Roland Berger’s average score has dropped more than two points over the past two years. In
2013 H2, the firm sat in fourth position. Today, it is down near the bottom of our table, and a
worrying 50% of our sample scored less than 8.0.
The drop is most evident in appeal and resilience. On the former, PowerPoint presentations
(a format that can work well) need to do more to guide the reader through a potentially

Bucking the trend among strategy firms, Roland Berger has risen from 6th to 4th in our rankings
on the back of some more eye-catching material. And we really mean eye-catching: no other
firm quite measures up to Roland Berger’s ability to bring data to life through graphics. There’s
a consistency to the look and feel of most of its pieces which means that they’re both familiar,
and instantly recognisable as being from Roland Berger. And while many will be left cold by its

Roland Berger jumped up our ranking last review, but taking a longer view, the firm has remained fairly consistent. The firm
scores particularly well on differentiation, managing to pick very specific topics that others aren’t writing about such as
restructuring GCC companies or portfolio management in the chemical industry.
Material delivered through the think:act format – see for example How to integrate overseas acquisitions successfully –