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Align compensation program with ownership vision

Aligning Compensation and Ownership Transition Strategies

The workforce is changing. Younger employees view their careers differently than their predecessors and that includes incentives and compensation.Incentive programs need to support the firm’s overall compensation philosophy, but how…

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Are You Fighting Fires Instead of Managing Your Employees

Are You Fighting Fires Instead of Managing Your Employees?

No more high fiving after making the shortlist. Your technical ability, previous success, and relationships got you to the top, but the same is true of your competitors. Someone’s going…

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Prepare for doing business in 2020 & beyond

Adapt or Die: “Mind Shifts” Your Firm Must Make to Compete Successfully by 2020

Finding new clients and winning more work is more challenging than ever for A/E firms. The successful ones adapt to shifting conditions of feast or famine business environments to welcoming…

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Preparing for nist sp 8oo-171

Are You Ready to Comply with the New DFARS Cyber Rule?

On December 31, 2017, certain defense contractors with nonfederal systems that contain controlled unclassified information must implement NIST SP 800-171 if their contracts are subject to DFARS 252.204-7012. While this…

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Stories sell

Attracting Clients: How to Market Your Firm with Every Conversation

To stay competitive, every staffer should make marketing your firm their business. They can start by treating every conversation they may have as a potential business opportunity. That means tossing…

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Avoiding Pitfalls in Contracts

Avoiding Pitfalls in Contracts

We have taken both common themes as well as current crazes in owner drafted contracts, and spelled them out in our power point. The discussion will center on two different…

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Intelligent Infrastructure, Interactive Buildings, & Smart Cities

Intelligent Infrastructure, Interactive Buildings, & Smart Cities: The Role of Engineering in the Age of Conscious Cities

Due to the uncanny timing and convergence of market conditions, technology innovation, social wants and government needs a Smart Cities market is emerging on a global scale that dwarfs any…

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Before signing a design services contract

Before You Sign the Design Services Contract

You’ve seen it before. Firm “X” is selected for a job that they’re more than qualified for. But somewhere between winning the project and signing the dotted the line, they…

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Insight vs. Relational Selling

Insight vs. Relational Selling – What Should You Be Doing?

For the last 7-8 years, “”insight selling”” has been at the heart of most new B2B selling and marketing thinking. As the story goes, cold calls are dead and most…

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Targeting you markets

Being “OK” at Marketing is NOT OK!

The consulting engineering industry is saturated with technically competent providers. Every day pressure builds on us to provide additional services and lower prices. We’re either competing on price, expertise, specializing…

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