The term “New Mittelstand” brings together two worlds: startups on the one hand and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) on the other. The new and novel meet the tried and tested. The declared goal: to prepare Germany’s successful SMEs for …
Month: November 2023
How Mittelstand Enterprises Stand to Benefit from Company Acquisitions
Steinbeis experts support SMEs with expansion strategies and financing growth
Many in Germany associate corporate takeovers and acquisitions with companies listed on the DAX (the stock market index in Germany). For medium-sized enterprises, acquiring another business presents an enticing opportunity …
Tracking Resources
Resource conservation in production: a key success factor
Skills shortages, international competition, and high wages underscore just how crucial it is to continuously optimize the use of resources at all stages of the value chain. To help with this issue, …
Digital Transformation – an Opportunity for Mittelstand Enterprises
The Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute introduces SMEs to new business models and working in ecosystems
Since the earliest phase of the industrial revolution at the end of the 18th century, which was triggered by the steam engine, to the second phase …
From Business Intelligence to Business Competence
Steinbeis experts co-develop an AI-driven support system to improve the management of skills requirements
Companies currently face a variety of complex challenges, with constant changes in the business environment compelling them to question their business models – in some cases …
Mittelstand: The Next Generation
A team of Steinbeis experts increasingly solves succession issues by pulling together teams from inside and outside companies
According to the 2022 KfW Succession Monitoring Report, there is an “increasing shortage of succession candidates.” The authors of the report cite …
Time for a New Way of Thinking – The Changing Nature of the Mittelstand
A team of experts from Stralsund university comes up with different ways for Mittelstand companies to continue underpinning the German economy
Innovation, quality, change – steadfast companions of the Mittelstand, the bedrock of SMEs in Germany. Mittelstand firms are currently …
“Mittelstand companies place particular emphasis on values”
An interview with Steinbeis Entrepreneur Professor Dr. Georg von Schnurbein
The term itself is enough to highlight the expectations faced by the new generation of SMEs in Germany – the New Mittelstand, where things new and global now intersect with …
The new Mittelstand
The very term highlights the POTENTIAL TO FOSTER CHANGE and a COLLISION OF TWO WORLDS: NEW MITTELSTAND – the successful transferral of the tried and tested into the FUTURE while also exploiting opportunities to bring about something new. In other …