# Wirtschaftswoche – Best of Consulting Award

- Link: https://goek.consulting/en/wirtschaftswoche-best-of-consulting-award/
- Published: 2021-02-28T20:22:07+00:00
- Author: Vaishali Uniyal

**Date: February 28, 2021 – **Messages

**GÖK was able to win the current competition of the  [Wirtschaftswoche – Best of Consulting](https://www.beste-mittelstandsberater.de/2020/goek-consulting-gmbh.html)–
and is thus one of the few companies among medium-sized consulting companies that
have been recognized as outstanding consultants by all leading business magazines.
We are proud of this and would like to thank our clients for their trust in our 
performance during the 30 years of GÖK Consulting’s existence.**

The prize was awarded for a project that GÖK carried out together with its sister
company [NextHealth](https://nexthealth.de/) at the Cologne Hospital ([Klinikum der Stadt Köln.](https://www.kliniken-koeln.de/))

“We are very proud of this award, especially since the complementary consulting 
of GÖK Consulting with its sister company NextHealth was evaluated so successfully.
The employees of the clinics had been unsettled by the tense financial situation
and the necessary restructuring course adopted by the new management,” report Ulrich
Pieper and Dr. Stefan Drauschke, Managing Directors of GÖK Consulting. In the years
before, changing strategies of the former management had rather fueled the situation
instead of improving it.

“In addition to the strategically necessary changes which were developed by the 
management of[ Cologne Hospital](https://www.kliniken-koeln.de/) together with GÖK
Consulting, it was necessary to convince the employees for the plan. Individual 
professional groups had withdrawn and cooperated less with their colleagues from
other areas,” emphasize the two GÖK specialists. “Therefore, it was important for
them and their team not only to understand the strategy, but to actively help develop
it. This created trust in the management’s course and we were able to re-establish
more togetherness across the professional groups.” Among other things, GÖK Consulting
was also involved in evaluating and preparing figures, data and facts in a way that
was comprehensible to everyone. Together, “Klinikum and GÖK/NextHealth” understood
how to implement a jointly developed strategy in fields of action and projects.

For participation to be lived, the entire “system” of the workforce had to be involved,
for which the consultants applied their onion-like “four-layer model”: The outer
layer, the so-called K4 (K=circle), consists of a representative cross-section of
all employees in the company. K3 is made up of executives from all professional 
groups at levels 1-3, while the innermost K1 represents the decisive steering circle
with TOP executives. The members of K2 are the actual cross-professional project
group that works on content and formulation. The GÖK/NextHealth team organized workshops
and conferences for the top-down-bottom-up process with a total of more than 500
participants, in which the company’s employees were able to contribute their ideas
for goals and measures for the future of the clinics. The results were then prepared
by the consultants, presented to the management and discussed and decided upon there.“
In this way, even employees who do not hold a management position were able to contribute
their suggestions for improvement,” says Pia Drauschke (NextHealth).

The seven-month work has improved cooperation, says [Baumann,](https://www.kliniken-koeln.de/Ueber_uns___GF.htm?ActiveID=1071)
the clinic’s managing director. He says, “That’s the most important basis for us
to continue at all and also to remedy the financial imbalance.”