Consultancy or Interim Management

Concrete change is the staple diet of the "Big Four" consultancies, but large corporate clients, the traditional back yard market for large companies, is disappointed again for the connection between the big ticket prices they pay and the relative lack of experience with their "adviser".

We have all seen that at a given moment, not us Excellent presentation of a partner. You pay a lot of money, and you have received to ensure that no one is dismissed by buying global brand consultancy which you have chosen.

Understand the method?

Great analytical skills and presentation?
Significant "hands" / "there done that 'experience, then ... Not quite ...

Asked you the question:

"What is my organization to be missed, because instead of using experts who know what there is to know about this subject, I use young" twenty something "companies that can downloaded from the methodology consultancy & risqué; with knowledge servers the first time in the weekend? "

Sure it's just a bit exaggerated, is not it?

Well, a number of advisers for the purchase of a few beers one night and see what they say.

Do not be surprised to hear, have not met each other half hour before you, and how based on the previous assignment was as executive consultant Tarquinii at least six months before his promotion to the rank, which was finally approved, or Celine, was sold as an "expert" on the subject that they had no experience, just because nobody was available.

But not only that many large consulting firms are still taking full responsibility for the implementation of the recommendations?

How it:" Obviously we will during the implementation, but ultimately it is necessary that people of your own solutions?

Fair point, you can tell, but after rounds and rounds corporate reduction, some of us who, after the analysis was conducted, only a few extra pair of hands to bring the benefits of home without fuss. Why can not they "Just do it" as they say?

Well, if these scenarios do not entirely unknown, that the interim leadership as an alternative?

It is a change management approach that is based on the locations in the interim senior executive managers that are "reasonably qualified after" as exactly what you want to do. They do not have the reputation of the great fire consulting only their own credibility-track recording, simply because you actually "there" and "do" for. And this is the trick: finding a good service (not like hot agencies) who knows a specialist interim manager you want... And with those few extra gray hairs, only a little more tact and diplomacy than you would expect from a "twenty something" consultant from one of the big companies.

Not surprisingly, given the successes those interim managers more and more companies are looking long and hard about the budget consultation, which would have issued to large companies. Teams of interim managers beat even large companies with major change programs. Interim management is not only a high level of expertise and a low risk way to achieve results; it is usually only half as expensive as advice.