Management systems

Situation

The company is heading towards a new financing round. Potential investors and money lenders are making their contribution dependent on the prior introduction of sound management, financial control and information systems [see Toolbox] so that they can have trust into the future good results and necessary transparency: it must be possible to discover as early as possible any risk and weakness so that corrective actions can be made in time.

Offer

The icima interim manager has the habit of identifying, transferring and adjusting such systems as they are typically used in (often even small) subsidiaries of successful corporations to the specific needs of an independent company.

He knows that the staff and management of small and medium companies often do not have the knowledge, experience and information to develop, implement and operate the management systems which are considered as being of vital importance in other companies.

Sometimes, there is also some resistance which must be overcome. It may be the result of fearing the unknown or of being concerned by a possible loss of status and influence. Last not least, one must be ready to deal with positions like "We have always done it like this", "We never did it like that and it cannot function for we are different" and "Not invented here".