Haselhorst Associates and H&Z are growing even closer. In August 2026, Haselhorst Associates GmbH was legally merged into H&Z Unternehmensberatung GmbH. The merger does not affect ongoing projects and clients. The people behind our projects and our long-standing client relationships, as well as our expertise, remain unchanged.
However, we are expanding the expertise available to you with our new industry Cities & Utilities. The Haselhorst Smart-City-Ranking will also continue as part of H&Z.
We invited our team to spend a winter weekend in a cabin in the mountains for the second year in a row. In the huge ski resort of Warth in Austria, we skied and hiked through the snow in fantastic weather.
2025 was a big year for Haselhorst Associates' Urban Transformation division. Our Smart City Ranking was published for the eighth time this year and received more attention than ever before.
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Local authorities often find it difficult to set up a structured system for measuring progress and success. In her column for the trade magazine "Innovative Verwaltung", Leonie Schiermeyer explains why, despite the obstacles, it is essential to measure and evaluate the transformation to a smart…
The smart city market in Germany is more dynamic than ever before. This is shown by our Smart City Ranking 2025. This year, we have once again closely examined all cities with a population of 30,000 or more and analyzed how German smart cities have developed since the launch of the first ranking in…
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For our new practical dossier, our Urban Transformation team investigated the extent to which cities in Germany have already developed and established monitoring and evaluation concepts for measuring the progress of smart city measures.