1st Edition

Impact Business Design The Playbook for Developing Sustainable Business Models

By Stephan Grabmeier, Stephan Petzolt Copyright 2025
310 Pages
by Productivity Press

310 Pages
by Productivity Press

310 Pages
by Productivity Press

Impact Business Design will be the new standard for developing sustainable business models. The playbook contains a holistic organizational model that is suitable for all organizations (as the systems can be adapted). It enables a differentiation between the status quo and what the social and ecological ideal of the organization should be. This book offers the opportunity to explain and develop... Read more

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 Prologue

Structure

 

Transparency

Introduction

Step 1: Why

Step 2: How

Step 3: What

 

Transcendence

Introduction

Step 4: Today - Phase check

Step 5: Today - qualitative

Step 6: Today & Tomorrow - quantitative

Step 7: Tomorrow - qualitative

                Step 8: Gap

Step 9: Execution

                Excursus: Impact Economy

Immanence

Introduction

Step 10: Check

Step 11: Temper

Step 12: Learn

Step 13: Celebrate

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Explanation of terms

Epilogue

About the authors

 

Biography

Stephan Grabmeier is a visionary Future Designer, recognized as a leading thinker in New Work and sustainable economic practices for the future, within the realm of Sustainable Transformation. He is the founder of Synergie Zukunft GmbH, a company that collaborates with think tanks and futurists across Europe to drive the Green Transformation. Grabmeier excels at converting trends into strategies, guiding his clients through the dual transformation of digitalization and sustainability toward a regenerative economy. As a Business Angel, he champions Impact Start-Ups and contributes to the Social Business initiatives of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus. With teaching roles in Innopreneurship at the University of Duisburg-Essen and ESCP Business School in Berlin, he equips young minds with the Future Skills necessary for tomorrow's challenges. He’s a prolific author (3 books) co-author (20 books) and columnist in German-speaking media.

Stephan Petzolt's passion lies in guiding leaders within organizations to unlock their potential and that of their teams. His focus is on deeply engaging with the essence of business: responsible action. With over 20 years of leadership experience across various roles and organizations, particularly in IT, Stephan has spearheaded comprehensive and holistic change processes. For a decade, he served as a lecturer on ethics in business. In 2010, he founded the Institute for Practical CyberEthics, aiming to bridge scientific insights with everyday organizational practices. His goal is to achieve a dynamic equilibrium between dichotomies: SELF and US, efficiency and resilience, appreciation and value creation, transcendence and immanence. His clientele includes renowned companies of various sizes and organizational structures across different sectors. Despite their differences, there's a common thread: all organizations possess a distinct corporate identity that provides meaningfulness for stakeholders, especially employees.