In small and medium-sized companies, the cost of permanent management may often seem disproportionate, bound as it is to the company with the obligation of dependency. Temporary management is the solution, which reduces the economic impact and works in the company for a limited time, sufficient to achieve the agreed objectives.

By temporary management, we mean entrusting the management of an enterprise or a project to “external” managers to guarantee the organisation with continuity, thereby developing the existing managerial skills.

The objective of the temporary manager is to hold a well-defined responsibility in the company for a limited period of time.

Temporary managers intervene at critical moments in the life of a company, whether negative (periods of difficulty and crisis that require rebalancing) or positive (growth, development of new businesses and new projects) to manage acceleration of the change and the innovation needed to compete.

With regard to the recovery or growth objectives, agreed with the owner, the temporary manager plans, proposes and implements operational measures to improve the company performance and management capabilities.

The temporary manager doesn’t limit him/herself to purely analysing the situation and prescribing solutions. On the contrary, he/she takes charge of implementing the agreed objectives in the field. The continuity and development of small and medium enterprises is increasingly conditioned by continued and profound changes that considerably increase the company’s risk.

It is increasingly the case that business people realise that the formula adopted to create and bring success to their company may no longer be suitable in new market and competitive conditions.

The inevitable problem of the passage of generations still hasn’t been resolved in the majority of Italian SMEs, which is vital to guarantee the continuity of the company. In conclusion, there comes a time or phases in the life of every company when there is a need to change, innovate and develop new projects. It is very often the case that there’s a lack of time, resources and skills needed to do this:

• the opening of new markets;

• acceleration of development;

• inclusion/shadowing of a family member to start and develop in view of handing down the company;

• restructuring the sales network;

• restructuring the organisation and production processes;

• launch of new initiatives, new projects, products or services;

• and many more.

In all these cases, temporary management is the valid solution to instil a new corporate approach within the company and to accelerate the changes required to be able to compete.

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