As someone who has lived interim management for the past eight years, it has been intriguing for me to see how other professional services or consulting firms have added “interim” as a service tab on their websites to capitalize on a growing worldwide trend. In reality, when you ask the question (and I have many times) you find out that the truth is they once offered it as a service but don’t really now, or it has become simply an extension of their executive search model. The executive registers with organization X, he/she is uploaded to its database and if an opportunity arises for which they could be a match, full or part-time, they might get an interview.
When I’m asked why some of the big multinational search firms who do interim can’t seem to make it work in Canada, or the US for that matter, to any great degree, my answer inevitably is “because they don’t offer executives the opportunity to collaborate on integrated client based business solutions”. We don’t view this as a trade secret, but rather extremely logical in its benefits for executives and clients alike.
