Managing operations is becoming the business
Unit and withdrawal management
Anxious to withdraw from a non-core activity and focus its internal resources on more promising development issues, the general management of this manufacturing company asks X-PM to take up the management of both the unit and the withdrawal project.
Unit budgets are met and the non-core activity is sold within 12 months.
Management of an IT project
The new president of an internet service provider needs to catch up on three lost years and reach competitors level by providing a global ADSL offer: Internet, Telephone, Television.
X-PM takes up management of information systems and reorganizes operations.
Results: a responsive organisation that totally supports the take-off of ADSL and offering of Voice on IP within minimum time.
Interim management
As the head of this plant retires, there is no obvious successor within the company while at the same time severe cross functional streamlining is required to improve product and service delivery.
X-PM assigns a manager with sound industrial background who streamlines operations within a short time frame and ends up joining the company.
Hands-on executives to manage operations
As the world’s economic and demographic balance evolves, companies must relocate their investments from West to East, consolidate their support functions, revisit their businesses and outsource non core activities. Managing these transitions is becoming the business.
- Business restructuring: turnaround, redeployment, sale, disposal, outsourcing, merger, relocation of operations
- Performance step change: functional or multifunctional projects across businesses: finance, human resources, information systems, procurement and logistics
- Urgent staff and line management needs: general management, marketing and sales, engineering and production, finance, legal, human resources
X-PM helps transitioning companies with additional management on an ad-hoc basis through the provision of both hands-on executives and comprehensive situation reviews.
