{"id":539,"date":"2009-05-08T08:40:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T07:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2009-05-08T08:40:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T07:40:52","slug":"april-icebreaker-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"April Icebreaker Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Delivering Results &#8211; Transferring Skills and Leaving Legacies&#8221;<br \/>\nIcebreaker CEO shares his vision at the International Conference for Research into Interim Management 2009<br \/>\nforim sponsored the second international conference exploring the latest developments in interim management. The conference focused on research into the industry and its further growth. Among those listening to Tom&#8217;s presentation were service providers, interim managers, clients, business focused academics and interested individuals from all over Europe.<br \/>\nTom&#8217;s presentation was well received and sparked a good debate about emerging best practice involving CPD and management capability development. If you want to see the presentation, it is available &#8230;here.<br \/>\nCollaborative partnership with   achieves another win at major energy company<br \/>\nAgainst competition from some of the largest consulting firms in the industry, Icebreaker has succeeded in winning a major assignment for this UK PLC in partnership with strategic JV partner SMT Consulting. This partnership delivers a powerful combination of SMT&#8217;s fact based intelligence with Icebreaker&#8217;s practical implementation experience. This is a new and differentiated approach that offers investors both hard facts and experience, combining the confidence to act with the practical ability to implement. A full briefing on this innovative solution is available &#8230;here.<br \/>\nOperations Turnaround Project progresses well<br \/>\nRelentlessly focussing on winning in the wealth generating private sector &#8211; following previous Icebreaker successes with this Plc client &#8211; we continue to contribute to their UK business. Currently going through a major change management and logistics relocation and rationalisation project, Icebreaker are providing a program management executive who is not only ensuring the future success of the company, its operations and its staff but is also ensuring that, beyond operational change, there is a step change in the performance management and personal development of the management teams. Client MD &#8220;An Icebreaker program is a high return investment in our business just like capex&#8221; For more case studies from previous clients, click &#8230;here.<br \/>\nPrivate equity awards energized by crack Icebreaker Team<br \/>\nThe Icebreaker team networked into the early hours (!) to meet and qualify their shortlist of Corporate Finance partnerships who have shared significant interest in outsourcing their ROI recovery \/ retention activity using the Icebreaker Solution on a flexible retainer basis. The overwhelming feedback from the industry&#8217;s most respected dealmakers, advisers and bankers was that the Icebreaker Solution is ideally aligned with the needs of the private equity market and forms a seamless, more robust, effective and simpler alternative to traditional consultancy, solitary interim managers or agency approaches. In addition, our partners appreciated that engaging with Icebreaker enabled them to reduce the complexity of managing their vast pools of independent resource. Over the next few weeks we expect to finalise our shortlist of key corporate finance relationships and are working now to identify our priority projects to get started on. To get more on our vision and how we differentiate ourselves from consultants and interim providers click&#8230;here.<br \/>\nPlease email tom.pickering@icebreakerexecutive.com, or call on 0207 193 5518 to arrange an appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Pickering CEO Icebreaker Executive Interim Management Limited<br \/>\n&#8220;Delivering Results &#8211; Transferring Skills and Leaving Legacies&#8221;<br \/>\nWebsites: www.icebreakerexecutive.com   www.smtconsulting.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16,1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interim-management","category-news-2","category-uncategorized","tag-interim-management"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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