Steinbeis Consulting Center Business and Common Good

The Steinbeis Consulting Center for Business and the Common Good supports your company in its structured alignment with the common good. With us by your side, you will develop strategies for an attractive positioning, identify suitable measures, and implement them step by step. You and your team will undergo an innovation and transformation process that makes your company future-proof and thus more resilient in economic, ecological, and social spheres.

As an introduction and to get acquainted, we offer a one-day workshop for your team, in which we together examine your business model, identify strengths and weaknesses, and uncover blind spots. This creates a co-creative, trusting environment for your entrepreneurial development. Subsequently, we collaborate either on-site or online, whether during start-up, restructuring, or succession phases. We are also ready to work within funding programs.

Here is a selection of possible services which will be tailored to your specific needs:

• Keynote speeches, vision workshops, stakeholder analyses, risk analyses
• Consulting, coaching, project management
• Organizational development, design thinking, agile methodologies, impact modeling, sociocracy, common good economy, new work
• Project/product development or ecosystem design using the ECOnGOOD Business Canvas
• Common Good balance sheet as an ESG report, optionally using the VSME standard

Benefit from our many years of experience in international management, proven systems thinking, skills in strategy and organizational development, and the creativity of agile working. Clients value us for our strategic vision and the necessary operational depth.

Your company's commitment to the common good isn't reflected in its documentation, but in the way you operate.

With us, you will work on topics such as:

• 360° analysis
• Strategic realignment / Vision & mission / Transformation projects
• Implementation and/or cultivation of a culture of the common good
• Projects, products, and services focused on the common good
• Sustainability reporting and management
• Resilient, future-proof business models
• Participation and team building

How much common good is wanted? The first step is usually the biggest. And the most important. As a consultant in the Economy fort he Common Good, I know numerous examples, yet they are all different. And your company will find its own path. Projects can take many different forms:

• Founding and/or realigning a company with a common good focus
• Common good-oriented project and/or product development
• Participatory design of a common good-oriented social business
• Creation of common good balance sheets
• Leadership and/or employee workshops on purpose, design, innovation, and impact

Steinbeis Transfer Magazine

• Thinking about the economy and the common good as a whole (Transfer online/2026)
  The new Steinbeis Consulting Center supports SMEs in combining economic success, environmental responsibility and the common good. Dr Hartmut Schäfer brings to the table many years of management and transformation experience, as well as methodologies such as the Economy for the Common Good, sociocracy and design thinking. The services on offer range from strategy and organisational development, through the ECOnGOOD Business Canvas, to the Common Good Balance Sheet in accordance with the VSME standard.