Back to School

I hope that everyone had an excellent Christmas and New Year. 2011 was not without its challenges but the financial services practice of Interim Partners had another strong performance with growth over 30% for the second year running. Given the level of change within the financial sector I expect 2012 to be equally busy with cost reduction exercises, regulatory reform and integration programmes widely present in the market.

Now that the festivities are over and normal service has resumed I am fully focused on what needs to be achieved in 2012 and how to go about it. At the risk of sounding strange, I must confess to thoroughly enjoying writing business plans, it’s a great chance to step back, lift up the drains and think hard about what works and what doesn’t. Something new that I will be doing this year is working towards achieving the Chartered Director qualification with the Institute of Directors – its been a long time since I went back to school but am looking forward to sharpening up on subjects such as finance, strategy, marketing and corporate governance.

I would like to ask those within the Interim Partners network: what are your objectives for the year and what are you doing that is new for 2012?

Andrew McIntee is Director of Financial Services for Interim Partners.

One Response to “Back to School”

1. Donald Davies Says:
   January 8th, 2012 at 3:49 pm

   Happy New Year and good luck on your working towards the Chartered Director qualification this year Andrew, it looks a great course.

   I was assessed and awarded Chartered Manager (Chartered Management Institute) over a year ago and finished my MBA studies in the summer just before starting the new role in Dublin through Interim Partners.

   For 2012, next week I am starting my Professional Doctorate in Management via Complexity Research Group, University of Hertfordshire.

   The core theme is Complexity in Organisations and it is a 3 year part-time PhD, the research required will help me fill the spare hours whilst away from home on assignment, this approach worked really well for when I did my 5 year MBA via distance learning.

   My other goal for this year is to increase the billing days, last year was my best year for a while with only 2 assignments taking up most of the year.

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