Consulting or interim management - the difference!
Interim management (also called interim management) means temporary management. Management tasks are taken over by external managers, so-called interim managers. Interim management is usually only introduced in companies for a specific period of time or a specific project duration. In difficult situations, companies like to fall back on the knowledge and experience of experts. However, there is often uncertainty as to whether a management consultant or an interim manager is the man or the woman of the hour. Questions about strategy, operational business and functional tasks keep coming up with new facets - but basically similar - both on the desks of management consultants and interim managers. So when do I use a management consultant, when do I use an interim manager? • The consultant brings external knowledge with him, supplies concepts and methods in order to work out a problem solution for the customer. • The interim manager intervenes in day-to-day operations and assumes responsibility for implementation. • Consultants and interim managers are similar in that they take on tasks that do not occur routinely in companies, but are rather the exception. • Consultants such as interim managers are brought in when less company-specific knowledge is required than cross-company and cross-industry know-how. But the two differ in one thing: • Consultants design open-ended processes. What does the problem look like, how can it be solved in principle? • The interim manager solves the problem! That is the goal of his mission, which was fixed from the outset.