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The Business Case for Looking after your People

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Yesterday I was able to attend the Constructing Excellence in Essex event at Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford. The event was entitled Better Skills for Better Business, you can see the flier for the event here, but I wanted to post today about Liz Lake and her attitude to staff. Liz Lake is a Landscape [...]

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What Good Architects Do – Subtlety and Process

Watch this video about Jonathan Ives, the industrial designer behind Apple’s success. Two things I think are interesting about it. Firstly how he describes the process of design and production, and how he stresses the subtlety of the result. ‘So many of the products we’re surrounded by, they want you to be very aware of [...]

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Why don’t we network with our relatives?

I’ve been enjoying reading Andy Lopata‘s new book, Recommended: How to Sell Through Networking and Referrals, in which he guides the reader through creating a referral culture through networking. I’m also learning a great deal from his video tips – and thought I would share one with you. In this video clip Andy describes how [...]

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What is a Social Business and six ways to become one

How do we measure our success in business development? It might be the knowledge that we are the go-to firm for our area of expertise. It might be publication in a national press. It might be invitations to speak to key client audiences. It might even be an increase in new enquiries from outside our [...]

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Don’t fondle the Hammer

Shiny new gadgets are very exciting aren’t they. We all like to have a try. Usually it is a few months later when we realise we haven’t worked out what the real value of them is. By which time everyone has moved on to something else and we can’t get support to use them properly. [...]

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Architects: A Businesslike Practice vs Design Quality – how to get both

Is it possible to be successful in architecture and make money? Of course it is. Here are some thoughts about how. The recent RIBA Building Futures report “A Future for Architects?” included a paragraph about the prevalent view that architects are not good at or willing to be business people. These views were put forward [...]

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The Future for Architects – Have another Look

I’ve been working myself up to review the RIBA Building Futures report ‘The Future for Architects’ for ten days since it was launched. For me, if writing a blog post takes that long it is usually because there is something bugging me, and there is. Lets start with the nitpicking. Firstly I thought – great, [...]

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Best Architecture Engineering and Construction Social Media Blog

It was announced at the ConstrucTALKs Be2camp event yesterday that Just Practising has won the title ‘Best AEC Social Media Blog’ in the inaugural Be2 Awards, the worlds first awards for social media in construction. It goes without saying I am really pleased about this, not least the huge number of messages which have been [...]

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UK Architects Practices increase but sizes shift – RIBA

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In September of 2009 there were 4.9% more RIBA Chartered Practices than at the same time in 2008, according to RIBA Director of Practice Adrian Dobson. Figures released by the RIBA show a change in distribution of practice size which has penalised one man bands and larger firms in favour of small and ‘micro’ firms [...]

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76% of Architects Practices are fewer than 10 people

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Here is a breakdown of the size of RIBA Chartered architects practices by size (no. of employees). It shows that over three quarters of the 2800 chartered architects practices in the UK have fewer than 10 staff, and more than half have fewer than five. Why is this important? Firstly it is interesting to consider [...]

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