What are differences between an Interim Manager and a Management Consultant?
Management consultants advise and recommend. Interim managers advise, recommend and implement. Consultants are usually employed by large consulting organisations with inflexible methodologies and large overheads. However closely they work with the client – management consultants are ultimately responsible and accountable to the consultancy. An Interim Manager becomes a full member of the management team of the client company for the duration of the Interim Management assignment. As an independent expert, they will operate as part of your team, rather than as an employee of an external organisation. Interim Managers tend to be sensibly over-qualified for the assignment so that they are immediately effective, whilst many junior consultants tend to learn on the job. Also Interim Managers are far less expensive to employ as they don’t have overheads of supervision from a consultancy company. This is backed by research which shows that the costs for Interim Managers are recovered at least t
