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Managing Director Bahnhofstrasse

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Transparency in the billion dollar market interim management: wide, younger, colorful, feminine Kreuzlingen: interim management in modern enterprises is the normal instrument in the context of the recruitment. In times of increasing lack of suitable executives, recruiters appreciate the quick availability and flexibility of the Interim Manager. The current study of the industry association AIMP (Arbeitskreis interim management provider) also for the first time differentiated daily rates and numbers for the different management and salary levels. The market offers still great growth potential, because in 41% of the companies still largely ignorance wider, younger, colorful and female become interim supply rules that in recent years, so Dr. Harald Schonfeld, Board member of the AIMP and Chief of butterflymanager GmbH.

As in the previous year, bridging of vacancies with 35% of all cases is the most common reason for the call after an interim manager. What is interesting is that 17% of the Held stakes in project management. Issues such as comprehensive change played a somewhat lower management and restructuring. 8% of customer requests, changes relating to a change of ownership prompted to insert an interim manager. As commercial tasks, such as accounting and finance (with 28%) dominate the operational functions.

Looks similar to it management with the General, which makes up 24 percent of the appointments. The evident surge in demand purchasing and procurement by 5% to 8% recorded in 2007, quality management from 1% to 4%, and IT/organization from 1% to 7%: the knowledge highly qualified specialists is to generate management interim seems the easiest and fastest. Interim Manager used in 55% of cases on the first and second level of the company. But in the third and fourth levels, as well as accompanying coach and head of project manager used interim more. The demand for interim managers is unchanged up in the automotive industry, with 19%, followed by telecommunications with 16% and the chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech industry, whose share in the interim operations of 9% (2006) 2007 rose by 15%. The trend to longer-term operations. Projects dominate with 45%, the 7 to 12 months (in 2006 only 39%). At least 20% of the projects span more than 13 months. Has (2006, 51 years) and the percentage who doubled interim managers to 16% tapers in the middle on 48 years age. Where older gentlemen were interim manager mainly focusing on corporate bailouts, gone are the days”, as Harald Schonfeld, Director of the industry association.

OLV Easycash

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easycash September 2009 authorized payments for third-party payment network in Ratingen for the first time. The payment service provider easycash takes over immediately the authorization of debit card payments debit to around 2,500 Aral petrol stations in Germany. Easycash and the Deutsche BP, the parent company of Aral AG, agreed contract with each other. The previously used electronic cash method is replaced in large part by the lower signature-based method. In addition to significantly higher transaction speeds, BP also benefits from a significant reduction of in costs. Until the end of August, already 700 gas stations on the innovative solution were moved, more 1,800 Aral petrol stations follow until end of September. Innovation in the payment of BP BP operates 2,500 Aral gas stations nationwide and processed around 150 million card payments.

To do this, the company maintains its own payment network. So far almost exclusively the PIN-based ec cash method was the acceptance of debit cards used, where the banks involved security against possible non-payment grant. In the future, BP the cashless debit card payments at Aral petrol stations mainly settles with proven, signature-based debit. To avoid authorization via easycash to defaults, BP uses easycash as authorization Center: the debit card payments are routed from the BP network in the network of the easycash and authorized there. Secure authorization his consistently optimized risk management uses as a basis easycash to the online direct debit authorization. It is based on the extensive experience of easycash’s largest German direct debit processor with the most meaningful lock file in the German market. This solution enables the optimal use of the direct debit procedure for minimizing risk and significant cost advantages in comparison to the electronic cash charges BP.

In addition to the cost benefits, payment processing is accelerated also significantly: easycash processed an OLV transaction within 250 msec. and so even cash throughput. OLV acquiring for full security BP takes the Receivables purchase service OLV acquiring service provider claims.