Interim management & trouble shooting
Having a business in China brings many challenges to headquarters:
- Language and cultural barriers
- An information deficit from the ground up, which makes business decisions more difficult
- A fast changing business environment that requires quick reactions
- Opaque distribution and supply chains
- Fierce and sometimes unfair local competition.
We can parachute in Chinese speaking, experienced European general managers, finance directors or local board members into your China business at short notice, to gather required information, define the real problems and devise solutions with clear timelines and quantifiable results, while maintaining business continuity and sustaining employee morale.
An interim management assignment often lasts from 3 to 6 months. At the end of our involvement, we will deliver a comprehensive report with appropriate recommendations for further actions and deliverables.
In addition to troubleshooting, our interim managers can conduct specific projects where our clients lack in-house capabilities. The range includes acquisitions, post-acquisition integration, divestments, setting up new organisations in China, dealing with joint ventures, etc.
The advantages
- No long lead times
- No HR formalities in ending our involvement
- Highly qualified to deal with tough problems (but overqualified to run the normalised business in the long term)
- Bringing new skills and contacts to your team
- Uncontaminated by internal politics
- Applying fresh ideas to old problems
Detailed case studies available upon request.
