Sponsored by ACEC, AIA and Turner

Adaptive Leadership is a unique three-day focus-on-the-future participative seminar with the latest in A/E/C leadership techniques and built environment business forecasts. Join the vanguards of the industry to explore concepts and test suppositions against surprising new trends.

Quickly gain new insights and techniques derived from thought leaders in the design industry. Take a hard look at the economic and social issues you confront. Engage in targeted scenario planning (for issues of concern to you and your firm), plus enjoy an outdoor team learning activity with expert coaching for all activities... and more.

December 6 (2:30 p.m. start)
1.0 Welcome, Introductions and Orientation

2.0 State of the A/E/C Industry

• Economic Census
• McGraw Hill/Dodge
• ACEC 2006-2007 Design & Construction Industry Trends Survey
• What Others Are Saying About Our Industry

Evening Reception and Dinner

December 7 WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE INDUSTRY?
3.0 Challenges for the Built Environment

• Global Competition
• New Delivery and Contracting Methods
• Workforce Shortage
• Sustainability and Green Development

4.0 What If Tried-And-True Business Models Do Not Meet Changing Demands?

• The Traditional Model and What Happened to One Company that Failed Due to Lack of Change
• The Gap Between What 21st Century Clients Want and What the Industry is Providing
• Calculating Risk versus Reward as Market Demands Change
• How Do You Change the Playing Field (or the Rules)?
• How Would You Have Led the Company in Trouble Out of the Woods?

5.0 Understanding Complex Systems

• Examples of Living Systems
• Equilibrium and Disequilibrium Effects on Firms
• Systems Thinking for the A/E/C Industry
• The Value of Straight Talk and Continuous Innovation

6.0 New Ways to Create Value

• What to Offer a Traditional Client that You Do Not Already Offer
• Case Example

7.0 Team-Based Activities

December 8 THE ADAPTIVE FIRM - CHANGING AND DEVIATING
8.0 Financial Assets and Knowledge Assets for 360 Degree Firm Assessment

• Key Ratios in the Financial World
• Metrics for Knowledge Assets
• Putting it All Together in a Novel Form of Balanced Scorecard

9.0 Leading to Stimulate Innovation and Creativity

• Structure, Culture and Techniques to Stimulate Innovation
• Why Design and Construction are Engines of Growth
• Periodically, Innovation Trumps Production

10.0 Power and Influence Of and With Stakeholders

• Credibility Markers within the Firm
• Influencing Key Groups/Clients/Owners
• How to Influence in the Digital Age

11.0 Toward a Healthy and Sustainable Firm and Industry

• Implementing and Sustaining a Learning Organization
• Looking into the Future: Tea Leaves, Demographics and Data

12.0 Test Probable Scenarios: One- Year and Five-Year Horizons

• Example - Role of Technology and Energy as a Transitional Strategy
• Example - Sustainable Infrastructure and Who Really Pays/Benefits
• Example - Natural Disaster + Bird Flu - Is Our Firm Prepared for Single or Double Jeopardy?
• Example -- Geopolitics and Geo-Business - World-Wide Supply and Demand Affect Local Practice

13.0 Future Markets and Emerging Trends

• Short List of Key Factors
• Group Decision Making--Where Should We Place Our Emphasis?

14.0 Become an A/E/C Futurist to Anticipate Change for Competitive Advantage

This focus-on-the-future summit will feature engaging ideas from leading A/E/C industry futurists, who want you to be forewarned and forearmed for sweeping changes that will inevitably be thrust upon facility and infrastructure practitioners by global economic shifts and environmental fluctuations. This highly charged 2.5- day summit will prepare participants to handle the next one-, three- and ten-year cycles.

Registration Fee:
EARLY BIRD (before 11/17) ACEC or AIA Member: $895; Nonmember: $1095
Late Registration (on or after 11/18) Member: $995; Nonmember: $1195

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