Total Resource Management and ProOrbis Partner to Deliver Integrated Asset Management Solutions

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Total Resource Management, Inc. (TRM) and ProOrbis, LLC (ProOrbis) today announced the launch of Integrated Asset Management(TM), a suite of consulting and software solutions, designed to meet the most complex asset management challenges. These offerings, in development for the past year, are focused on combining the established technology and consulting methods of Total Resource Management with the strategic framework and analytic techniques developed by ProOrbis. The result is a newly defined category that offers integrated asset management solutions for the core classes of organizational assets: physical, technology and human capital.

TRM's Integrated Asset Management (IAM) offering will combine both companies' experience and expertise to provide a better, more comprehensive solution for customers interested in a complete asset management perspective. "Our clients recognize the value of our enterprise architecture and change management methods. We now can enable our clients to configure, integrate and manage their physical, technology and human capital assets. For the first time, the value of organizational investments can be truly measured and optimized", said TRM CEO Ray Brisbane. Mr. Brisbane explained that joining the expertise from the two organizations will redefine lifecycle asset management.

The people of Total Resource Management are known for their ability to understand and meet the challenges associated with managing physical assets in some of the most complex environments around the world. They have achieved an extraordinary success rate with their technology applications and continue to defy system implementation failure rates.

ProOrbis is a consulting firm specializing in the development and application of advanced management concepts and best known for its leading strategy and analytics for valuing both tangible and intangible assets -- with a focus on human capital. ProOrbis uses these tools to reposition large, complex clients with new product design or portfolio strategies, integrated business process designs and complete redesigns of their asset management systems. This includes human capital asset management (HCAM(R)), physical capital asset management (PCAM(TM)) and technology capital asset management (TCAM(TM)) systems, plus management dashboards that enable better decision- making.

"The value generated by organizational assets -- especially intangible assets -- is not easily measured by most organizations, even though it accounts for a very large part of their asset investments" explains Jeanne DiFrancesco, Principal at ProOrbis. The ProOrbis(R) Framework focuses on how to measure the value of the investments in both tangible and intangible assets to inform better management decisions.

This ability to take organizational investments out of a 'cost' paradigm and put them in an ROI framework results in management teams having the ability to predict the business impact of investing (and divesting) decisions. "The insight the ProOrbis(R) Framework brings to traditional supply chain and maintenance best practices is phenomenal", reports Rich MacInnes, Chief Strategy Officer for TRM and author of Strategic MRO and the Lean Enterprise Memory Jogger. "Adding this value oriented paradigm allows us to take the leading business management techniques in the world to a new level. We feel very confident that we have combined the world's leading thinking with the ability to execute in the real world, " added MacInnes.

About: Total Resource Management: Total Resource Management, Inc. (TRM) delivers strategic consulting and information technology solutions in an Integrated Asset Management framework. TRM helps organizations improve the management and performance of their enterprise assets, both tangible (facilities, infrastructure, production and logistics) and intangible (technology, business processes and human capital). Over the past decade, the company has supported over 200 clients with asset management technology expertise, professional services and productivity enhancement products that result in significant improvements to their business operations. Its headquarters are located in Alexandria, Virginia and supporting offices are located across the U.S. Total Resource Management's Advanced Technology Centers are located in Virginia, California, Washington, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Hawaii. More information is found at http://www.trmnet.com/.

About ProOrbis: ProOrbis, LLC is a leading innovator of management theory and applications that set the standard for managing the value and investments of an enterprise to make the most of its potential. The ProOrbis(R) Method is a unique combination of the ProOrbis(R) Framework paradigm shifting theories, project management, analytic tools, change facilitation and executive development in Applications that produce transformative, real-world results. Although this approach addresses the performance of all tangible and intangible organizational assets, the Method is particularly deep in managing human capital -- the most misunderstood and "under-worked" asset -- creating significant productivity improvement opportunities for most organizations, industries and countries.

Integrated Asset Management is a trademark of Total Resource Management, Inc.

ProOrbis and HCAM are registered trademarks of ProOrbis, LLC.

TCAM and PCAM are trademarks of ProOrbis, LLC.