{"id":10923,"date":"2020-02-26T19:58:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T19:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eim.com\/cee\/?page_id=10923"},"modified":"2023-08-23T12:42:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T12:42:50","slug":"consultant-or-interim-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eim.com\/cee\/consultant-or-interim-2\/","title":{"rendered":"C-Consultant or Interim"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT, INTERIM MANAGER, CONTRACTOR OR PROJECT MANAGER<\/h1>\n

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What are the differences<\/h2>\n

[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ width=”90%” module_alignment=”center” custom_padding=”||5%||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]You would have definitely heard all of these titles, but what do they actually mean and how do these roles differ from each other.<\/p>\n

Executive Interim Manager is still a fairly new term on the CEE market, which quite often leads to incorrect interpretations. Contractors, consultants and project managers have been and inherent part of the business for much longer, which is why their roles are generally better understood.<\/p>\n

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Management Consultant<\/h2>\n

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Management Consultants primarily focus on improving organisational performance by analysing the existing challenges and developing plans for improvement. They employ well-educated, talented experts with good analytical thinking. Clients can benefit from their extensive bench-marking
\ndata, review of market practices, view across your industry and experience from similar projects. The cost of their work, especially from the market leading professional services organisations, can be quite high.<\/p>\n

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Contractor<\/h2>\n

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Contractor will have technical or other specialist skills and will have the ability to deliver complex projects quickly, on budget and to specification. They are more tactically focused than strategic and are able to follow clear project briefs, workflows and ready-made tasks rather than to design a programme of work from scratch. Many have the ability to deliver complex projects and adapt quickly to a variety of cultures.<\/p>\n

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Project Manager<\/h2>\n

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Project Managers have been present on the market for a long time, usually responsible for the implementation of construction, engineering, IT & telecommunications projects. Project manager\u2019s role is primarily focused on planning, delegating and overlooking the work of the project team and overall monitoring, so that set goals, based on specific criteria, are met within the specified time scale and budget.<\/p>\n

Competent project manager understands all individual project stages, knows how to plan and supervise them, as well as ensure quality and risk management throughout the implementation. They will also regularly report to the designated project committee.<\/p>\n

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Interim Manager<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Executive Interim Manager is a senior executive person with high qualifications and extensive professional experience gained from several high-level management positions, who can be engaged by a company within days for a defined period of time to solve a specific business problem or lead the company through transformation.<\/span><\/p>\n

An interim manager can secure a business for the period of time needed to find the right candidate who will be employed permanently.<\/span><\/p>\n

Neither the management consultant nor the project manager would fulfil this role in such a situation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So which one to engage ? <\/h2>\n

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While it can be said that an executive interim manager is a management consultant to some extent, the consultant is not an interim manager.<\/p>\n

To some extent, an interim manager is also a project manager (in the assignments, when his role is to implement a specific project, process, change or other transformation in the company employing him).<\/p>\n

An interim manager may have project management experience, but the scope of the executive interim manager\u2019s role is much broader and has a much higher level of responsibility. The project manager is expected to have experience in project management, not in business matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Management consultants are usually tasked to prepare and propose solutions, but are rarely involved in the implementation process. Most of them lack external industry experience or understand what it takes to put theory into practice.<\/p>\n

Unlike Executive interim managers, management consultants work for their employer not for you and are often incentivised to cross sell other services you may not need.<\/p>\n

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Your starting point for deciding whether you appoint a Management Consultant, Contractor, Project Manager or an Executive Interim Manager should be determined by your firm\u2019s:<\/p>\n