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COMATCH founders Dr. Christoph Hardt (left) and Dr. Jan Schächtele (right), two former McKinsey consultants.
Mind the gap Bring your project to completion with the help of a COMATCH, a digital marketplace filling in resource and knowledge gaps for international projects with top-calibre independent consultants. With their quick-acting algorithm, they can match any project to a talented pool of specialised experts. TEXT: JAIME HEATHER SCHWARTZ | PHOTOS: PHIL DERA
“We created a digital model that works with independent consultants and introduces quality criteria to a market that for too long was not transparent,” says Dr. Christoph Hardt, COMATCH co-founder and managing partner. “And this has worked. In the last two years alone we have realised over 450 projects with com90 | Issue 52 | July 2017
panies of all sizes, including seven from the DAX30.” COMATCH was founded by Dr. Jan Schächtele and Dr. Christoph Hardt, both former consultants themselves, and is currently active worldwide. Their freelance consultants are especially engaged with projects in the DACH countries, France, Benelux, the Nordics and the Middle East.
Those interested in finding a consultant can start the process at any time online by filling out a project briefing form, or via a phone conversation with a COMATCH account manager. Either way, it will only take about ten minutes before your request is ready to be run through the matching algorithm. “One of the things our customers really value is how fast we can connect them with a qualified consultant,” says Dr. Hardt. “Within just 48 hours our clients are given three to five matching consultant profiles to look through and in urgent cases we can make that happen even faster.”