Boyden global executive search
Boyden interim management
United States
Phone: +1 412.756.1000
Email: bimus@boyden.com
Case Studies
Since 2004, we have helped some of the nation's most prestigious companies find just the right Interim Managers to help chart their course. Below are case studies exemplifying our expertise and knowledge across a wide range of practice areas.
Interim Marketing Executive Saves Boyden Client from Launching Product in US
"It was not the answer the customer wanted to hear, but it was the right answer." That's Tony Barack's conclusion after completing an Interim Manager assignment with a company that had hoped to sell an anti-ballistic protection technology to the United States military. If successful, the new technology would have pushed the company - a composites maker for power transmission products - into a new business and required it to build a facility in the Unites States to manufacture the system. With such risks in play, the company turned to Boyden to find an Interim Manager with the experience to understand the product and its uses and evaluate whether or not it could be successfully sold in the U.S.
Read More >>Interim HR Executive’s Long History in Distribution, Talent for Teaching, and Ability to Put Supply Side Management to Work Helps Auto Maker Improve Operations and Lower Costs
This company is, in many ways, a reflection of the recent history of American automotive industry. Like the OEMs, the auto parts maker has faced difficult obstacles and is in the process of implementing major strategic and operational changes in order to adjust to the market as it is today and build a foundation for future growth. One vital area currently undergoing substantial change is the company's logistics, inventory control, and product distribution systems. To support the design of new strategies, the auto components company contracted with Boyden Interim Management to assign an expert in supply chain management who could help guide the company through part of this complex and vital reorganization process. "My assignment," said Millard Humphreys, the Interim Executive assigned to the project, "was to introduce a total supply chain management strategy so that the company could improve everything from sourcing raw materials to managing inventory."
Read More >>Want to Understand Interim Management - Meet Glen Monigold
Glen Monigold is the perfect prototype of an Interim Manager. An early retiree from a major aerospace company with years of senior management experience, Glen had a deep desire to continue to use his talents and skills to contribute, coupled with the ability to step into the breach and initiate positive change. Glen also had a short stint as an entrepreneur. As a physicist by education and training, Monigold spent most of his career with Boeing in St Louis retiring in the mid-1990s. Subsequently, he joined with old colleagues from Boeing to start a company that built small planes completely of composite materials. Unfortunately after 9/11, the market for airplanes declined dramatically ending his dream of continuing to build airplanes. After some consulting assignments and a demand from his wife to "get out of the house," Monigold said he learned about temporary senior management assignments from Boyden Interim Management and signed on. "I was looking for short-term assignments that would provide a professional challenge yet give me the time I wanted to enjoy semi-retirement," he said. In 2005, Glen registered in Boyden's Interim Management practice and agreed to take on temporary contract assignments. His first was a dandy -- all he was asked to do was take control of an industrial plant in the midst of great change, turn its fortunes around quickly and prepare it for sale. And he did just that. Working with Boyden, Monigold was assigned as the Interim President of a large manufacturing plant in southern Oregon. His predecessor was ill and had to leave the company and the parent needed an experienced manager to right the plant's operations as it was preparing to sell it to better align its products with its strongest markets.
Read More >>Associates
Thomas T. Flannery
(T): +1 412.756.1000
tflannery@boyden.com