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10/01/01 9.11: The Fallout Continues Design and Construction forums and publications have been asking this question, seeking to better understand not if the terrorist attacks on America will affect their practices but how. Kerry Harding
09/01/01 No Place to Hide As market forces change, only the flexible firms will survive. James P. Cramer
09/01/01 Dare to Compare: Improving Your Practice Through Benchmarking What we found is helping us improve both the business side of our practice and the quality of our design work. It also is energizing our shareholders to become engaged in the process of making our firm the best it can be. Ken L. Ross, Jr.
09/01/01 9.11: In Disaster’s Wake The sudden destruction of the nation’s financial center will wreak havoc on the nation’s design firms in a number of ways, many yet to be discovered. What actions can firms take not o better prepare themselves should they face a disruption caused by Kerry Harding
09/01/01 The Phantom Menace: Employee Embezzlement and the Bottom Line A growing trend of demand-driven honesty? The experts point out potential opportunities and steps to put in place to foil the efforts of employee dishonesty. Kerry Harding
08/01/01 Strategic Alliance Brings On-Line Project Management to I.D. “As an added benefit to ASID commercial designers, the new relationship between ASID and DesignArchitecture.com also involves the development of an important tool to measure the impact of redesign on worker productivity in office spaces.”
08/01/01 Developing an On-Line Project Management Training Program A new online project management training program is being developed by URS Corporation, a leading engineering and program and construction management firm, and KeepSmart.com, a company that develops interactive, on-line training programs.
08/01/01 Kickstarting a New Team Whether they are intra-office, inter-office, inter-diciplinary or multi-diciplinary in nature, effective teams must ramp up quickly. Here are some points from the pro’s. Ian Cook
08/01/01 Developing Emotionally Intelligent Teams After reading this insightful article, you may want to rethink how your project teams are formed and managed. Anne Riches
08/01/01 The Ownership Mirage This first in a two-part series on ownership transition highlights the driving forces behind the quest for ownership and how alternative solutions may be better for all parties concerned. Kerry Harding

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