Awards

Over the past few years, ESPRiT Consulting has received a string of awards that reflect their outstanding qualitative performance.

A variety of regional, national, and international awards have been presented in recognition of our consultancy competencies and the way in which we have implemented new ideas.

It was not only general criteria, such as performance and growth, that were evaluated. Above all, the critical factors for the various awards were HR Management, service orientation, and climate of innovation.

Germany´s best place to work 2008
ESPRiT Consulting is ranked 34th among the best 100 best exmployers in Germany. The IT and Management Consultancy took part for the first time in the competition "Germany´s Best place to Work" and was especially successful in the categories trust in management board, corporate culture and teamspirit. This award confirms the outstanding Human Resource management at ESPRiT. Frank Hauser, the head of the Great Place to Work^® Institute Germany: "The audit has shown that ESPRiT Consulting is a special employer that ist employees identify with very strongly."

The competition has taken place for the 6th time in Germany. 2008 a total of 252 companies participated and the best 100 were invited to the award ceremony in the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Berlin, Germany. The German Secretary of Labour Olaf Scholz awarded the much sought-after distinction. The basis for the evaluation of the participants was an anonymous questionaire that dealt with the areas of credibility, respect, pride, fairness and teamspirit. Additionally an audit of the Human Resources department asked the companies to depict their measures, programmes and concepts in terms of HR Management.

Young Career ("Junge Karriere")
In November 2004 Didem Steinbauer-Zeytin, Associate Partner at ESPRiT Consulting, was selected as the winner of the “Career of the Year at an SME 2004” award by the business magazine “Junge Karriere”. The job magazine of the business newspaper “Handelsblatt” chose from managers under 40 for the media prize and two additional special awards. German Companies large and small from different lines of business had nominated their most talented staff from a combined workforce of over one million. The important selection criteria for these awards were specialist qualifications, professional development, contribution to corporate success, and, above all, management qualities and the ability to put one’s own ideas into practice.
In the 2007 competition another ESPRiT candidate made it to the last round: Associate Partner Isolde Esterbauer is among Germany´s top 25 young managers. The other awardees came from companies such as Commerzbank, Sixt, Shell, SAP, Booz Allen Hamilton, Citibank, Adidas and Accenture. The Associate Partner convinced the jury with her diverse and international CV which is dominated by the initiation of new things. "Career means continious development of technical as well as personal skills, the realization of one´s ideas as well as taking over responsibility. ESPRiT trusts me and gives me the necessary space for my individual development." explains Isolde Esterbauer the reasons for her success.

Lünendonk
2007 ESPRiT Consulting was mentioned again in the Lünendonk survey for IT Consultancies and System Integrators in Germany. The current Lünendonk survey gives an independent overview of the German consulting market and thus confirms the growth trend of the internationally active consultancy. ESPRiT was able to record total revenue growth of 41.2 percent from 2006 to 2007. The average rate of revenue growth of all participants in the study was 19.2 percent. Big names such as IBM and Accenture are on top of the Lünendonk ranking of the top selling 25 consultancies in Germany. However, independent, owner-led consultancies such as ESPRiT Consulting are finding more and more recognition in the industry.

Bavaria's Best 50
ESPRiT Consulting is once again nominated for Bayerns Best 50. After 2004 and 2006 ESPRiT was presented for the third time with an award for being one of the 50 fastest growing companies in Bavaria. In keeping with the ceremony’s slogan, “Bavaria – the home of growth”, Bavaria’s Minister for Economic Affairs, Emilia Müller gave the prestigious award to ESPRiT Consulting. To win the award, the companies had to demonstrate two features: An outstanding increase in revenue and the creation of jobs.

ESPRiT Consulting has grown consistently at an annual rate of 20 to 25 percent over the last four years, and the company is striving to maintain this pattern of growth. The ambitious goal is to increase the staff size to 500 by the end of 2012. At the end of 2007, the IT and Management Consulting Firm posted results showing that it had once again recorded the most successful year in the history of the company. With a staff size of 220, ESPRiT achieved total revenues of 35.5 million euro. For the current fiscal year, the consulting firm is forecasting total revenue of 42 million euro and is planning to increase the staff size to 260. Having already posted revenues of more than 10 million euro for the first quarter of 2008, these targets seem to be realistic.

Siemens
For the fiscal year 2008 / 2009, Siemens has once again designated ESPRiT Consulting as a preferred supplier for IT Consulting. In the selection process, ESPRiT was particularly convincing in the qualitative evaluation, achieving an above-average ranking.

Staufenbiel
"Karriere Inside: Consulting", the new careers guide for young people with high potential issued by the Staufenbiel Institute, has named ESPRiT Consulting as one of the 100 most important companies for applicants. Nearly 400 pages of information give students, honors graduates, young professionals, and career changers an exclusive glimpse behind the scenes of the consulting business, going way beyond any well-known factual descriptions.

BestPersAward
In December 2004 ESPRiT received two awards for successful human resources management at the BestPersAwards event in Frankfurt. The first prize was won for IT Deployment in Human Resources Management (category “Computerization”), and the third prize came in the category “Staff Recruitment” for successful and progressive recruiting policies. The BestPersAward study was founded by Prisma Prof. Scholz GmbH in collaboration with the Faculty for Organization, HR Management and Information Management at the University of Saarland. It highlights quality in HR management at small and medium-sized companies in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

TOP100
ESPRiT Consulting is one of the leading innovators amongst German SMEs. For the tenth time, the highly-regarded “Top 100” initiative (patron - Lothar Späth) has honored outstanding innovative performance at SMEs. One feature of all the chosen enterprises is professional innovation management. Each participating company is judged in the categories “Climate of Innovation”, “Innovation Marketing”, “Innovative Processes and Organization”, and “Promotion of Innovation by Senior Management”. In the category “Climate of Innovation”, ESPRiT features in the TOP 10.

Forrester
In the course of a recent Forrester study, the research team, led by Andrew Parker, once again made good use of ESPRiT’s specialist competencies. The study was concerned with the effects of outsourcing on the market and on companies. During their research activities, Mr. Parker’s team consulted ESPRiT, as well as a host of other well-known companies: Bearing Point, CapGemini Ernst & Young, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Softlab, and Unisys to name but a few. Over a number of years, Forrester Research and ESPRiT Consulting have built up a close working relationship based on mutual trust. In the fall of 2001, Forrester selected ESPRiT as one of the 14 leading European back office integrators (study “Integration spend gets real”).