Each year we are proud to donate up to 10% of our Earnings towards Organizations like Worldvision. More than a decade ago our CEO, Dietmar Dold, adopted a child from Tanzania via Worldvision and since that time Worldvision is one of our preferred and reliable address to see our donation in good hands. In 2011 [...]
Continue Reading →The Lean Community is small and the information flow fast. At least I thought so in the past. Still true is that the group of real lean thinkers is very small and so it is not surprising that this people are very busy and not omnipresent. In the last three month I spend most of [...]
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The increasing traffic and global popularity of this site asked for the next step. From today on, posts in English only on lean interim.com. A professional redesign and our contact details of all of our three active regions: Americas, EMA and Asia Pacific. lean-interim.com in English only We started this blog with some articles in German [...]
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Like death and taxes, commoditization of your products is a given. John Quelch offered a few tips in the Harvard Business Review Dec 14, 2007. But there is more to think about and act on: The focus of your lean activities needs to shift urgently! If you heard a manager blaming “commoditization” for failing to deliver [...]
Continue Reading →Five why is a very powerful method. It’s a logical way to find your root cause. But it can do even more. It can take you on a interesting and maybe funny journey. Most of you probably know the typical (boring) five why example like this one: Why did the machine stop? It blew a fuse. [...]
Continue Reading →The following stages show the assignment lifecycle by which interim managers and executives enter, engage with and exit their assignments. The early stages have much in common with consultancy, as the later stages have with project management, but the combination of insightful analysis and results-driven implementation is the differentiating hallmark of the interim management approach. [...]
Continue Reading →The ‘interim management value proposition’, is the profession’s ‘unique selling proposition’. It is the ‘mantra’ that marks interim management’s offering and scope. 1. Return On Investment Interim managers add value by using their skills and expertise to help deliver an outcome, solution, service or mitigate risk that provides a meaningful ‘Return On Investment’ to a [...]
Continue Reading →Interim management is the provision of effective business solutions by an independent, board or near-board level manager or executive, over a finite time span. Such complex solutions may include change, transformation and turnaround management, business improvement, crisis management and strategy development. Interim managers are often experienced in multiple sectors and disciplines. Interim managers are leaders [...]
Continue Reading →What is the difference between a staffing firm (recruitment agency) and an Interim Management Service Provider? That was my question to Paul Beerli last week. Paul is the president of the Interim Management Organisation in Switzerland, called Dachverband Schweizer Interim Manager (DSIM). He worked before for Butterflymanager, one of the leading Interim Management Service Provider in Switzerland [...]
Continue Reading →Are you aware of Danaher? No? Maybe you heard about Beckman Coulter, Matco, Sybron, Hengstler, Aaliant, Accu-Sort, Alltec, Armstrong Tools, Dexis, Dover, Fluke, Gilbarco, Hach Lange, Hydrolab, Instrumentarium Dental, KaVo Dental, Investech, Leica Microsystems, Leica Bio Systems, Portescap, Radiometer, Thomson, Veeder-Root or Videojet Technologies? No? I haven’t heard about them neither before I became the CEO and [...]
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