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What’s Driving Your Firm’s Valuation? What Matters and Why It Matters

What’s Driving Your Firm’s Valuation? What Matters and Why It Matters

All engineering firm owners know that keeping an eye on operating profit and working capital is essential to increasing cash flow available to shareholders, and that increased cash flow raises…

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Qualifiers and COAs: Understanding Connections, Mitigating Risks

Qualifiers and COAs: Understanding Connections, Mitigating Risks

The relationship between individual P.E. licenses and engineering firm licenses (COAs) is not widely understood. As a result, firms are often blindsided by regulatory fallout following a change in the…

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Why ESOPs Work So Well at Engineering Firms

Why ESOPs Work So Well at Engineering Firms

Did you know there is more ESOP ownership in engineering firms than just about any other industry in the US? Ever wonder why? Is it because ESOPs …? Maintain an…

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Working in a Consulting Organization: A Beginner's Guide to Achieving Success

Working in a Consulting Organization: A Beginner’s Guide to Achieving Success

There’s considerable guidance available on how to become an independent consultant, but very little on what’s needed to be successful in a professional consulting organization. And these two experiences, while…

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Data is the New Oil – Managing Privacy When Data Has Become the World’s Most Valuable Resource

Data is the New Oil – Managing Privacy When Data Has Become the World’s Most Valuable Resource

Engineering firms have legal, regulatory, contractual, and business needs for protecting and keeping confidential the personally identifiable information (“PII”) of their clients, employees, and other individuals. The unauthorized access to,…

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Maximizing Your Business Development ROI

Maximizing Your Business Development ROI

Many engineering professionals are overwhelmed at the thought of having to conduct business development (BD) on top of project responsibilities, staff mentoring, and other key functions. Join Rich Friedman to…

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Avoiding the Glaze and the Yawns - Proposals and Presentations that Close the Deal

Avoiding the Glaze and the Yawns – Proposals and Presentations that Close the Deal

You hear it all the time. You need to make your proposal more interesting. Your presentation needs to stand out from the competition. A cookie-cutter pitch will only make the…

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Steel Tariffs and Marketplace Conditions

Tariffs and Trade Issues: Managing Design Impacts

With clients and staff troubled about the impact of tariffs and international trade—particularly regarding steel—it’s critical that project teams and designers are able to distinguish what’s true and what’s not.…

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Contracting for Professional Services Part 2: Insurance Requirements

Contracting for Professional Services Part 2: Insurance Requirements

Professional services contracts come with their own unique challenges and strategies. Which is why we’re presenting a special three-part series specifically focused on the bottom-line of engineering professional services contracts. …

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Contracting for Professional Services Part 1: Contract Review Checklist

Contracting for Professional Services Part 1: Contract Review Checklist

Professional services contracts come with their own unique challenges and strategies. Which is why we’re presenting a special three-part series specifically focused on the bottom-line of engineering professional services contracts. …

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