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World financial crisis seems to settle down, and so does the credit-dependent automotive industry. But grizzled veterans know that today we live in very different world. Good old times of drastic growth are over, fat players got lean, and so did the cash-starved supply chain. Heavily wounded corporations plunged into massive cost-reduction and headcount cutting … Read more
The retention of good customers is the number one priority Every business, large and small, depends on customers for its livelihood. Surprisingly, a great many businesses fail to honour this common-sense principle. Excellence in customer service is the single most important element in determining your company’s future success or failure. Regardless of the product or … Read more
Business processes: How to reduce cost with Nano technology In times of financial prudence, credit scarcity, retrenchment, solvency risk and everyone demanding more for less, how can business organizations improve their business processes and grow their profits? How can compliancy in best business practice mean reduction in facility costs? Are there still opportunities to do … Read more
General Management: Objective – Turnaround and Sell The company had achieved remarkable growth in its first 10 years – on the surface it looked good, with a new large factory just opened and well equipped in the capital-intensive industry that Print is. The then institutional owners asked me in to provide them with a consultancy … Read more
The next strategic battlefield for SMBs? Global Accounts: a serious business opportunity for global SMBs Tough economic times always offer company’s the opportunity to find better ways to do things. This applies well to sales and marketing. All companies, large and small have to be sharper in their decisions on where to allocate their resources. … Read more
Part 1: Interim Management: Life at the Sharp End of the BusinessPart 2: Interim Management: The First Week Interim Management, is there a Recipe? Ideally, what you would like to have is sort of a recipe, telling you what your ingredients are, how to stir them and finally at what temperature the oven should be … Read more
Part 1: Interim Management: Life at the Sharp End of the BusinessPart 3: Interim Management: Turnaround Interim Management – The First Week Never is the saying more true to the letter “There is no second chance for a first impression” than when you first enter your new company as an interim general manager. You prepared … Read more
One of our vetted iCEOs shares his experiences as interim manager. This article gives you interesting and helpful tips as to the expectations of the client company and how to prepare an interim management assignment. Interim Management – Not for the fainthearted For the past thirteen years I had been working as a management consultant … Read more
Take an inside look at the different phases of an interim management assignment. Obviously, each assignment has different requirements and focus points, but still, the course of an Interim Assignment is generally the same. One of our vetted executives, Didier Douziech subdivides an interim management assignment into the following seven phases: Phase 1: Select the … Read more