Friday, November 6, 2009

Job offer - Italy - Management

N° offre Position Country Sector Duration
1308 Directeur Commercial Italy, Turin Equipements médicaux Permanent position

Assignment - Directeur des operations de la filiale Italienne du groupe.
- Membre du comité de direction.
Objectives - Manager la force de vente.
- Mettre en œuvre la politique commerciale et marketing locale en collaboration avec le président de la filiale.
- Developper les points de ventes (d'une cinquantaine à ce jour à plus de 150 à moyen terme)
Duration Permanent position
Start Q1 2010
Main business activity Filiale Italienne d'un goupe coté (créé en 1976 - CA 110 M€ en 2008 avec un effectif de plus de 700 personnes) dans le secteur de la correction auditive.

Job offer - France - Interim Management - Software

N° offre Position Country Sector Duration
1320 CTO - Directeur R&D France, Bordeaux Software 3 months

Assignment - Audit du département de production logicielle actuellement en place (100 personnes).
- Recommandations en terme d'évolutions technologiques sur la base des investigations déjà effectuées
- recommandation et éventuel soutien aux démarrages des nouveaux projets et des partenariats technologiques et fonctionnels
Objectives - Proposer un plan de rationalisation et d' optimisation du process de production de logiciels et de l'organisation du département de production en relation avec le marketing produit et le QA.

- Conseiller et supporter activement le démarrage de nouveaux "chantiers" (lancement de nouveaux produits ou de saut technologique majeur sur les produits existants).
Duration 3 months
Start Q4 2009
Main business activity - Filiale française d'une multinationale américaine, (CA de plus de 100 Mds $ en 2008 et 32 000 collaborateurs), société de technologies de l’information et de services opérant dans le domaine de la santé.
- La société développe une large gamme de logiciels de gestion des activités médicales et administratives et de pilotage d'établissements de santé. Elle propose également un suivi associé de services en réseau, d’activités d'infogérance et d'applications statistiques.


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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

CEO Europe Expert File by Avigdor Luttinger

Building Enterprise Applications to Withstand Project Failure

The evolution of Cloud Computing and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) has brought about some fundamental changes in IT that is drawing attention to how IT projects are being managed and paid for.

The real goal of software development is the fulfillment and delivery of requirements. Yet, the puzzling reality is that (according to NIST) 70% of the defects in a delivered application are injected during a project's requirements and design phase, and 60% of those are discovered only during user acceptance testing! At that point, the cost of fixing defects is 20 times higher compared to if the problem were fixed during the design phase...

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Job offer - UK - Financial Services

N° offre Position Country Sector Duration
1306 VP/Finance UK, London Financial Services Permanent position

Assignment This role includes driving the activity of 1000+ advisers across this international bank. With 30 direct reports you will be asked to design and deliver the strategy for investment products and financial advice across this UK Retail Bank - defining the activity and product set for 1000+ advisers across the UK.
Objectives Responsibilities

# Designing and delivering a market leading product strategy which increases revenues – through competitive design and marketability; Increasing customer flows by driving supply-led demand and attracts and retain advisers – through the knowledge they have a best in class proposition.

# Design and implement sales processes across three channels which maximise adviser efficiency and deliver first class customer experience, increase revenues through cross-sales and optimised use of time; and, Invest in and utilise leading edge tools – such as stochastic modelling and asset allocations tools.

# Designing and delivering advisory processes and standards which drives customer loyalty, advocacy and trust; and Manage risk by ensuring consistently high quality advice is given by 1000 + advisers over three channels (mitigating mis-selling risk and associated reputational, regulatory and financial damage – for example fines given to Lloyds, Abbey and £300M costs in last 5 years)