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Firms: Is Small Beautiful but Big Better?
"Those professions that do not change will render themselves obsolete," "Those that are able to transform themselves - and I mean 'transform' - will thrive and prosper." Dr Frank Shaw, foresight director at the Centre for Future Studies.
Last week at the American Institute's "Knowledge Leadership Assembly" (KLA), the Small Firm Roundtable group told their story of feeling neglected by AIA, of taking matters into their own hands and have stunning success in gathering both members and financial support for their group. The vast majority of AIA member firms are small, especially under the Roundtable's definition: "if you wear more than one hat in your firm, then you are small." (21% of architects are self employed, three times the national average for all professions, 25% of all architecture firms are sole practitioners and 75% have less than 50 employees). I can't even count the hats I wear, and never was it questioned that my firm was small, but is this prevailing smallness of architecture firms a plus or a sign of times gone by? |
US Merger Mania picking up again |
The week when KLA gathered in Minneapolis the latest acquisition by architecture/engineering..... Read full article -------------------------------------------
Klaus Philipsen FAIA
Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
Baltimore MD
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Firms: Is Small Beautiful but Big Better?
"Those professions that do not change will render themselves obsolete," "Those that are able to transform themselves - and I mean 'transform' - will thrive and prosper." Dr Frank Shaw, foresight director at the Centre for Future Studies.
Last week at the American Institute's "Knowledge Leadership Assembly" (KLA), the Small Firm Roundtable group told their story of feeling neglected by AIA, of taking matters into their own hands and have stunning success in gathering both members and financial support for their group. The vast majority of AIA member firms are small, especially under the Roundtable's definition: "if you wear more than one hat in your firm, then you are small." (21% of architects are self employed, three times the national average for all professions, 25% of all architecture firms are sole practitioners and 75% have less than 50 employees). I can't even count the hats I wear, and never was it questioned that my firm was small, but is this prevailing smallness of architecture firms a plus or a sign of times gone by? |
US Merger Mania picking up again |
The week when KLA gathered in Minneapolis the latest acquisition by architecture/engineering Firms: Is Small Beautiful but Big Better?
"Those professions that do not change will render themselves obsolete," "Those that are able to transform themselves - and I mean 'transform' - will thrive and prosper." Dr Frank Shaw, foresight director at the Centre for Future Studies.
Last week at the American Institute's "Knowledge Leadership Assembly" (KLA), the Small Firm Roundtable group told their story of feeling neglected by AIA, of taking matters into their own hands and have stunning success in gathering both members and financial support for their group. The vast majority of AIA member firms are small, especially under the Roundtable's definition: "if you wear more than one hat in your firm, then you are small." (21% of architects are self employed, three times the national average for all professions, 25% of all architecture firms are sole practitioners and 75% have less than 50 employees). I can't even count the hats I wear, and never was it questioned that my firm was small, but is this prevailing smallness of architecture firms a plus or a sign of times gone by? |
US Merger Mania picking up again |
The week when KLA gathered in Minneapolis the latest acquisition by architecture/engineering