RCMS Offers Free White Paper on Managing Design Firms in Turbulent Times
(Atlanta, GA)RCMS, a trusted services partner to the building design and construction community, has published a white paper entitled “The Business of Architecture: 10 Strategies for Managing Your Firm in Uncertain Economic Conditions”.
An essential guide for Architects, Principal’s and firm management, this executive brief covers the key findings and commonalities of how successful firms plan on managing their future as the current economic climate plays out. These findings and correlating strategies are a must read for executives and firms looking to stay competitive and get ahead in the business of building design.
The 10 Strategies glean insights into topics such as:
- Focusing on core business competency
- Understanding the success-drivers to a firm’s cost & operations
- Aligning vendors with costs and service delivery
- Shifting capital intense IT deployments to “on-demand” services
- Understanding prospects by project backlog and building type
- Partnering for scale and specialty
- Attempting to better-understand unresponsive clients
- Benchmarking and tracking core productivity metrics
- Crafting compensation plans to drive firm goals
- Ranking, stacking and cross-training employees
Download your free copy at RCMS’s website
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