Leadership

Interim Management / Leadership

Was tun bei Unternehmenskrisen? 5 Schritte zum Erfolg

Die entscheidenden Schritte zum Turnaround können mit fünf Fragen gestartet werden. Die Antworten zeigen auf, welche Maßnahmen zur Verbesserung führen. Ursachen Liquidität Maßnahmen Stakeholder Langfristiger Erfolg 1. Was sind die Ursachen für die finanziellen Probleme des Unternehmens? Es ist grundlegend, die Ursachen für die finanziellen Schwierigkeiten des Unternehmens zu identifizieren, sei es eine schlechte Geschäftsstrategie, ineffiziente Betriebsabläufe, mangelndes Cashflow-Management oder externe Faktoren wie Marktentwicklungen…

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November 7, 2024
Interim Management / Leadership / Problem Solving

Interim: When Was the Last Time Your Company Hired a Surgeon?

Not at all, because you don't need surgeons that often. That's why you don't hire interim managers either, but instead give them a task to deliver. A very important #1 task. A task that achieves a significant effect. Just like a surgeon. Not the cheapest, but the best specialist for the task at hand. There is a widespread misconception about interim management that compares…

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August 16, 2024
Leadership / Problem Solving

Seek Problems, Generate Profits

Don´t we already have enough problems? Why should we seek out more? Very simple: Call it tasks, opportunities, or challenges, the way to profit requires to solve your problems. Faster, more effectively and at lower cost. Too many problems remain essentially unresolved. Often they are kicked down the road until it´s a big problem. Traditional problem solving suffers from these four ills: Slow identification…

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July 1, 2024
Leadership / Supply Chain Management

Strategies to Mitigate Risks from Supply Chain Disruptions

What to do when faced with delays and problems in the supply chain? The high volatility in purchase delivery forces decision-makers to adapt their supply chain strategies. Managers have fundamentally four options to respond. These four critical approaches are: 1) Increase inventory from just-in-time to just-in-case2) Find a second (or third) source of supply3) Reshore production to the US or to regional suppliers4) Leverage…

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August 29, 2022
Implementation / Leadership / Uncategorized

Talk is Cheap

We live in the age of experts. There is an expert for every topic. We have a large number of experts at our disposal, especially in management. Who actually is an expert sometimes remains in doubt. A humorous definition is: "An expert is a specialist who has traveled from more than 200 miles afar." Talk is cheap. Getting things done is not. As indispensable…

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July 20, 2022