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Launching a difficult project

The company needs to deal with a strategic project such as making a major improvement of the industrial tool, restructuring, reorganizing, implementing a new information system, implementing a merger program … and the company needs to implement these changes without any damage to the day to day activity.

Various reasons make it difficult for a SME to take the responsibility of an outstanding project :

The management team can be very involved in day-to-day management and may not be able to spare time to work on this task or may not have the specific skills.

The management team can have to work on the implementation of this new project on the field, which is highly time consuming.

There can be financial and cultural difficulties to find adequate specialized consultants.

The only solution is to bring a support to the general management to guarantee that the foreseen change will occur. There are two ways of bringing such a support :

Controlling the operational management inside the company : if it is necessary to do field work, the manager from FONTENAY MANAGERS is placed in the position to support the manager. Its mission starts with an operational analysis and an action plan to define the objectives that the staff has to reach. Then, the manager deals with the necessary changes, besides the top executive.

Supporting general management : if the management team is able to deal with the project, then the manager from FONTENAY MANAGERS can help the executive to define the project details and to supervise the project’s implementation.

A PROFESSIONAL TRANSITION MANAGER INSTEAD OF AN INTERIM MANAGER: supporting a company which has to deal with an exceptional project requires a specific managing style. The manager from FONTENAY MANAGERS is used to this type of management: he knows how to define objectives on the very short term and how to achieve them while imposing rapidly and firmly his leadership and strengthening the executive position. He is at ease with the style of project management.