The best small and boutique management consulting firms in Germany
A new ranking by an analyst firm in Germany has identified the country’s best mid-sized, small and boutique management consulting firms.
With a value of around €30 billion, according to the BDU, the association for the German consulting industry, Germany houses Europe’s largest management consultancy market, ahead of the UK and France. While the largest share of the industry is in the hands of the big players – including the leading strategy consultancies McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company; the Big Four; Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC; and other large consultancies such as Accenture, BearingPoint and Capgemini Consulting, among others, the bulk of the number of firms in the market are boutique and small and mid-sized (SME) management consulting firms.
Of the thousands of SMEs and boutiques in the marketplace, a new survey has identified those firms that according to their clients stand out from the crowd. Conducted by German institute Top Consultants, the analysis looked at how hundreds of management consultancies perform on criteria such as professionalism, competence and customer satisfaction, leading to a list of Germany’s best boutique and SME management advisory firms across two categories: organisational consultancy and management consultancy.
Organisation consulting:
- Brückel company development, Münster
- CHANGE 4 SUCCESS, Hamburg
- Corporate Happiness, München
- Kraus & Partner, Bruchsal
- initio Organisationsberatung, Berlin
- KGH Customs Services, Hamburg
- KODE, München
- LEAN & MORE, Rheine
- Manufaktur für Wachstum, Bochum
- Parameta Project Management, Erding
- PROZESSREICH, Kirchardt
- PTA practice for team oriented work organization, Cologne
- QMC Consulting, Dusseldorf
Management consulting:
- Abels & Kemmner Gesellschaft für Unternehmensberatung, Herzogenrath
- accantus, Switzerland
- accoda, Dusseldorf
- ACG Engineers, Aachen
- ACUROC, Idstein
- ams.Solution, Kaarst
- ARCA-Consult, Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm
- Atreus, Munich
- Audimus-Saar Consulting, Sulzbach
- Aurum Interim Management, Dusseldorf
- bkp Consulting, Kronberg in the Taunus
- Baumeistervalue - manufactory for management, Schongau
- Consulting Wink, Neunkirchen-Seelscheid
- bluecue consulting, Bielefeld
- BUCS IT, Wuppertal
- candidus, Munich
- CONET, Hennef
- Cordes Rieger Consulting, Kiel
- COSMO CONSULT, Berlin
- CTO Balzuweit, Stuttgart
- CYLAD Consulting, Hamburg
- D-Level, Hamburg
- d3 consulting training coaching, Stuttgart
- dchp | consulting, Dusseldorf
- derks brand management consultants, Munich
- German consulting company for time value accounts and working life models, Lorch
- division one, Stuttgart
- Dr. Bolz Immobilien, Stuttgart
- Dr. Kraus & Partners, Bruchsal
- Dr. Weick Executive Search, Titisee-Neustadt
- EbelHofer Strategy & Management Consultants, Cologne
- eccelerate, Munich
- Econum Consulting, Ludwigsburg
- Expense Reduction Analysts, Wiesbaden
- FACILITY CONSULTANTS, Herrenberg
- FMT International Executive Search, Berlin
- FOSTEC & Company, Stuttgart
- FTC, Hochheim
- GB International GmbH Executive Consultants, Wuppertal
- Gerlach, Porst + Steiner, Bad Homburg
- gök Consulting, Berlin
- GPI Service Center, Nagold
- Hanse CRM, Hamburg
- HANSELMANN & COMPAGNIE, Stuttgart
- Hapeko Hanseatisches Personalkontor, Hamburg
- Haufe Academy, Freiburg im Breisgau
- High Performance Solutions, Bad Arolsen
- High Tech Corporate Services, Munich
- Hotel Affairs Consulting, Dusseldorf
- HPP | Strategy and Marketing Consulting, Frankfurt am Main
- HRM CONSULTING, Berlin
- pulse!, Pouring
- Engineering Office QM International Georg Moti, Ingolstadt
- Impuls!, Giessen
- IWL, Ulm
- K & H Business Partner, Hamburg
- Karer Consulting, vineyard
- Kellermann & Riehm Consulting, Hamburg
- Kerkhoff Consulting, Dusseldorf
- Kerkhoff Cost Engineering, Dusseldorf
- Kerkhoff Indirect Procurement, Dusseldorf
- Competence Center for Factory and Site Planning, Burghausen
- KOPFSPRINGER, Dusseldorf
- KORN CONSULT, Jossgrund
- Krause & Schopp Integration Management, Koblenz
- LEAN & MORE, Rheine
- Lean at work, Münster
- LEAN PARTNERS Project Gesellschaft, Seelze
- LEWAN ASSOCIATES Unternehmensberatung, Dusseldorf
- LF Consult, Stuttgart
- LOCOM Consulting, Karlsruhe
- LucaNet, Berlin
- M & L Aktiengesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main
- m3 management consulting, Ismaning
- MBB Consulting, Munich
- MODUL-CONSULT Corporate Development, Pforzheim
- msab - Management System Training and Consulting, Warendorf
- Next Digital Group, Meerbusch
- NIXDORF CONSULTING, Olfen
- Parameta Project Management, Erding
- PETER SCHREIBER & PARTNER, Ilsfeld-Auenstein
- Promerit, Frankfurt am Main
- PROTEMA Unternehmensberatung, Stuttgart
- PROCESSIVE, Kirchardt
- PTA practice for team oriented work organization, Cologne
- QMatrix, Bellheim
- QMC Consulting, Dusseldorf
- Rödl Consulting, Nuremberg
- Roland Schwarzer Unternehmensverkauf Deutschland, Dusseldorf
- Schubert Packaging Systems, Crailsheim
- Schuppar Consulting, Dusseldorf
- Sellke.Personalized Executive Assistant Search Barbara Sellke MA, heathrod
- Späth buoy, Ettlingen
- Startup Factory China, Munich
- Structure Management Partner, Cologne
- Sybit, Radolfzell
- Tauster, Reutlingen
- Trevisto, Nuremberg
- Tröger IT Business Consulting, Fürth
- Truffle Bay Management Consulting, Munich
- Business Consulting Nico Reichelmann Businessplan.org, Augsburg
- UWS Business Solutions, Paderborn
- Viehoff Consult, Stolberg
- XEPTUM Consulting, Neckarsulm
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