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We are competent, reliable business partners and change agents for method-based evaluation and the designing of personnel concepts and personnel instruments in companies and administrations.

We profitably include our customers' potentials in the advancements and improve the competitiveness in the market. We passionately care for the problems of our customers and with all of our projects we strive to achieve the highest and most sustained customer benefit possible. Practical relevance and the implementation of recent scientific knowledge and solutions are of great concern to us. In case our core competency is inadequate we collaborate with other advisory experts at home and abroad.

ISPA consult is a member of BDU (Bundesverband Deutscher Unternehmensberater - International Council of Management Consulting Institutes).

Sector

ISPA consult is a consultancy for personnel management.

(HR consulting according to BDU standard)

Foundation/Core competency

ISPA consult was founded in 1989 as a spin-off of the Chair of Business Studies and Personnel Management at the University of Stuttgart and specialises in HR system consulting.

Fields of HR consulting

Five defined business segments for personnel management:

• HR strategy consulting/Strategic personnel management
  
• Working time flexibilisation with/without time accounts
  
• Employee surveys with follow-up services
  
• Change management/Reorganisation
  
• Performance, assessment, renumeration, development
• Special projects

Aims of HR consulting

• support HR employees and executives in companies and administrations as and when required in performing their tasks better, faster and as cost-efficiently as possible (customer benefit)
• positively affect the personnel department's contribution to value creation
• advance and strengthen the role of the HR employees as reliable and highly competent business partners (HR business partner)

These aims can be achieved through value-based consulting according to the following concept:

• consider and implement customer-oriented consulting as a permanent engagement
  
• guarantee optimised problem solving for customers, following strictly the obligations defined in the Service Level Agreements
  
• appoint competent contact persons to the customer during all phases of the consulting process
  
• encourage and demand innovations in the personnel department according to the current state of research and Best Practice
  
• spark enthusiasm in new ideas and intended procedures of change within the customer's project team and beyond
  
• permit the customer to make rational decisions among alternative solutions
  
• effectively and efficiently design an interactive collaboration between the ISPA consulting team and the customer's project team as the critical factor for success

Clientele

Our clientele includes medium-sized industrial and service enterprises of all sectors as well as administrations on a local, federal state and federal level.

ISPA organisation

Family business:
Prof. Dr. Karl-Friedrich Ackermann and Mrs Gisela Ackermann as acting partners

Core team:
Professionally experienced business school graduates with HR system consulting as their area of expertise

Support team:
External specialists as required (e.g. IT, labour law, labour market)

Form of organisation:
Process organisation according to primary and supporting value activities

ISPA location

Internet;
www.ispa-consult.de
www.ispa-mitarbeiterbefragung.de

Overseas consulting:

ISPA consult PTE, Singapore

ISPA law PTE, Singapore*

*Note:
Since November 1, 2009, ISPA law PTE Singapore is merged with the international law firm GSK Stockmann + Kollegen and will continue the support of German companies in Singapore and the Southeast Asian region under the direction of Dr. Rüdiger Ackermann.