Podcast „Alles neu...? Aus dem Maschinenraum“

The construction industry is often seen as an industry where modernization and change are very slow. But that is gradually changing. More and more components are being prefabricated and inserted directly into the building instead of being created under adverse conditions on the construction site. For the long-established company Schöck from Baden-Baden, this is a logical development - the construction supplier has long specialized in individual components such as the Isokorb, which can be used to both support and insulate building elements such as the balcony. "We need to build more efficiently and more cheaply," says Schöck CEO Mike Bucher in the podcast "Alles neu...? Aus dem Maschinenraum." "The only way to do that is with more prefabrication and with more connectivity in construction." To drive development, the company is researching and tinkering, and there is an innovation department that strives to transport the inventive spirit of the company's founder, Eberhard Schöck, into the future. As CEO, Bucher is expected to make the necessary decisions from the outside and sees it as an advantage not to belong to the owning family. "Some things can be said more objectively, even those that are uncomfortable," he says. The Schöck boss talks about his past as a journalist, the difficulty of finding junior staff and his enthusiasm for the company's founder. In the podcast - with Tobias Rappers, Managing Director of Maschinenraum and Capital editor Nils Kreimeier.

How can the origin and future of Mittelstand companies be courageously united? What are the challenges facing family businesses and what experiences do they gather in digital transformation? These questions are answered by "Alles neu...? Aus dem Maschinenraum", the interview podcast for German Mittelstand*. Once a month, Tobias Rappers, Managing Director of Maschinenraum, and Nils Kreimeier, Senior Editor of the business magazine Capital, talk to thought leaders and makers from the heart of the German economy and focus on the personalities and their motivation.
*The podcast is in German.

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