Admittedly, we were initially surprised. Not by how we performed—we know from participant feedback that the content, didactics, and methodology of our visualization training are top-notch. Rather, we were surprised to be mentioned as a small ‘training boutique’ among major providers like iversity, Udemy, and ZEIT Akademie.

With such quality awards, skepticism is naturally warranted at first: we constantly receive spam emails offering top positions in dubious rankings, where you ultimately just pay a lot of money for a meaningless label.

All the more gratifying that it can be different: The SWI (Social Science Institute Schad), on behalf of the SZ Institute, has examined the continuing education market according to scientific standards:

“The aim of the SWI study was to capture a sentiment snapshot of customers of providers of general continuing education offerings. To achieve this, customer opinions were gathered in two ways: through a digital customer survey and by analyzing the sentiment on the internet (social listening). Only continuing education providers that received a total of at least 100 votes in their respective category were considered (…)“

The explanation is probably quite simple: “In recent years, we have empowered several thousand people across the world to think with the pen. And a bikablo training simply remains in memory as a very special learning experience.”

“Anyway – the award encourages us to continue on the path we’ve taken.”

More about the ranking and the research methodology here (german only).