CbD

Consulting & Management of Discontinuities
Interim Management
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Motivation for companies

YOU remain in the "Driver-Seat"

  • YOU regain options and space for alternative decisions
  • YOU take out the urgency effect and gain air for to find and implement a good and stable solution
  • Positions can be reassessed and recruitment of a long term leader can be run quietly while organisation remains stable
  • YOU increase your success rate in recruiting of a key position thanks to elimination of time pressure
  • Execute a controlled intermediary step (fr: "Reculer pour mieux sauter"; step back for a better jump)
Minimise disturbance in the organization
  • Fast start of operational activities, quick learning
  • Not involved in internal rivalries, no one needs to worry about their jobs
  • No implicit commitments within the organization, other than the client. Independence of internal groupings
  • No internal rivalries with managers on same or superior level
  • Flexible duration of the engagement of an experienced manager, as long as there is added value

Additional benefits for the company

  • Existing approaches are challenged in a constructive way, based on practical experiences
  • Formerly "forgotten" talents can be (re)discovered within the organisation
  • Change from within, rather than by external consultants

Definition
Interim Management

Temporary provision of management resources and skills. Interim management can be seen as the short-term assignment of a proven heavyweight interim executive manager to manage a period of transition, crisis or change within an organization

 

Typical Interventions

  • Unexpected requirement for management capacity

  • Coverage of temporary peaks

  • Projects which require special skills

  • Start-up / Ramp-up of units, products or market activities