The survey is a joint initiative of the daily newspaper “Die WELT” and the company “Service Value GmbH,” which specializes in ratings in the consulting industry. 3,973 corporate customers from various economic sectors were surveyed.
According to the study, there are over 100,000 individual consultants and consulting firms in Germany. initio was able to maintain its position at the top of several categories in this environment – including in the evaluation dimensions“price-performance ratio” and“implementation orientation“.
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1st Place in “Implementation Orientation” “Overall Satisfaction”“Price/Performance Ratio”
In the dimensions “Implementation Orientation” and “Price-Performance Ratio”, we even achieved first place and are even “Germany’s Best Consultants” here:

3rd place in “Overall satisfaction”
Also important for us: overall satisfaction.
Here we achieved a respectable third place, ahead of US companies Kearney, Deloitte, or even the German Porsche Consulting.
Study Design
Customer assessments from the perspective of decision-makers, purchasers and project staff were surveyed.
Participants: almost 4000 corporate customers from various business sectors
The assessment is based on a satisfaction scale (1 = “excellent” to 5 = “poor”) and an agreement scale (1 = “fully agree” to 4 = “strongly disagree”).
The seal “Best Consultant” is only awarded to the first-place winner.
The details of the study design and further results can be found here.
More awards won
We are delighted about these excellent ratings – all the more so as we have already achieved top rankings in recent years and this year were once again awarded as “Top Consultant 2025”.
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