Research & Transfer

Understand the future. Recognize opportunities. Shape innovation.

SIBE helps companies identify relevant developments early on, develop future scenarios, and derive concrete courses of action for strategy and innovation.

What we do for businesses

Research that provides direction.

We do not research across companies, but rather work together with them on relevant questions of the future. In doing so, we combine sound analyses with concrete business issues – from identifying new trends and potential future scenarios to developing innovations.

Recognize the future

What is changing our industry?

We identify trends, technologies, and developments that could become relevant to your company.

Thinking ahead to the future

What could happen tomorrow?

We develop various future scenarios and make opportunities, risks, and potential disruptions visible.

Shape the future

What does this mean for our company?

Together, we translate insights into strategic courses of action and new perspectives for your company.

develop innovation

How does an opportunity become a new solution?

We help identify fields of innovation and develop new products, services, business models, or structures.

TWO WAYS TO SHAPE THE FUTURE

Research and transfer for practical decision-making

Strategic Foresight

Recognize today what will be relevant tomorrow.

The future cannot be predicted – but it can be thought ahead systematically. Using strategic foresight, we identify relevant trends and developments, develop possible future scenarios, and show what opportunities and risks arise from them for your company.

Methods: Scenario analyses · Trend radars · Delphi studies · Future studies

Innovation & Transfer

Insights become the future.

We translate future knowledge into concrete options for action. Together with you, we identify innovation fields and develop new perspectives for business models, products, services, markets, and organizations.

Results: Innovation fields · Business models · Strategic options · Concrete recommendations for action

IMPACT PROJECTS

Research that has already made an impact

Addressing future challenges together with strong partners.

Future of Intelligence

Together with KPMG, SIBE examined technological developments and their impacts on infrastructure, governance, and sovereignty up to the year 2036.

Future of global mobility

Together with KPMG, SIBE investigated the future of international talent mobility and developed strategic options for geopolitical, technological, and labor market-related changes.

Future of welfare work

Together with the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Baden-Württemberg, SIBE investigated key future issues in welfare work and developed solution approaches for upcoming challenges.

„Global study „Future of Welfare“ – the social economy also needs future impulses! Through an exceptionally competent and pleasant collaboration with SIBE, we were able to analyze microtrends worldwide and gather expert opinions. Based on this global outward orientation, we can now continue to shape the future effectively with our more than 900 member organizations.“

Uta-Micaela Dürig
Head of Social Policy

„In 2020, SIBE conducted a future study for the generics and biosimilars industry on our behalf, from which we took away many important insights: How are other players shaping their future? What relevant developments do we foresee for our own industry? It was a great collaboration, both a glimpse into the future and a look outside the box that showed us what is possible – theoretically.“

Bork Bretthauer, CEO
Pro Generika e. V.

„SIBE and TGW – that was and is an exciting journey into the future. Systematic, open-minded, and in an inspiring atmosphere between science and industry.“

Jörg Scheithauer, CFO
TGW Logistics Group GmbH

Publications & Insights

From the research question to the recommendation for action

This is what a research project with SIBE can look like.

Your question

Together, we define the future or innovation question that is relevant to your company.

The research design

We develop an individual methodological approach – tailored to your specific question and goal.

Analysis & Perspectives

We analyze developments, integrate relevant expertise, and develop potential visions of the future.

Consequences & Opportunities

Together, we evaluate what these findings mean for your company, your industry, or your business model.

Transfer

The results generate concrete options for action and impulses for strategy and innovation.

Your question about the future is our starting point.

You want to know which developments will change your industry? You want to identify new fields of innovation? Or review your strategy against different future scenarios?