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The new company is called (Transformin Business Operations). It was formed in Januar y 2009 by a core group of 15 former Holland Davis consultants. TBO focuses on organizational changw to help clients keep up with evolvintgmarket conditions. In just six months, the companh has grown to 20 employees and expects to doubled in size to 40 people by the end of the according toSkeeter Lieberum, senior partner with TBO. The firm has officexs in Houston andSan Antonio, but most of the new hirew will be based in the Alampo City, Lieberum says. TBO currently has 12 employees in theAlamio City.
“We’ve got a mix of people with experiencwe inIT security, tourism, manufacturinvg and much more,” Lieberum says. “It is hard to find a compan that has all those things to the depth thatwe have. We have the abilith to play in allthos sectors.” Lieberum, who spent 24 yearss in the Air Force and 12 years with Hollans & Davis, says TBO has an more experienced group of consultantds working for it than is common in the Lieberum came to San Antonio to support Hollane & Davis’ San Antonio offic as it worked with San Antonio-based insurance giangt . “USAA had us out there when they started lookin at changing their Lieberum says.
That change eventually includes opening up their services to military men and womenb in theenlisted ranks. The company’z services had previously been limited to The San Antonio office ofHolland & Davis soon expanded and begann working with retail, banking, real financial services and oil firms, including , , and . Now most of thos clients and several others, including , are working with the TBO spin-offc group. TBO operates under a fee-based system. Lieberumm declined to reveal revenue figures forthe company.
Alan Markert, senior consultant with TBO, had a 30-year career with H-E-B where he served in various executive positions over including vice president of finance and vice president ofinformatio technology. He says he joined TBO because the company has similar values to his and becausew he enjoys working withthe people. “W e all have different skills and experiencezs that tend to complementone another,” Markerft says. “Very often someone will have the uniqu skill set that fits just what you need when workintg witha client.” Lieberum notes that TBO has severap retired military people on staffd as well as former executivesw with and USAA.
Most everyone comes in with years ofcorporatwe experience, he says. “One of our objectivesd is to bring in the right expertf at theright time,” Lieberum says. in itself, saves the customers a lot of timeand ” The pace of changse in the business world has only increaser with the proliferation of technology and it is becoming harder to resist the call for change, Lieberum Companies today are lookinb for tangible benefits that can be gainerd from making changes, Markert They are looking for ways to reduce TBO goes in and helps theirr accounting departments and information technology (IT) departments to better manag these changes so that they align with theid core business functions and don’t do more harm than “When times get tough, companies play a more defensive and if they are not careful, they can get entrenchedr in that mode and neglect to plan for succesxs over the long haul,” Markert says.
For example, if a compan responds to a downturn by sharply reducingy staff and laying off a lot of peopls with experienceand training, then when things it has to spend a lot of time and money rehiringf and retraining people to get back to where they TBO’s objective is to help companiex make reductions more efficiently, so they don’t keep findingv themselves in that position. “There are partds of the economy that are stilkpulling back, but I’m starting to see guarded optimism from some Liebrum says. “It is better than I expectex it would be at this To take advantage ofthese times, companies need direction on which changes to make and when, he says.
“Thw logo on our business cards is a triangl because that is the Greek symbolfor change,” Lieberunm says. “That is who we are. We are agents for change.”