Interim Management Services.

Most providers of interim management services are generalist agencies, who provide executive interim managers across all key professional disciplines. The success of this business model depends upon building relationships with HR Directors, and gaining repeat business; perhaps launching the relationship when an executive interim finance manager is required and the being the firm which receives the call when an interim IT manager after that.

Providers of interim management services which use this model can be very successful, but at Executive Interims we take a different approach, which relies much more on the delivery of value to our clients.

We specialise in supply chain disciplines, and by supply chain we mean: purchasing or procurement, inbound logistics, raw materials warehousing, manufacturing (or in a service industry "operations"), finished goods warehousing and outbound logistics. Of course to some clients "Supply Chain Management" also means the optimisation of the way in which extended supply lines are managed; for example from offshore manufacturing locations.

From data available from the public domain, we know that to some of the larger generalist interim management agencies, supply chain represents probably no more than 10% of the number of executive interim managers available to them. Whereas to us it's 100% of our business.

Being specialists ourselves means that we attract more experts in our field and that means that we have more supply chain interim managers and consultants available for clients.

We simply don't believe that our clients will get the best results if the people we provide them with are good, but not quite good enough. So, our proprietary supply chain expertise profiling system identifies exactly the right individual rapidly. And, because our specialism gives us such depth, the chances are that we'll have someone with exactly the right expertise, who even has experience of working in that particular industry and has delivered exactly the same results in a "previous life". That's the sort of low-risk/high-return solution that we can deliver. Take a look at a case study and see what you think.

Another differentiator is that we not on provide interim managers, but also supply chain consultants from the "Big Four" firms, so whatever the "supply chainge management" challenge, we can deliver it. Our experts are not there "just to keep the seat warm". They're there to deliver value, far and beyond what they're costing you. Take a look at a case study.

We also believe that it's critical to understand more than generalist interim management companies about the technicalities of what our clients want our consultancy or interim management services to achieve.

That sort of extra understanding is particularly helpful when a client is keen to move quickly and the requirements for the assignment are being developed "on the fly". In fact it isn't unusual for a client to approach interim management agencies with just an informal outline of their requirements. So, at this point an in depth understanding of what the client's trying to achieve, and the risks of doing so, counts for a lot.

So if you're looking for supply chain consulting and interim management services and would like to know what Executive Interims can do for your organisation, feel free to contact us for an exploratory conversation.