The Way to Exit the Crisis Through An Interim Management Mission

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After the fast departure of a leader from a subsidiary with 1000 people of a large group, this interim management mission is to support the group’s interim general manager, to implement my methodology of taking a position in the interim management of general direction and aiming at giving to teams dynamism again, to make proposals … Read more

How to let an Interim Manager do “the job” or “a great job”?

The background of this article are two French firms in trouble, with around one hundred employees and twenty million in revenue each, hiring an Interim Manager. These two manufacturers of industrial equipment are subsidiaries of two international Groups of about 1,000 employees and € 200 million in revenue. Each local company suddenly loses his top … Read more

What will be the role of an Interim Manager in the future?

The world is changing rapidly under the influence of the monetization of society, the pressing environmental issues (1) and the digital transformation (2) that affects all fields. The functioning of organizations is inevitably impacted by these changes, as well as the way we work and therefore the role of an Interim Manager. But how? A … Read more

3 Steps to Flexible Executive Recruitment

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We all like our CXOs to be ‘dynamic’. It’s something of a cliché, but it’s going nowhere. Because this particular buzzword is rooted in real business and executive recruitment. Entrepreneurship is characterized by constant innovation and upheaval. For progress to be achieved, businesses and the individuals who lead them must live and breathe change. To … Read more

Case Study: Swiss-Indian Software Development

Swiss-Indian Co-operation in the Area of Offshore Software Development In the mid 1990s, large corporations in Europe and the USA realized there was a huge lack of skilled software engineers. The need to solve the Y2K problem within a short timeframe, combined with unsuccessful education policies of the respective governments were two of the major … Read more

A Borderless Marketplace for Executives

A borderless marketplace for international top executives, interim managers and executive consultants Most of us are top executives or consultants (or both). As active executives, we are quite often looking for new people, to recruit them, or to hire them as contractors. As consultants, our daily concern is to find the next mission. As executives … Read more

Interim Management: Turnaround

Interim Management – Life at the Sharp End (Part 3) Turnaround 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 set. Well, I cannot offer you quite that … Read more

Interim Management: The First Week

Interim Management – Life at the Sharp End (Part 2) 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 yourself well, you have your script and you have … Read more

Interim Management: Business

Interim Management – Life at the Sharp End of the Business Today, one of our certified iCEOs, interim manager Peter Wolf shares his experiences as interim manager. This insight view gives you interesting and helpfull tipps as to the expectations of the client company and how to prepare an interim assignment. Not for the fainthearted … Read more