About us
We add something on top.
Who is umlaut?
umlaut is a global, full-service, cross-industry, end-to-end company that offers advisory and engineering services to clients all over the world.
Our interdisciplinary capabilities enable us to add value, quality and focus to their organisations and produce.
We are an able and agile group of consultancies and engineering firms. 4,200 specialised experts and engineers provide innovative solutions across all industries and their various intersections as well as serving the public sector and developing organisational cultures, structures and processes.
Mission statement
As umlaut, we change industrial and organisational advisory and engineering services from regular to special.
Our special mark is to help our clients all over the world to change the quality of their technological capabilities and organisational culture for the better.
We add value on top of their services, products and entire organisational fabric, all the way throughout our partnership.
Facts and figures
You know our name. Here are our numbers.
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decades of successful deliveries and completions
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million € annual turnover
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locations all over the world
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subsidiaries
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experts, engineers and enthusiasts from
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nations burning to add something towards your business success
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privately owned and independent
Key differentiators
Deep knowledge, vast experience and a tangible passion for our fields of expertise provide a platform for four extras:
- bottom-up, completion-oriented thinking coming from the result which enables
- advice that is doable as a starting point for real-end-to-end value delivery,
- solutions that are customised, rather than standardised,
- and brave, creative solutions when playing by the book won’t produce the desired success.
Values
Able. Agile. And humane. It’s all rooted in our philosophy.
Courage
It took courage to start-up our first business more than two decades ago. In recognising and seizing new business opportunities, thinking outside of the box and doing things differently, we continue to be brave.
What is more uncommon is our courage to share responsibility and ownership of our enterprises.
Inventiveness
A deep love of everything technical unites us. And a passion for making, doing and creating things. We like to try things out and just see what happens. That’s usually how innovations come about.
Our free-spirited, interdisciplinary approaches help us think things through originally and produce surprising and beneficial results.
Performance
For us, performance is a mix of customer focus, competence, experience, professionalism and walking the extra mile. We define our worth for clients through the value we add to their companies and products.
So, we are all-hands-on-board and relentless in our pursuit of success.
Collaboration
We can go fast alone in specialised units. We’re even stronger together as a group. Collaboration is deeply engrained in our DNA. In our view, interdisciplinary cooperation increases the chances of innovation and extraordinary solutions.
We enjoy working closely with our clients - and regard ourselves as partners rather than suppliers.
Empathy
As a people-centred enterprise, we attach great importance to human values. Empathy is one of them.
If we want to be like a partner to clients, we need to be capable of understanding and appreciating each other’s situations and feelings.
Authenticity
We are down-to-earth and unpretentious people lucky enough to be doing what we love most.
There is no reason at all to be anything else other than our true selves.
What’s the (hi)story?
umlaut is a new brand. But we are not a new company.
We used to be part of P3. On a more than two-decade-long journey we grew from a handful of people into our thousands, spanned our wings from Germany across all territories and industries and enjoyed great success and growth together.
But to realise our full potential, we needed a change.
With umlaut, we have changed the quality of our own professional home. And found a special mark worthy of our mutual entrepreneurial and cultural vision for the future of a company of the many.
And a company of more: more togetherness, more collaboration, more inventiveness, more entrepreneurialism, more freedom, more shared ownership and more success.
Board of directors
We are 4,200 people all over the world. This is our board of directors.
Left to right:
Sebastian Keller (Chief Operating Officer)
Marc Peter Althoff (Chief Technology & Security Officer)
Dr. Lars Karsten (Chief Communication & People's Officer)
Dr. Tim Moog (Chief Financial & Restructuring Officer)
Dr. Samit Ghosh (Chief Executive Officer Americas)
Supervisory board
Prof. Dr. Thomas Prefi (Chairman of the supervisory board)
Dr. Timo Alte
Thomas Andrae
Prof. Dr. Katja Nettesheim
Dr. Michael Tobias
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