Interim management involves carrying out a clearly defined activity at a company for a limited period of time. There are two distinct categories of requirements comprising various assignment areas.
Critical management situations
- Unexpected management shortages and vacancies
- Delays in filling a vacancy and the need for a satisfactory temporary solution
- Initial staffing for a newly created position
- The need for support on turnaround and restructuring efforts
- Critical projects, including strategic reorganizations
- Coaching for executive managers when facing difficult challenges
- Succession planning and support, change in ownership, MBI, MBO, integration activities
- Management of unexpected or exceptional business events
Strategic activities related to business development
- Executing growth and expansion strategies
- Tapping new sales channels or target groups
- Creating new business units
- Expanding internationally
- Relocating production facilities
- Carrying out a strategic realignment; responding to competition; addressing market needs and globalization; launching new technologies, products, brands or systems
- Quickly increasing business strengths, rapidly exploiting innovations
- Managing standard strategic or complex projects of all kinds, especially large-scale projects on top of day-to-day business
- Providing support for M&As, consolidations, joint ventures
- Handling one-time major contracts while forgoing additional permanent employment
- Implementing change management processes
- Carrying out optimization projects and efficiency improvement programs
