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CEO Recruitment

26 мая 2022, 14:03 / AIMS International colleagues gather in Bucharest for EMEA meeting focused on operational excellence and ESG best practices

How can you maximise success and minimise risk? A key task for boards of directors is finding the right CEO, someone who can lead the business towards company goals and create value for the owners. Short CEO tenures are extremely costly and demanding. Unfortunately, CEO tenures have become increasingly shorter, except during the pandemic. The 2018 CEO Success Study published by Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consultancy business, showed that CEO turnover in the world’s 2500 largest companies rose to a record 17.5 % in 2018 – three percentage points higher than in 2017 and above what has been the norm for the last decade. CEO turnover increased in 2018 in all regions except China. According to various studies, including one done by The Conference Board, the number of announced CEO successions has subsequently fallen during the pandemic. For instance, in 2020’s second quarter, the decline among Russell 3000 companies was 11.3 %. There is a tendency to hold out in times of crisis and there is probably a pent-up need for CEO changes as we move out of the pandemic. The reasons for the increased need are planned terminations due to retirement and the simple fact that businesses require different leaders during different growth cycles. Directives from the owners, the Board’s strategic work and the CEO’s ability to manage the business are critical success factors. As CEO selection has such crucial consequences, the recruitment process should be given the utmost consideration and attention. Boards and everyone involved in the recruitment work therefore should start asking themselves: Are we doing it right? and: How can we improve our process?

5 Tips to help you cope when home is work

26 мая 2022, 13:57 / AIMS International colleagues gather in Bucharest for EMEA meeting focused on operational excellence and ESG best practices

“Mobility/Home office” and “Diversity & Inclusion” are two rather novel topics, yet quite popular in 2020/2021. They are being discussed globally in almost every workplace. Home office is self-explanatory, but what is interesting to see, is how companies adopt strategies to promote diversity and inclusion. What instantly comes to my mind is gender and race, but there are of course many other factors that contribute to the diversity and inclusion paradigm such as age, religious background, physical abilities and disabilities, etc…

HR-based challenges in the global automotive industry

26 мая 2022, 13:48 / AIMS International colleagues gather in Bucharest for EMEA meeting focused on operational excellence and ESG best practices

At AIMS International, Global Practice we strive to be your best partner. To do so, we need to remain aware of your challenges. As a consequence, we feel the urge to stay connected. We investigate global industry trends, while keeping in touch with our local network. With that in mind, the Global Mobility and Automotive Practice Members, headed by Olivier Legrand, met up -virtually- with Fotios Katsardis, CEO of TEMOT International, and we had the honour to interview Damien Germès, Regional President EMEA and Karin Mehwald, Director of HR at NGK SPARK PLUG, to share their perspectives from a distributor’s and automotive supplier’s side, active in the aftermarket. You can find the article on general challenges here. In our talks with Fotios Katsardis, CEO of TEMOT International (a distributor for the aftermarket) and Damien Germès, Regional President EMEA, and Karin Mehwald, Director of HR for the EMEA region of NGK SPARK PLUG (an automotive supplier), several challenges arose when we zoomed in on HR specifically. We’ll talk about the common issues first, before taking a closer look at each partner’s specific situation.

The “Defence and Security Industry” group, led from France by Nicolas J. Rogier, Managing Partner France (as part of the “Industry” GP led by Grégoire Depeursinge, Managing Partner Switzerland), aims to provide recruitment and talent management services to manufacturers in the sector. This group brings together 10 of our top consultants, all defence and security experts from several AIMS countries (France, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the UK), some of whom have themselves served in their respective armed forces.

The extremely tense geopolitical situation, particularly in Central Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, has recently led to a renewed interest on the part of many European countries in their defence capabilities, and hence in the development of industrial capacities for the marketing of weapons systems, munitions, maintenance and logistics.

AIMS France will be a partner of the EUROSATORY exhibition in June 2024 as a participant in a series of conferences on the theme of “Recruitment and Retention of Talent”.