Fresh input: Supporting internal management

Adrian Brooks is managing director of a UK based family business, Litestructures Ltd, one of the world’s largest designers and manufactures of staging solutions for global entertainment and sporting events. As the company entered a critical phase in its development, a fundamental restructuring of where and how products would be manufactured, Adrian engaged an experienced interim manager, Peter Alderslade, to help manage the complex transition.

“In Romania, the chosen country for our mass manufacturing plant, Peter put in place an effective set of processes to manufacture high quality aluminium fabrications to short timescales. Making such a thing happen requires seriously accomplished management of all of the available resources, especially difficult in a rapidly developing overseas country”, says Adrian.

“Embarking on a new strategy often means that a company doesn’t possess the quality of management required in house, and so outsourcing this resource is often the only way to help the company navigate its way through the difficult process. It is therefore imperative that the UK possesses a ‘knowledge bank’ of people in the form of high quality, highly experienced and incredibly motivated and energetic individuals like Peter Alderslade. Peter is a remarkable man whose tireless objectivity and patient mentoring and encouragement helps take people and organisations through what might otherwise appear to be impossible challenges.”