Comes the manager for rent, for companies in difficulty – The Republic

Rome – “I’m Mister Wolf and solve problems.” The unforgettable star of the film Pulp Fiction returns. This time to take care of companies in difficulty or undergoing restructuring, mergers and cuts. No longer it called Wolf but generically “Interim Manager”. And is half way between the doctor and the consultant. In practice, a manager for rent, strictly outside the company, called when he pulls a bad air.

In Alto Adige the Temporary Management Service, to small and medium enterprises in South Tyrol, it has just become official through an agreement of collaboration between CNA-Shv and Federmanager Bolzano. The association of craftsmen and small enterprises will promote the service, while the association of managers will find the appropriate professionals according to the demands of the companies. Practically you can “rent” of managers to manage projects within small companies that would not have the strength to keep on staff an experienced manager full time. Explains Maurizio Riolfatti, president of Federmanager: “Times have changed: the international competition has imposed the need for profound changes in organizational and technological nature, in information and process methodologies, products and approach to the market. Small businesses require high skills, making use of project management figures without losing the characteristic family management. “

Appearing for the first time in Britain in the mid-80s, when the crisis forced Ict IBM to reduce staff, the T-Manager has been imported from the US thinking thus to recycle the IBM officials excess. From England the fashion has passed in other countries. Often it difficult to be accepted to the heads, is that the manager should be conferred delegated powers and powers. In exchange for a good interim managers must put together various qualities: expertise on specific business problems, speed of analysis and evaluation, ability to quickly define operating plans but above all the talent to create a motivating work environment.

a recent international survey sponsored by the Senior Management group and Leading Worldwide Network photographs the topic news: the rate of use of interim managers has now risen to 16%, in particular 12% in the range from 20 million to 50 million and 33 % among large companies. But the real market growth potential is in the range of small and medium-sized enterprises that have a great need for managerial skills to compete in a global scenario. For them it is the ideal tool to bring home high-level skills. When you use? 50% of interventions relates to corporate restructuring transactions, especially in medium-sized companies (20 to 100 million), with peaks of over 65%. According to the study the areas of greatest use of managers could be: the management of specific projects (65%, with peaks of 80% cross on the various size classes), the generational shift (47%) and international issues (37 %).

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