Certified Entrepreneur – to German Standards
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  • We would like to expressly encourage you to apply for accreditation!

    • Please contact us using this email: ce@dikmu.de.

    • In your email, please give us some helpful information about your profession and references, additionally your contact details, including a person to contact directly.

    • All communications and documents concerning "Certified Entrepreneur – to German Standards" are in English. But for your first request you can also contact us in German .

    • After you have contacted us, we will get back to you with further information at short notice, but also with further inquiries.
       

  • Procedure from application to accreditation:

    • Usually, respectable institutions from countries all over the world may and will propose appropriate reviewers. But reviewers can also introduce themselves directly at the institute as well.

    • The reviewer not only have to possess excellent knowledge of commercial and especially entrepreneurial processes and business conditions, but also have to be familiar with the respective country-specific and cultural framework – if possible as "natives". Appropriate reviewers are typically management and business consultants and coaches or other reviewers (as described above) as well as tax consultant and fiscal auditors with further competence in commercial analysis and consulting.

    • Potential reviewers may apply directly to the DIKMU, submitting meaningful documents: Only a few pages (and everything in one pdf would be fine): All you need is a brief presentation of applying company (e. g. history, areas of competence and activity, references, no advertising material or presentation (!), just factual descriptions), the CVs of the members of the applying company who want to be accredited as reviewers and an official cover letter with letterhead, the central contact person in the applying company for the partnership and a few words, why the applicant thinks that he can and want to work as reviewers in the program and how they will and can access the "market" for the program in their environment. It is also very helpful to enclose a "letter of recommendation" from a adequate and widely recognized person. It is generally very welcome if all documents are sent together in one file (Pdf) - keep it short but meaningful.

    • The accreditation is free of charge.

    • The application will be assessed by the members of the accreditation commission on the monthly meetings and a decision on the accreditation is made.

    • The accredited reviewers will be provided with an original certificate (and as an pdf), a jpeg with a meaningful Logo for being a an Accredited certification body and all further necessary documentation. He is then enabled to start immediately with the acquisition and reviews of companies.

    • Accredited reviewers can work anywhere in the world. But on the other hand, no exclusive rights for regions or countries are given.
       

  • Procedure from review to certification:

    • Search, identification, selection and addressing of appropriate companies to be assessed have to be carried out by the accredited reviewer in his own responsibility.If interested SMEs contact the DIKMU directly for certification, those reviewers who are in close proximity to this company's headquarter will be suggested to requesting company.

    • Before starting the review, the reviewer must inform the DIKMU about the pending review. The DIKMU can only object to the pending review if there are serious reservations and good reasons against. Usually the company can start the review immediately.

    • The reviewer has to follow closely the DIKMU's extensive catalogue of questions and tasks of visual inspection. He has to collect the necessary information and to sift through the submitted documents. He then has to evaluate the company state according to the guidelines given by the DIKMU.

    • It is expressly desired that the reviewer also identifies weaknesses within the assessment process and presents ways of eliminating them.

    • Furthermore, please note: All communication between DIKMU, reviewers and companies for negotiation and review including all documents of the entire certification process will be done and written in English.

    • The resulting report will be sent to the DIKMU along with the reviewer’s detailed assessments and his final suggestion. The DIKMU will examine the review documents and decides on the certification, if necessary with further requirements for the company or retrainings.

    • If necessary, the company must then comply with these requirements under the supervision of the reviewer.

    • The DIKMU then draws up the individual certificate and hands it over to the reviewer, who himself hands this over to the company.

    • The reviewer can and should demand a fee from the company for his certification. The reviewer’s fee can be freely negotiated with the companies. However, it should be based on common national and industry-standard rates for about 2 till 4 consultant days. Furthermore, the reviewer has to charge the company for the certification fee and to pass on the payment to the DIKMU. The certification fee will only be charged in the case of a positive decision for the company.

    • The DIKMU includes the new Certified Entrepreneur on the public list (on the internet) and in the club / network. The club / network is still evolving and will soon be installed and expanded with the growing number of members.

    • The certificate is initially valid for 5 years. Beyond this time the validity of the certificate and membership in the club expires.

    • But, at the end of this period, the company can be re-examined during a new but shortened review. A positive result of the second review then leads to the permanent validity of the certificate and membership in the club.

    • The fee for the reviewer for this repeated review has to take in account the associated significantly lower costs. The certification fee is also significantly lower than the initial certification.
       

  • Procedure from review to certification:

    • Certified SMSs will become members of the upcoming "Club of Certified Entrepreneurs", which brings together and networks members and companies worldwide, but also the accredited reviewers.

    • The members of the upcoming "Club of Certified Entrepreneurs" will be invited annually to a convention at changing places in the world for networking and cooperation.

    • For this purpose, all accredited reviewers are invited, too.