Despite a few decades of globalisation, still a regional diversity can always be found. While on the one hand, Interim Management may be fully known to some people, it was quite surprising, that when arriving in Central Europe (including Austria) it was far from common. Companies needing urgent advise would address perhaps external consultancy giants. The advice was perhaps not only costly, whether it would be correctly and adequately implemented was still to be seen. And as experienced, a certain level of conservatism in many companies is quite rampant, sometimes even leading to reversal of advice.
Interim Management adds a certain dimension, when the concerned professional is not merely an external advisor, bringing in just extra expertise (whichever field that may be), (s)he is part of the decision-making hierarchy in an organisation - albeit for only a definite period of time, yet perhaps long enough to make a difference.
And it is perhaps because of this far reaching impact, that could be interesting to companies, especially in times of crisis. The crisis brought us the necessary confrontation, whether our management-styles, or business in general was efficient enough, and perhaps we realised having ignored or ousted (cost-saving?) certain too essential areas.
Interim Management offers many benefits as the scope and duration can be absolutely tailor-made and without the constraints of a traditional employment of senior positions, and therefore in this region is having a potential of becoming a boom shortly.
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