agilimo Consulting GmbH has once again impressed with its innovative qualities and therefore received the TOP 100 Seal 2023.
The award is only given to particularly innovative medium-sized companies.
On June 23, science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar will personally congratulate agilimo on this success at the award ceremony in Augsburg.
The competition is based on a scientific selection process.
On behalf of compamedia, the organizer of the comparison, the innovation researcher Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and his team examined agilimo Consulting GmbH on the basis of more than 100 criteria from five categories: Innovation-promoting top management, innovation climate, innovative processes and organization, external orientation/open innovation and innovation success.
Of particular importance is whether a company’s innovations are merely a product of chance or whether they are systematically planned and can therefore be repeated in the future.
After its success in 2022, agilimo is now one of the top innovators in Germany for the second time and has made a name for itself in the field of IT security and the modern workplace.
Innovative IT solutions are part of the agilimo philosophy
Founder and Managing Director of agilimo Consulting GmbH Marcus Heinrich is one of the leading experts in Germany when it comes to mobile IT solutions for companies and highly secure working with company data.
For him, innovation is part of the DNA of successful entrepreneurs and their companies from the very beginning.
He compares the process of innovation to the personal growth of people:
"Innovation works like a bridge during a change that leads to new possibilities. For us humans, we would use the terms further development and personal growth. Essentially, this is similar to the innovation process in IT. In the end, it's also about a new solution that users can grow with."
Together with his team, he implements forward-looking, highly secure and mobile IT solutions for his customers – solutions that are geared towards the requirements of the people who use them.
Innovation makes the difference between standard and high performance
A look at the latest evolution in agilimo’s range of services shows what this looks like in daily practice.
As all solutions for Modern Workplaces are naturally closely linked to security issues, IT security has always been an integral part of agilimo’s service.
The further development of the company therefore takes particular account of the constantly increasing demand for IT security.
Driven by digitalization on the one hand and the rapidly increasing threat of cybercrime on the other, it was the logical next step for agilimo to adapt all facets of its own range of services to these growing challenges in a future-proof manner.
The special feature of agilimo’s approach is that it does not rely purely on treating symptoms with supposedly secure protection software.
Instead, security processes are viewed from the perspective of potential attackers and holistic protection concepts are derived from this.
After all, effective protection is only possible if companies are aware of the attackers’ ways of thinking and patterns of action and arm themselves appropriately against them.
In addition to the effective, preventive protection of the infrastructure, this approach also increases the chances of systematically maintaining the ability to act operationally in the event of a specific attack through suitable emergency measures.
For the necessary system monitoring, agilimo has set up its own Security Operation Center (SOC) with state-of-the-art monitoring capabilities.
Here, the globally known threat situations are compared in real time with the risk situation at customers so that measures can be initiated immediately if necessary.
"The SOC provides companies with scalable monitoring and surveillance technology for their own IT infrastructure 24-7, which can be used as an effective line of defense against cyber attacks."
Equal opportunities for all participants
To ensure that all applicants have an equal chance, the seal is awarded in three size categories: up to 50, 51 to 200 and more than 200 employees.
In the anniversary year of TOP 100 – the current round is already the 30th edition of the innovation competition – interest was particularly high: 550 SMEs applied, 300 of them were successful and now bear the TOP 100 seal.
A maximum of 100 companies per size category can be honored.
“TOP 100 is about the question of how important the innovation goal is in the company,” says Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke, Scientific Director of the competition.
“Do routines and habits dominate or is the company able to question the status quo, think creatively and in new ways and successfully assert itself on the market? We analyze this ability on the basis of more than 100 test criteria,” he explains.
On June 23, all top innovators of the 2023 class will come together in Augsburg for the award ceremony at the German SME Summit.
Ranga Yogeshwar will be there to personally congratulate them on their TOP 100 success.
(further information on the test criteria at www.top100.de/pruefkriterien)
TOP 100: the competition
Since 1993, compamedia has been awarding the TOP 100 seal for special innovative strength and above-average innovation success to medium-sized companies.
The scientific management has been in the hands of Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke since 2002.
Franke is the founder and director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
With 25 research awards and over 200 publications, he is one of the leading innovation researchers internationally.
The mentor of TOP 100 is the science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar.
Project partners are the Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research and the BVMW association of small and medium-sized enterprises.
The magazines manager magazin and impulse accompany the company comparison as media partners.
More information and registration at www.top100.de.
agilimo group
The agilimo team has already received several awards for its expertise:
- Focus Growth Champion 2022
- TOP CONSULTANT 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022
- Financial Times Top 1,000 – Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2022
- TOP 100 companies 2022 / 2023
The agilimo group has 50 employees at 4 German locations and generated sales of over EUR 105 million in 2021.
You can find more information and general image material on the TOP 100 competition on the Internet at www.top100.de/presse or by sending an e-mail to presse[at]compamedia.de.
Contact person for agilimo Consulting GmbH
Marcus Heinrich
+49 6022 651930
info[at]agilimo.de
