Financial Management and Profitability

08/31/10 From the Ground Up: Growing a Thriving Design Firm You can read a library of management titles, but success largely boils down to internalizing and implementing five key practices. James Follett
08/31/10 Design Goes Global Over the next several decades, billions of square feet of new construction and renovations will take place worldwide. Is international practice right for your firm? Scott Simpson
08/31/10 Sharpening the Ax: Preparing for Negotiations It seems counterintuitive, but negotiation preparation can bring a substantially higher return on investment than actual project work does. So it pays — literally — to give the process its due. Steven J. Isaacs and Karen L. Newcombe
08/31/10 Aging in Tandem: America and its Infrastructure Lack of stewardship over our public works has dealt the current generation a huge challenge. Without imagination and conviction in addressing this problem, the viability of the United States is threatened. Barbara Golter Heller
06/25/10 The Value of Authenticity Common businesses practices such as performance appraisals reinforce the cultural standard to conform rather than differ. But conformity is not what leaders are made of. Louis L. Marines
05/11/09 Creative Project Compensation Helping clients understand the value your firm brings to a project is the first step in calibrating the compensation your firm earns. If there’s a value proposition, then there’s a metric to quantify it. All you have to do is get creative. Scott Simpson
05/11/09 Roundtable: Tools of Today Are Opportunities for Tomorrow DesignIntelligence invited several of the profession’s leaders to participate in a virtual roundtable to share their thoughts on issues of technology.
01/02/09 1 Design Econometric Forecast: Strategic Optimism Along with Hard Realities 16 predictions for 2009
10/06/08 1 Is Construction Productivity Really Declining? Or are Census of Business definitions just making it look that way? Charles M. Eastman and Rafael Sacks
02/15/08 Driving Out Failure Costs Effective cost control covers two distinct realms: opportunity cost and failure cost. While opportunity cost retards growth, failure cost is an anchor that drags down the firm. Scott Simpson

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