Fast by design
Every course takes two to three hours. We leave out the theory you will never use and teach only what you need, so you can finish in a single afternoon.
Our story
Born in Berlin, built for everywhere.
A simple idea, and nine years spent building on it.
IBMI was founded in Berlin, Germany in 2017.
IBMI began in Berlin in 2017 with a simple idea: that good business education should be within reach of anyone who wants it, and that learning a useful skill should take hours rather than years.
Back then, studying online usually meant committing to something long, expensive and easy to abandon halfway. We wanted the opposite — short courses you could genuinely finish, on subjects you could genuinely use, with nothing in them that did not need to be there.
So we built courses around the practical, everyday business skills people are actually asked for at work — the methods, tools and examples you can apply from day one. Nine years later, that is still how every course is written.
Image © Impact Hub Berlin, Germany.
Everything we have built since follows from that idea. We keep courses short and focused on the essentials, so the hours you give us are hours well spent.
We write our chapters and add an audio version for the days your hands are busy. The final quiz can be retaken as often as you like, free of charge. Nothing expires, and nothing is designed to trip you up.
The result is learning that fits around a job, a family, and everything else a life already holds. So far it has worked for a quarter of a million people in more than a hundred countries.
Today we work from the Impact Hub in Berlin-Neukölln, alongside people building companies around social and environmental impact. A good fit for an institute whose whole purpose is widening access.
Nine years on, the catalog runs to thirty courses and eight programs, and the idea behind it has not changed.
Anyone, anywhere should be able to learn something worth knowing — and hold a certificate afterwards that proves it.