Posted in General, usability by Tom Michiels on 2nd April, 2008

Siemens has the best corporate website in the world! That is, according to research conducted by the website effectiveness consultancy agency Bowen Craggs and the Financial Times. The websites of BP and Shell share the second place.

It is already the second time that the FT Bowen Craggs Index of corporate website effectiveness is released.

Top 10 from the 2008 Index:

Pos Company Country Score (max 280)
1 Siemens Germany 221
2 BP UK 212
2 Royal Dutch Shell Netherlands/UK 212
4 Nokia Finland 210
5 IBM US 209
6 Unilever UK/Netherlands 203
7 E.ON Germany 198
7 UBS Switzerland 198
9 ING Netherlands 195
10 Coca-Cola US 194

Source: DSO

3 Responses to 'Siemens has the best corporate site'

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  1. Tim Ceuppens said,

    on April 3rd, 2008 at 11:53 am

    I wonder what they used as criteria because I find myself in slight disagreeance with the top 3…

  2. Tom Michiels said,

    on April 3rd, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    According to the website, their methodology is based on the judgement of experts, rather than a ‘check box’ approach. Pretty vague indeed…

  3. Tim Ceuppens said,

    on April 4th, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    A small detail: Some of the websites on that list are of their clients. A list without the Apple site, but with the Microsoft site loses most of its credibility…

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