Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
The Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH is a global business and strategy consulting.
Company Profile
The company was founded in Munich by Roland Berger in 1967. The international strategy consultancy is an independent partnership owned by some 250 partners, has 2,700 employees and operates 51 offices in 36 countries. According to Roland Berger Strategy Consultants is the largest strategy consultancy with European roots and the fifth largest in the world. In Germany they occupied in terms of market share second only to McKinsey.
The company advises industrial and service companies as well as public institutions. The consulting services include issues of corporate governance, strategic planning concerning the introduction of new business models and processes, organizational structures for information and technology strategy.
Organizationally, the company is organized with his advisors in global " centers of excellence ". The industrial centers of expertise cover the major industries, functional competence centers examine overarching methodological issues.
Management
The management of the company is carried out by the Global Management (Management Board) and by the Supervisory Board. The Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board were elected on December 9, 2011. Took place on May 4, 2013, following disease-related resignation of CEO Martin C. Wittig new appointments to this position and the position of Chairman. The board of management consulting is made up as follows:
- Burkhard Schwenker, Chief Executive Officer
- Charles -Edouard Bouée, Member of the Executive Committee
- Bernd Brunke, Member of the Executive Committee
- Tijo J. G. Collot d' Escury, Member of the Executive Committee
- Ralf Kalmbach, Member of the Executive Committee
The Supervisory Board consists of four members:
- Vincent Mercier, Chairman of the Supervisory Board
- Wu Qi, member of the Supervisory Board
- António Bernardo, a member of the Supervisory Board
- Stefan Schaible, Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board
History
1967 Roland Berger made his own business as a consultant. In 1969, the first foreign office of the company was opened in Milan. 1976 followed by the establishment of an office in São Paulo, in 1991 an office in Tokyo was founded and opened in 1995, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, the first office in China. Since 1998, the company is also represented with first two, now five offices in the United States. 2003 chose the partners of the company the mathematician and economist Burkhard Schwenker as successor to Roland Berger. Berger himself was 2003 chairman of the board of the company. On the post of Chairman of the Board changed in July 2010 Martin C. Wittig, With the establishment of an office in Bahrain in 2006, the company is also active with an office in the Gulf region. 2007, the U.S. presence has been expanded with the opening of an office in Chicago. In addition, in 2008 new offices in Istanbul, Casablanca and Taipei were opened. Between 2009 and 2012, another 13 new offices were opened worldwide. In June 2010, Roland Berger announced the post of Chairman of the Board in 2010 and thus before the end of his term (2013 ) to make.
In Germany, the company located in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart is represented.
In November 2010 it was announced that the U.S. auditing company Deloitte Roland Berger Strategy Consultants wanted to take over, but the partners of Roland Berger rejected the offer. The resulting originally planned international expansion financed the company is now investing from its own ranks. In November 2012, the company announced that 17 new partners were appointed.
Concept of a European ratings agency
In the first half of 2011, European commissioners and politicians called for the establishment of a European rating agency, which should dissolve the opinion oligopoly of U.S. rating agencies Moody 's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings. Among other things, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble advocated the creation of a European rating agency.
The company was commissioned to conduct the model of a European rating agency and put it in front in July 2011, the EU Commission, the bank regulators and the governments of the EU countries. The biggest distinguishing feature of the proposed European rating agency to the U.S. counterparts was the organizational form. Accordingly, it should be in the European version to a state- independent foundation.
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants predicted 300 million euros for the construction of the Agency, which should be done by a 25 -member consortium of investors. The start of the rating agency was initially planned for mid-2012 with the development of country ratings. In the following years additional banking and corporate ratings should be developed.
Unlike Moody 's, Standard & Poor 's and Fitch, the European agency should not be geared towards making profit. It was intended to provide all the data that are relevant for a rating on the Internet, thus making the previously partly opaque rating processes transparent. An economic advisory board to oversee the work of the new rating agency.
In January 2012, the company Roland Berger announced that the European credit rating agency will be able to create the first own ratings from early 2013. The credit rating agency should be established as non-profit, private foundation based in the Netherlands until the end of the first quarter of 2012.
After the spring threatened to collapse the foundation of the European Credit Rating Agency, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants announced in April that the creation of the agency was imminent and enough investors are found. Founding head of European credit rating agency shall Markus Krall, who will resign from his position as senior partner at Roland Berger. On April 29, 2013 it was announced that the plan had failed.
Initiatives and Projects
The company is committed to both national and international levels in a number of initiatives and pro bono projects. Since 2013, the consulting activities focused primarily on the promotion of education in cooperation with the Foundation in 2008 by company founder Roland Berger Roland Berger privately funded. So every year is the Europe-wide competition Best of European Business Award for the place particularly competitive and innovative European companies. As part of the Counterparts initiative promotes Roland Berger Strategy Consultants educational and cultural projects in Central and Eastern Europe. At global level, the consulting firm is cooperating with the other Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. In February and March 2011, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants conducted together with initiators and partners such as IMAGE, the Bertelsmann Foundation, GMX, infra test and the gunslingers GmbH, the largest to date online survey on the topic of education, future through education - Germany wants 's know by yourselves. Around 500,000 participants took part in the survey, the results of which were handed over to Education Minister Annette Schavan. In July 2011, the company presented the project in 2012. The aim is the direct and the indirect consequences of the 24 world's political elections, including in the U.S., China, Russia and France, to observe and analyze. Roland Berger Strategy Consultants supports the initiative potential of Germany. In collaboration with companies such as DEKRA and Lanxess a career platform for budding engineers, scientists and computer scientists was created.
In issue 25/2013 Der Spiegel reported, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants have in 2005 the charity Asma al - Assad, wife of Bashar al -Assad advised and managed. Organizations such as Firdos and Trust dealt among other things with projects for the Syrian rural population. Accordingly allegedly were applications from citizens who wanted to start their own non-governmental organizations, will be rejected with the argument that there are already appropriate non-governmental organizations. Among the other activities in the region recorded ' The mirror also the presentation of the Roland Berger Foundation of " Human Dignity " in 2011 for the Syrian journalist Mazen Darwish and civil rights activist who has been incarcerated since February 2012.
Famous Alumni
- Wolfgang Deml - Former CEO BayWa
- Jörg Dräger - Former Senator of Science of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Member of the Executive Board of the Bertelsmann Foundation
- Acorn Thomas Mann - Former CFO of German Börse AG since February 2010 Chief Executive of the Aton GmbH
- Holger Hätty - Chief Information Officer, network management and purchase of Lufthansa Passenger Airlines
- Marco Freiherr von Maltzan - Former Chairman of the Board of BERU AG
- Jost Massenbergstraße - Member of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp Steel AG
- Beate Rapp - Former member of the Board of Escada AG
- Manfred Reichl - Member of the Supervisory Board of Austrian Airlines Group
- Stefan Bötzel - former board member of BayWa
- Julian Putlitzstrasse - Chief Financial Officer of Sixt AG