Interim Management
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Z/Yen begins to help clients improve performance by assessing their needs. Assessment often begins with a project which defines the problem, analyses the issues, weighs the options and plans the way forward. When Z/Yen turns to implementation, projects are not always appropriate and Z/Yen sometimes recommends joint ventures, risk/reward projects, search and selection, or interim management. Review projects, and even informal assessments, often identify a major job which must begin as soon as possible. Interim management arrangements work best over periods of rapidly changing objectives, e.g. a turnaround situation, or over lengthy periods where project management techniques do not reduce risk sufficiently to justify the cost or where specific technical skills are important. The distinguishing factor is that a Z/Yen person works directly to our client's specification and is managed by our client. Z/Yen has provided interim managers operating as directors, managers and staff. The roles have included sales and marketing, information technology, finance, acquisitions, strategy, logistics and distribution. Z/Yen people have operated as project managers for new product launches, as programmers for system projects, as software development managers, as trainers and as interim finance managers. Interim management assignments are for ‘as long as it takes’, but typically last between six and eighteen months. Z/Yen is often actively trying to find the long-term replacement through search and selection at the same time. Z/Yen also provides specialist help through its partner network. Experts can have scientific skills (materials, electronics, security, chemicals, satellites, biotechnology), software skills (virtually all languages and systems), industry skills (facilities management, mining, retail, financial services, defence, manufacturing), functional skills (human resources, systems, finance, sales, research) or even human languages. For instance, in computing and telecommunications alone Z/Yen has access to nearly two thousand experts. Z/Yen's network includes individuals with internet experience dating back to 1976, when the first sites outside the USA were connected to the DARPAnet; large scale simulation experts who understand real-time networks measured in gigabit pipes; security specialists who understand secure networks and firewalls; call centre specialists who can assemble 1,000 to 2,000 agents and systems in eight weeks. Z/Yen can provide skills assumed to be in short supply and hard to obtain - experts in internets, intranets, extranets, cryptography, high performance networks, supercomputing, stochastic modelling, expert systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms, simulations, visualisation, high resilience systems and security. In other fields, Z/Yen has similar networks which can deliver rare skills rapidly. For interim management assignments, Z/Yen:
In whatever role, Z/Yen people have the enthusiasm and zest to get the job done. More information: |
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