“The greatest concentration of talent is to be found in interim management firms”

There is an ever-increasing need for high value-added solutions that help businesses improve their competitiveness. Interim management is one such solution, as it does not increase the permanent workforce and resolves situations for which the organisation lacks managerial resources.

Madrid, 5 December 2022

Executive intelligence or collective intelligence within the field of management represents the greatest asset for a company specialising in interim management. It is most common to engage the services of a single executive; however, on occasions – and particularly in the field of technology project management – the involvement of a team of professionals who complement one another is required to deliver a specific project. It is in these cases that we propose one of the most powerful solutions in the field of interim management: the ‘executive pool’, comprising teams of interim managers.

The combination of talent, experience and leadership makes interim managers the ideal project directors. Arriving at a company and taking the necessary steps to resolve contingencies of any kind is part of their daily routine. To achieve this level of effectiveness, these professionals – the majority of whom are senior executives – have typically had an international career that has seasoned them through countless challenges. In their respective fields, they all possess what in Roman law is termed ‘auctoritas’ (the distinctive quality possessed by certain individuals due to their moral or intellectual standing) and ‘potestas’ (legitimacy conferred by civil society). In this regard, interim management firms manage the largest pool of auctoritas and potestas available to organisations, with one essential aim: the temporary management of projects.

When a company requests our services to carry out a specific project over a defined period, we are ready to select the most suitable professionals and put them in charge of that mission within a matter of days. Prior to this, we establish a project period with a start and end date for the service, as well as the cost and the guarantees we offer our clients. On occasion, and due to various circumstances, it may be necessary to replace the selected interim manager, although this happens very rarely. In such circumstances, the replacement is arranged within a maximum of 2 or 3 days. For this and other reasons, it is advisable to contract interim management services from a specialist firm, rather than directly from interim managers, as the latter do not have the organisational structure to support their service. Most importantly, such firms must be part of international networks capable of providing coverage in any country in record time. This is the case with EPUNTO Interim Management, the partner for Spain and Portugal within the Valtus Alliance, which has a presence across five continents and a roster of over 60,000 interim managers in its international databases. A true task force capable of resolving the most complex situations as effectively as possible, because they are the leading experts in their fields.