Steinbeis Transfer Center TOP

• Implementation consulting for growth, financing and controlling
• Focus on SMEs
• Company valuations
• Company succession and post-merger integration
• Business mediation
• Complex projects with suitable experts from the entire Steinbeis network

• General Consulting:
  • Company competence check

• Growth:
  • Development and implementation support for tailored growth strategies
  • Market development: Specialized in accessing the MedTech market and other sectors
  • Change management: Support in the implementation and management of change processes using OKR (Objectives and Key Results)
  • Coaching and mediation: Targeted conflict resolution and leadership coaching
  • Post-merger integration
  • Business mediation

• Financing:
  • Developing target image and determining capital requirements
  • Discussing sources of capital and define financial strategy
  • Searching for equity and investors
  • Debt and alternative financing
  • Funding guide
  • Searching for house banks

• Succession and investment management: 
  • Mediation and advice on buying and selling SMEs
  • Succession planning and investment management
  • Business start-up advice with the aim of buying a company
  • Mediation of financial investors and equity capital
  • Post-merger integration

• Controlling & Processes: 
  • Analysis of cost and activity-based costing as well as controlling instruments
  • Analysis of controlling instruments

• Keywords:
  • Management consulting, corporate development, business model, business model development, innovation, innovation management, succession, company participation, rating, controlling, cost accounting, activity-based costing, company competence check, UKC, OKR, business mediation, business mediation, growth strategy, market access MedTech, change management, change processes, coaching, mediation, leadership coaching

• Development of business startup concepts in service and technology fields
• Expert reports on companies including recovery plans
• Selection of an ERP system for use in order processing, materials logistics, and production planning
• Introduction of project management to the product development process
• Workshops on productivity enhancements, cost reduction, and product diversification
• Coaching of business leaders on the implementation of efficiency enhancements
• Submission of equity bids and stakeholder searches
• Introduction of QM systems as part of a business concept
• Running of workshops and training courses in the field of leadership, marketing, communication, and management
• Restructuring of sales organizations, introduction of sales accounting systems and sales management
• Introduction of innovation management
• Development of a marketing and communication concept
• Revision of a marketing concept and optimization of online marketing

Steinbeis Transfer Magazine

• “In the end, what really matters is the company’s growth and development” (Transfer Online/2024)
  An interview with Hans-Jörg Bley and Mario Buric, Steinbeis Entrepreneurs at the Steinbeis Transfer Center TOP.
• Mittelstand: The Next Generation (Transfer 2/2023)
  A team of Steinbeis experts increasingly solves succession issues by pulling together teams from inside and outside companies
• Open strategy at Meat Counter (Transfer 2/2023)
  Staff is shaping the future of butcher Otto Müller from Constance
• “If you enjoy doing something it’s never a burden” (Transfer 3/2022)
  Successful succession in the making – an interview with Professor Edmund Haupenthal, Ursula Schulz, and Hans-Jörg Bley
• The Fine Balancing Act Between Visions and Actual Circumstances (Transfer 1/2022)
  An interview with Steinbeis consultant Rita Strassburg
• Not Much to Stick to (Transfer 3/2021)
  Project team develops a surface optimization method for use with pharmaceutical, food, and process technology
• From the end of the paper mess: The e-prescription as a game changer (Transfer 3/2020)
  Team of Steinbeis experts assesses the opportunities and threats of e-prescriptions
• Sustainability: an ace up your sleeve (Transfer 3/2019)
  Steinbeis experts help write the long-term success story of a medium-sized company in the construction industry
• Digital Transformation: Ready for the Digital Future?! (Transfer 4/2017)
  Did Germany miss the starting pistol?
• The Myth about Lateral Thinkers: A Know-It-All or Real-Knower?! (Transfer 3/2017)
  Lateral thinking as a prerequisite for innovation
• SMEs are Slipping Through the Net! (Transfer 2/2017)
  Networking without a network
• Digital mobility – future or true reality? (Transfer 1/2017)
  Or: How a raw diamond can be grinded
• Lean Management in Mechanical and Plant Engineering (Transfer 04/2013)
  Steinbeis supports lean processes at E.W. Gohl GmbH
• Wanted: Female Engineers! (Transfer 1/2013)
  The German Aerospace Academy (ASA) develops concepts for returning to full-time work
• We go to work where others go on vacation! (Transfer 4/2012)
  A discussion with Prof. Edmund Haupenthal
• Pulling through the crisis in HR (Transfer 1/2011)
  HR performance management and its three core constituents
• Careers, not fixed tracks (Transfer 4/2008)
  Banking careers for specialists, managers and project managers
• Barriers and open doors with “HR Business Partners” (Transfer 2/2008)
  An HR concept is translated into practice
• Fostering staff development and the role of IT (Transfer 1/2008)
  Opportunities and threats in modern HR work

Steinbeis-Edition

• Lau, Viktor (2015): "Die Mitarbeiterbeurteilung" Leistungen bewerten - Kompetenzen einschätzen - Potentiale identifizieren
• Lau, Viktor (2015): "Grundlagen der Eignungsdiagnostik" Professionelle Methoden der Personalauswahl
• Lau, Viktor (2013): "Schwarzbuch Personalentwicklung" Spinner in Nadelstreifen
• Lau, Viktor (2012): "Personalentwicklung" Grundlagen, Prozesse, Outsourcing
• Lau, Viktor; Haupenthal, Edmund (2011): "HR Performance Controlling" Die betriebswirtschaftliche Steuerung von Personal und Personalarbeit
• Lau, Viktor; Haupenthal, Edmund (2010): "HR Performance Management" Mitarbeiter beurteilen, vergüten und entwickeln