Free Reports from Executives Online

Executives Online has published a number of research reports exploring topics of interest to our clients and candidates. All of our reports can be downloaded free of charge.

Our most recent reports are:

Bounceback
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Business Exposure
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The New Interim Report
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Challenge of Change – on Change Management in UKplc
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IoD Factsheet on Interim Management
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Bounceback

Our newest report Bounceback addresses issues of managing in an economic downturn, drawing on research conducted among more than 600 senior executives based in Australia who are registered with us. Their answers give perspective on the impact that the current trading downturn is having on organisations. These insights, lessons, and learnings can help any company to weather – and perhaps even benefit from – the current economic climate.
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Business Exposure

One of the key reasons companies come to us is because a senior director has unexpectedly left the company, or their traditional recruitment method is failing and they urgently need to plug the gap. The aim of this report is to identify the level of exposure created in companies by these unexpected gaps or slow permanent recruitment. Drawing on 102 surveys among HR managers and line managers responsible for hiring executive roles, Executives Online has published Business Exposure.

We look at how common the problem is. We explore the roles which are the most vulnerable, and those which are toughest to fill. We consider the problems companies face when they can’t solve a senior recruitment problem, the damage that results, and the steps companies might take to minimise it.
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The New Interim Report

Executives Online's publication The Interim Report explores the types of organisational change which often result in an interim manager being required, day rates and utilisation of interim managers themselves, and the diverse benefits clients derive from leveraging interims. The New Interim Report, the latest issue of The Interim Report, includes a new section focusing on business exposure: a sudden gap in an organisation's management team and the slow pace of permanent recruitment rank strongly among reasons clients engage an interim manager. The New Interim Report also includes sections on interim managers as agents of change, women in interim management, and interims as candidates for permanent executive roles.
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Challenge of Change

In Executive Online's Challenge of Change report we explore how UK companies view and manage change. This groundbreaking report updates our original Challenge of Change report, published in 2002, with new research involving nearly 400 senior executives in roles where they’re responsible for business transformation programmes. It explores such challenging questions as: Is change used as a strategic tool to create better companies that are more able to remain successful, or is it used reactively, in an inward-facing way? What techniques and resources are being used to deliver change? How important are senior managers in this process? And above all, how successful are change programmes?
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IoD Factsheet on Interim Management

In an exclusive initiative, Executives Online has linked-up with the Institute of Directors to sponsor the definitive Business Factsheet on Interim Management, the first in a series produced by the IoD as part of its online business advice service for its 52,000+ members. Executives Online worked with Richard Donkin, Careers Editor at The Financial Times, to produce the factsheet. It outlines the history of interim management, how an interim executive can add value to a business, the process behind finding the right interim manager, and how to get the most out of the experience.
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