many different issues when preparing for the future. And at the same time, everything is getting …
“WE NEED EXPERTS, BUT AT THE SAME TIME THEY SHOULD BE GENERALISTS.”
An interview with Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Haas, Director of the Steinbeis Transfer Institute for Transfer Technologies and Integrated Systems (SITIS), and Oliver Brehm, Director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Innovation and Organization
In an era of digital technology, will …
DEAR READERS,
The disruption of established business models and the erosion of traditional markets have opened the eyes of many businesses to the fact that digitalization will fundamentally change industry throughout the world. There is a tangible sense in the current discussion …
ECONOMY X.0: A CHALLENGE TO BUSINESS AND SOCIETY
For business enterprises, the economy, and society, digital transformation involves change
In Germany, more and more people are using the term Economy 4.0 in the current debate about increasing levels of digitalization. Dr. Michael Ortiz, head of innovation and transfer …
“I WOULD PLEAD FOR MORE EMPHASIS ON THE CONCRETE BENEFITS WHEN CONSIDERING THE POTENTIAL OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION.”
An interview with Prof. Dr. Claas Christian Wuttke, director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Smart Services – Innovation and Development
Digital transformation can be particularly challenging for small and medium-sized enterprises. The question is why, especially given that SMEs …
SMART ANYTHING EVERYWHERE – DIGITALIZATION FOR EVERYONE
Digital innovation hubs: a key ingredient of digital transformation
Working in collaboration with Hahn-Schickard, Steinbeis 2i is offering companies access to Smart Anything Everywhere (SAE), a strategic initiative of the European Commission. The aim is for all companies in Europe …
ECONOMY X.0: SMEs SHAPE UP FOR A DIGITAL FUTURE
The Baden-Wuerttemberg Industry 4.0 Transfer Platform translates digital transformation trends into practice at SMEs
Industrial trends are accelerating at an incredible speed. Within a short space of time, a variety of global techniques and technologies have become established, rapidly resulting …
“STAFF NEED TO BE BROUGHT ON BOARD”
An interview with Prof. Dr. Daniel Palm, director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center Industrie 4.0 and digitalization and the Steinbeis Transfer Platform Industry 4.0
Digital transformation provides companies with completely new possibilities to add value, but it also spells significant …
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION MEANS A LOT MORE THAN DIGITALIZATION
Small and medium-sized enterprises need to do more than digitalize processes – they also need to keep overhauling their business models
The discussion surrounding digitalization and digital transformation has been a wake-up call for industry. Succeeding with digital transformation is …
LEADERSHIP IN A DIGITAL WORLD
Symposium debates ways to actively shape the future
Digital transformation and the changes it brings about are influencing companies all around the world, as well as other areas of life. Gearing business and society in general to future developments will …
MAKING A SUCCESS OUT OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN WHOLESALING
Toolbox developed by the Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institute prepares wholesalers for the future
Digital transformation – it’s like a modern mantra. But before using digital technology, a company has to put good thought into future possibilities to add value – or value creation …
“It’s only a problem if you sleep through the transformation”
An interview with Horst Maywald, an expert who worked for Elabo for decades and Steinbeis partner
Horst Maywald talks to TRANSFER magazine about successful ways to achieve digital transformation in business. Maywald has first-hand experience of the process at Elabo …