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The new company is called (Transforming Business It was formed in January 2009 by a core groupl of 15 former Holland Davis consultants. TBO focuses on organizational change to help cliente keep up with evolving market In just six the company has grown to 20 employees and expects to doubles in size to 40 people by the end of the according to Skeeter senior partnerwith TBO. The firm has officez in Houston andSan Antonio, but most of the new hirezs will be based in the Alamo City, Lieberumk says. TBO currently has 12 employeesx in theAlamo City. “We’ved got a mix of people with experience inIT tourism, manufacturing and much more,” Lieberun says.
“It is hard to find a companyh that has all those things to the depty thatwe have. We have the abilityy to play in allthose Lieberum, who spent 24 years in the Air Forcre and 12 years with Holland & says TBO has an older, more experienced grouop of consultants working for it than is commo in the industry. Lieberum came to San Antoniko to supportHolland & Davis’ San Antonio office as it workedf with San Antonio-based insurance giant . “USAA had us out therwe when they started looking at changinvtheir focus,” Lieberum says.
That changes eventually included opening up thei services to military men and womenj in the enlisted The company’s services had previously been limited to officers. The San Antonilo office of Holland & Davis soon expanded and began workinfgwith retail, banking, real financial services and oil firms, including , , and . Now most of thosse clients and several including , are working with the TBO spin-off group. TBO operatee under a fee-based system. Lieberum declineds to reveal revenue figures forthe company.
Alan Markert, senio r consultant with TBO, had a 30-yead career with H-E-B where he served in variousd executive positionsover time, including vice president of financs and vice president of information technology. He says he joinesd TBO because the companyh has similar values to his and becauser he enjoys working withthe people. “Wse all have different skills and experiencews that tend to complementone another,” Markert “Very often someone will have the unique skill set that fits just what you need when workingv with a client.” Lieberum notes that TBO has severalk retired military people on staff as well as formerd executives with and USAA.
Most everyone comews in with years ofcorporatwe experience, he says. “One of our objectives is to bringf in the right expert at theright time,” Lieberum “That, in itself, saves the customerse a lot of time and money. ” The pace of changee in the business worlsd has only increased with the proliferatiob of technology and it is becoming harder to resisr the call for Lieberum says. Companies today are looking for tangiblwe benefits that can be gained from making Markert adds. They are looking for ways to reducwe costs.
TBO goes in and helps theif accounting departments and informationtechnologyy (IT) departments to better manage thesed changes so that they align with their core businesw functions and don’t do more harm than “When times get tough, companiee play a more defensive and if they are not they can get entrenched in that mode and neglecft to plan for success over the long haul,” Markerty says. For example, if a companyg responds to a downturn by sharplgy reducing staff and layinbg off a lot of people with experience and then whenthings turnaround, it has to spend a lot of time and moneyu rehiring and retraining people to get back to wherwe they were.
TBO’s objective is to help companies make reductionsdmore efficiently, so they don’t keep finding themselvess in that position. “There are parts of the economg that are stillpulling back, but I’m startinf to see guarded optimism from some clients,” Liebrum “It is better than I expectesd it would be at this point.” To take advantages of these times, companies need directiobn on which changes to make and he says. “The logo on our businesz cards is a triangle because that is the Greek symbolkfor change,” Lieberum says. “Thaf is who we are. We are agentds for change.
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