Draft:ARGE Consulting

ARGE Consulting is a Turkish management consulting firm based in Istanbul, providing consultancy services in strategy, governance, sustainability, and quality management..

ARGE is a certified advisory organization of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) and a licensed training organization for Integrated Reporting  since 2020.

History
Founded in 1991, ARGE Consulting played a pivotal role in initiating the National Quality Movement in 1998, and later became the first Turkish signatory of the UN Global Compact in 2002.

ARGE has been recognized at the European Parliament with its “Developing Civil Society” project, winning the “Shaping the Future Award” with its commitment to corporate social responsibility in 2002. ARGE also has a corporate social responsibility program that encourages its employees to commit one-day a week to pro-bono work for NGOs since its founding in 1991.

ARGE founded the non-profit Argüden Governance Academy in 2014 to promote good governance in the public, corporate, and NGO institutions. In 2015, the Academy became the first Turkish institution to adopt Integrated Reporting and among the NGO pioneers to do so, globally.

Serving as the B20 Knowledge Partner for governance and sustainability, ARGE joined the taskforce that proposed key recommendations to the G20 in 2015