7 Reasons Why PMs Should Do Business Development
There are many reasons why Project Managers should be given the responsibility for business development, and provided the training, coaching, and mentoring to know how to do it. ..
Read MorePM Tip: Five Ways to Put Quality Into Your Project
The essence of quality management can be boiled down to three simple concepts: say what you’re going to do, do what you said you would do and be able to show you did it. Thus,..
Read More10 Actions to Take with an Under-Performing Business Unit
“Business units” are a way of segmenting your architecture/ engineering practice; typically by discipline and/or by project type. Commonly, business units are also “profit..
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know About QM Systems
Very, very few U.S. design-for-construction organizations have any real concept of the purpose, strength, and flexibility of the international quality standard, or how to use it..
Read MoreQC/QA Thinking: SO Last Century!
Except for a half-dozen or so firms in Detroit, U.S. architecture/engineering (A/E) firms escaped the revolution in QM thinking that changed the way design firms approached..
Read MoreAre You A Difficult Character?
I discovered some fascinating research, the subject of an article in an issue of ARCHITECT, the journal of the American Institute of Architects. Amanda Kolson Hurley discusses..
Read MoreHow to Minimize Rework to Raise Your Profits
Most design firms see themselves as unable to break through the downward fee pressure created by clients and their agents. They pound their heads on the commoditization wall, and..
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