Displaying episodes 31 - 60 of 82 in total
Snohetta: Collective Intuition & Operations (w/ Elaine Molinar, Michelle Delk)
In the workplace, collaboration is the glue that holds a company together. But getting your employees to function as a cohesive unit is a unique challenge, especially ...
Rossmann Architecture Inc: Success Stories (w/ Shane Balcom)
Today’s business landscape calls for new and disruptive ways of doing things. You wouldn’t typically think of placing a software professional at the helm of an archite...
Colloqate Design: Success Stories (w/ Bryan C. Lee Jr.)
When the focal point of your work is design justice, your processes look a bit different than the average design firm. For one thing, processes need to be simultaneous...
HOPEWORKSDESIGN: The Value of Investing in Performance Marketing for Your Practice (w/ Hope Trory)
Does this sound familiar? You need to bring in more clients to your practice to increase your revenue, but you don’t know if the money and time you spend on marketing ...
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM): Operationalizing Business Development (w/ Iben Falconer)
If you’re a doer-seller, you’re probably more comfortable “doing” than “selling.” Nobody goes to school to become an engineer, a designer, or an architect because they...
Lake|Flato Architects: How to Leverage Synergies at the Intersection of Sustainability, Design Technology and IT (w/ Scott Lelieur, Dan Stine)
If you want your business to run efficiently, you have to give your employees access to the proper tools and technology so they can get the job done. But it can be a c...
Slack Technologies / Practice of Architecture: Building & Running a Hybrid Practice (w/ Evelyn Lee)
If your firm is considering going hybrid, it’s a much bigger decision than deciding how many hours per week you’ll ask staff to spend in the office. It also means over...
HKS Architects: JEDI in Practice (w/ Yiselle Santos)
With the surging demand for diversity in the workplace, many companies are scrambling to figure out how to increase—and manage—gender and ethnic diversity within their...
Charrette Venture Group: Financial Management Basics for Small Firms (w/ Rena M. Klein)
Financial management isn’t just standard accounting. It also involves looking at the big picture of your financial performance to make smart business decisions. When y...
KatalystDI: Organizing Work Towards Adaptive Organizations (w/ Libo Li)
The world is changing fast. In order for your practice to survive, you’ll have to change along with it. New technologies and new ways of communicating can be scary, bu...
Talentstar: Marketing for Talent (w/ Marjanne Pearson, Linda Wallack)
Finding and hiring top talent is a challenge for any company, especially in today’s competitive hiring environment. To give your business the best shot at attracting a...
Workshop/APD: Success Stories (w/ Thomas Julliard Zoli)
How can you finally say goodbye to an unwieldy spreadsheet system and streamline your operation from start to finish? At Workshop/APD, the team develops strategic and ...
Traverse Landscape Architects: Success Stories (w/ Arthur Eddy, Marie Eddy)
Architects don’t receive a lot of training on business and finance. And staff members with business experience don’t often understand the design side. So, how do these...
Verdant Studio: Success Stories (w/ Jessica Hester, Natasha Brand)
How do you operate a national practice that encompasses art, architecture, historical preservation, and construction documents all under one roof? That’s the task of V...
Krueck Sexton Partners: Success Stories (w/ Tom Jacobs)
When an architecture firm is just starting out, almost anything goes in the quest to get up and running. But once you’re more established, two things need to become fo...
Talentstar: The Future of Practice Operations (w/ Marjanne Pearson)
When you think of practice operations, you may think of the tools, information systems, and resources that have to be managed on a daily basis. But Marjanne Pearson, f...
RIOS: Silver Linings, Audacity and Joy - The New Practice Playbook (w/ Jessamyn Davis, Andy Lantz)
Have you considered a unique firm structure? RIOS’ practice structure might just take the cake, as it is unique at every level. Not only do they have two CEOs, but the...
Adjaye Associates, Decanthropy: How To Build Communities As An Architect (w/ Farida Abu-Bakare, Ian Rolston)
Now more than ever there’s an opportunity to design with purpose, and with a goal of equity so that spaces are built for everyone. But in order to do that, we need to ...
Olson Kundig: How To Blend The Art Of Business With Architecture (w/ "HP" Hemanshu Parwani)
In a world of seven billion people and counting, innovative design has become more important than ever. From residential to transportation to healthcare, how can we cr...
Kontextur, Subtilitas: How To Share Architectural Knowledge (w/ Katharina Benjamin, Jeff Kaplon)
Social media has allowed us to share our ideas on just about every subject. But free-flowing discourse on architecture styles and design careers hasn’t always been ava...
Michael Hsu Office of Architecture: How To Grow From 17 To 71 In 7 Years (w/ Michael Hsu, Maija Kreishman)
Growing a firm by a dozen employees each year can sound daunting. But the truth is that when you look at growth as a puzzle rooted in organizational structure, you can...
Talentstar: How To Empower Talent In Architecture (w/ Marjanne Pearson)
How do you achieve successful growth as an architecture firm? It all comes down to having the right people on your team. Today, there are small 20-person firms that ar...
Madame Architect: How To Inspire A Generation Of Architects (w/ Julia Gamolina)
What do business strategists and editor-in-chiefs have in common? They both require you to build relationships. Lots of them. As the director of strategy and partnersh...
KPF: How to Manage a BIM Practice (w/ Veronica Quintero and Alex Wilson)
Most architecture firms are grappling with the question of how technology and data fit into their practice. For many firms, the solution is a self-contained design tec...
Bjarke Ingels Group: How to Project-Manage Architecture (w/ Flora Bao)
In the past decade, the number of small architecture firms has been shrinking while the number of large firms has increased. The reason? A steep rise in the complexity...
Snow Kreilich Architects: How to Run Operations at a Mid-size Firm (w/ Trevor Bullen and Sarah Hughes)
Life at a busy firm can be a mad scramble. When partners and owners start to wear too many hats, key information can slip through the cracks. Over time, the value of t...
Trahan Architects: How to Collaborate Across Fields (w/ Brad McWhirter and Margaret Jankowsky)
If you want your firm to become known for a clear ethos, aesthetic, and vision, then you need to fold that identity into everything you do. From the clients and contra...
Studio NYL: How to Build Your Technical Team (w/ Amy Baker of Amy Baker Architect and Chris O'Hara)
The world of architecture is getting more interesting—and complicated—by the day. Sometimes the best way to tackle your projects is to loop in specialists and consulta...
NS Builders: How to Learn From Construction (w/ Nick Schiffer)
To design and construct the best building possible, you need to be intentional every step of the way. From honing your toolkit of best practices to creating SOPs to co...
Alloy Development: How to Build as an Architect-led Developer in NYC (w/ Alexandra Militano)
Real estate developers often keep their eye on the bottom line—for them, it’s all about how a property can make money. Architects, meanwhile, focus on design, but rare...