In issue 27 of the Swiss business newspaper Handelszeitung, there is a report on an interesting phenomenon: the creation of a wall of silence around the activities of external consulting firms at many large company groups. Nevertheless, a recent study by the Association of Swiss Management Consultants (Asco) has revealed that despite the economic crisis, 90 percent of all large Swiss companies have been utilizing the support of consulting firms. That’s more than in 2008, when about 76 percent of the companies engaged external consultants.

It is also becoming clear that the deployment of consultants is becoming more selective and price pressure is increasing within the sector. In a comparison based on revenues from consulting fees in 2009, Handelszeitung named ESPRiT Switzerland as one of the biggest management consultancy firms in Switzerland.

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On July 2^nd, 2010 ESPRiT Consulting got together with the Irschenberg Children’s Village to co-host a large event centered round the screening of the soccer World Cup. This big screen event was special because the framework for the event was organized jointly by guests and residents of the Children’s Village in the spirit of the partnership slogan: "Creating common perspectives". Everyone really got actively involved. Kids, carers and ESPRiT staffers with their friends and family all joined "mixed teams" to supply refreshments, set out chairs and decorate the hall for the screening, provide musical accompaniment for the meal, and, last but not least, entertain the younger kids. Members of the press were also in attendance.

Here you can read what the press wrote about this very special day:

ESPRiT Consulting has become one of the first consulting firms to be accepted by SAP Germany for the Collaborative Business Initiative (BPM) in the segment Business Process Management (BPM). By accepting ESPRiT Consulting into the CBI, SAP has underlined its recognition of ESPRiT’s know-how in the field of process analysis and technical realization. 

The goal of this cross-sector initiative is to enhance collaboration between SAP and its partners, and to provide reconciled solution concepts for process automation within and between enterprises. That means that customers have the opportunity to stand out from their competitors as a result of transparency and efficiency they get in the processing of complex procedures.

You can read all the press reaction by going to the website of it-production.com, the online magazine for successful production.

In the issue 7/8.2010 of the university magazine aud!max, the focus is on "people in demand". After a previous decline in the number of job vacancies, the prospects for engineers in the consulting field are once again looking rosier.

As a graduate in industrial engineering, Tobias Kaiser, a Senior Consultant at ESPRiT, has written this article to describe the career opportunities for engineers in the consulting sector. He sees tremendous development chances for engineers because "the learning curve is just far steeper because of the varied project work they do."

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For the first time, the highly-regarded German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche has held a competition to find the "Best of Consulting" in Germany. The goal of the competition was to find the best consulting specialists in five categories. ESPRiT Consulting jumped straight to the number one spot in the category "Marketing and Sales".

The article in WirtschaftsWoche describes some of the problems that consultants encountered when working with their clients, the projects they implemented to solve these problems, and the results that they achieved.

You can read the complete article (in German) on the website of WirtschaftsWoche.

ESPRiT Consulting has posted good results for the last fiscal year 2009. As a result of its excellent collaboration with long-standing clients in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and North America, the consulting firm can now look back on the second most successful fiscal year in the company’s history. ESPRiT Switzerland was also able to increase its revenues.

Here you can find the complete press reaction from the online portals Swiss iT Reseller and inside-channels.

In this year’s poll of Germany’s Best Workplaces, five companies from Munich came out right at the top – and amongst them was ESPRiT Consulting. The employee survey carried out by the Great Place To Work Institute shows that employees identify more strongly than average with their company, and that the relationship between employees and their line managers is very highly rated.

Here you can read all about the reaction in the press.

In the February / March issue of the university magazine aud!max, Karsten Höppner, Founding Partner and CEO of ESPRiT Consulting, provides some human insights into the everyday lives of management consultants. In his interview, he describes how even experienced consultants can slip up occasionally, and that the best way to get out of such a situation is to demonstrate honesty and sensitivity.