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01/02/09 1 Design Econometric Forecast: Strategic Optimism Along with Hard Realities 16 predictions for 2009
12/09/08 MBA: ‘Making Better Architecture’? A deeper understanding of the relationship between business management and architectural design can benefit any practice. Perhaps an MBA is in your future. Thomas Kerwin
10/15/08 How Deep? How Long? Managing in Turbulent Times Since the stock market’s all-time high in October 2007, Wall Street has seen $8.4 trillion of equity evaporate. Credit markets are in disarray. Individual retirement accounts and institutional endowments have taken a beating. It’s only a matter of time until this financial tsunami ripples through the design and construction industry.
10/07/08 Global Economy Will Impact All Firms, Some for the Better The changing global competitiveness and financial environment is unfolding dramatically, which will add further complexity into the realities of professional practice leadership.
10/06/08 Setting a Global Agenda These are interesting times for U.S. professional practices — at once stimulating and vexing. Results of the DesignIntelligence Multinational Design Firm Fee Survey tell a story of guarded optimism and prudent growth. James P. Cramer
10/01/08 HOK and Biomimicry Guild Form Alliance
09/18/08 New Book Illuminates Design's Potential One of the most highly anticipated new books among professional practice firms poses a compelling challenge to designers of every kind. “No one with an interest in the field can afford not to read it,” says legendary designer Milton Glaser.
08/22/08 Gauging Sustainability Efforts A new survey by DesignIntelligence and The Greenway Group quantifies the sustainability efforts of leading U.S. architecture and design firms.
08/11/08 Creativity, Leadership, and the New Green Standard Formerly in the lexicon of crunchy-granola types alone, words like “sustainability” now hold cachet. That’s because Americans are going green. And that’s a word design firms can relate to. James P. Cramer and Jane Gaboury
08/11/08 Attention: Performance Marker Ahead Data is beginning to trickle out regarding actual performance as a result of the steps being taken to reduce energy use in buildings. The numbers indicate a need to raise the bar on performance standards. RK Stewart

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