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The mission of the AIA Small Firm Exchange (SFx) is to advance the mutual interests of architects practicing in small firms. The objectives of the AIA SFx are three-fold:

1. Advocate the value of small firms, the national SFx, and local SFx groups, both within the AIA and to the public.

2. Curate and disseminate the most pertinent resources and information, from the AIA & elsewhere, that benefit small firms.

3. Inform the AIA of current issues facing small firms and areas in which current resources/information are lacking.

Approximately 75% of all firms within the AIA are small firms (less than 10 employees), which equates to 14,459 small firms within the organization.

~26.8% = sole practitioners = 5,173

~33.5% = 1-5 employees = 6,459

~14.7% = 5-10 employees = 2,827

For context, small firms share of staff is 16.0% and share of billings is 12.0%

We need to find ways to leverage that size for collaboration and influence, just like the individual large firms do.

   

  

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Human Intelligence: Behavioral Science Research for Small Firms

  • 1.  Human Intelligence: Behavioral Science Research for Small Firms

    Posted 10-24-2023 09:20 AM

    The final AIA|DC SFx event of the year shifts focus to the value of Human Intelligence in improving our design process and results. Understanding human behavior and cognition is a major value-add to design, orienting design-thinking to the realities of the people who experience design. Research in the field has exploded in the last 15 years and is in use at an expanding list of firms in the U.S. and abroad.

    Likewise, there are ways of harvesting deeper insights into the needs, feelings, and aspirations of those we design for, capitalizing them pragmatically, incorporating them into design. In the process, there is the potential to increase client satisfaction, reduce design and design-revision hours, get faster design approvals from clients, increase repeat business, and, along the way, improve employee morale and profits.

    This is a virtual event and is free to AIA members thanks to our sponsors.  Register at the link below:

    https://www.aiadc.com/event/human-intelligence-behavioral-science-research-small-firms



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    Will Teass AIA
    Teass\Warren Architects
    Washington DC
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