| Comparison – Propinar Interim Manager v/s Management Consultancy | | |  | | | Sr. No. | Propinar Interim Manager | | Management Consultancy | 1. | The Propinar Interim Manager undertakes the assignment in person, drawing on first hand experience to offer fast-track solutions. | | Senior consultants win business, junior personnel deliver consulting firm
methodology with management support. | 2. | Practical experience of tried and tested solutions; ownership of projects and change. | | Advice/theory on strategy, process and action - client implements change. | 3. | The Propinar Interim Manager becomes part of the client's management team for a pre-defined period. | | Consultants are managed by their consulting firm which has a costly overhead to cover.
| 4. | The Propinar Interim Manager will offer advice, counsel and mentor client team members. | | Senior consultants will select and install their team on the assignment; very little knowledge is left behind. | 5. | Propinar selects from an extensive pool of professionals with specific functional knowledge, matched by a suitable level of experience.
| | Specific consultants are selected from an available employees of the firm.
| 6. | Professionally qualified, experienced line managers, 20 years plus business experience. | | Professional consultants, graduates or MBAs with little first hand knowledge and varying years of experience. | 7. | Propinar's professionals want to perform and move on to their next assignment. | | Extending the engagement is the main goal.
| 8. | Not all things to all people; Propinar will not take on projects where our experience is not well suited for the client's success. | | Attempt to provide services for every need regardless of assignment requirements or uniqueness. | 9. | Senior professionals will typically command day rates in the range of $800 to $1250. | | Day rates for consultants range from $1,500 for a junior associate to $4,500 plus for a firm partner. | | | | | |  |
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