The ABEO Group drives change for Project Managers, Inc.
Charlotte, NC (July 13, 2010) – Project Managers, Inc. announced it has created a special service division aptly named The ABEO Group — abeo is a Latin word meaning ‘to change’ or ‘to exit or leave’. Given our economic environment, companies are operating with resources at capacity, but hesitant to hire full time employees. This business climate has increased the need for consultants and also for innovation. The ABEO Group was launched to support clients through planning, managing, executing, and sustaining business transformation in their organization.
Other business models foster bringing in a large team for an entire duration of a change initiative. The ABEO Group supplies the entire change team, but resources are only brought in as needed to implement major change initiatives and business transformations.
The ABEO Group offers clients an ROI Tracker tool to show the return on engaging ABEO resources versus doing it themselves.
“We recognized that organizations must drive change even in a recession. They were choosing to use internal resources and not recognizing it was costing more, not less money,” said Karen McIsaac, managing director of The ABEO Group. “The internal resources were already overbooked and may have lacked required skills, schedules slipped dramatically and time equals money. The ABEO Group was formed to partner with clients and their resources to support all business transformations – mergers, product launches, compliance mandates, enterprise technology replacements and process improvements. Our business model provides clients with a method for tracking tangible savings as a result of hiring us.”
McIsaac founded Project Managers, Inc. in 1998, after gaining 15 years of real-world project management experience ranging from the design and execution of a transition program office to the rescue of a high-risk turnaround for a top ten ranked financial institution. Through it all she recognized a significant negative cost facing businesses – poor project execution – and set about creating the firm to help companies mitigate that risk.
Twelve years later, Project Managers, Inc. launched The ABEO Group and includes a host of clients that include the Fortune 500, government agencies and non-profit organizations who have sought the firms’ counsel on a myriad of change events from the rebranding of KinderMourn to the development of state-of-the-art sales tools for Lowe’s Companies, Inc. Along the way, McIsaac herself has achieved recognition, receiving both Entrepreneur of the Year (Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, 2004) and the Women in Business Award (Charlotte Business Journal, 2005) and appearing as a speaker at numerous industry conferences to discuss the importance of managing change. For more about The ABEO Group and the cycle of change, visit www.WeManageChange.com.
