Peter Piven, Bradford Perkins

Architect's Essentials of Starting, Assessing and Transitioning a Design Firm (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Written by two leading experts in the field this essential volumeoffers a step-by-step guide to understanding and evaluating thegoals, risks and the rewards of starting a firm. * Covers the basics of firm organisation, personnel requirements,legal considerations, fee setting, marketing issues and theessentials of strategic and business plans * Addresses how to get started including how to create your firstbusiness plan, evaluate initial needs and costs, create a budgetand a produce a list of action items to get started * This volume is practical, applied, concise, portable,affordable and user-friendly

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780471456551
• Artikelnr.: 38211024

Autorenporträt

PETER PIVEN, FAIA, is a principal consultant of The Coxe Group,Inc., in Philadelphia, the oldest and largest multidisciplinaryfirm providing marketing and management consultation to designprofessionals. Author of Architect's Essentials of OwnershipTransition (Wiley), he guest lectures at the University ofPennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts, the Harvard GraduateSchool of Design, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. BRADFORD PERKINS, FAIA, OAA, AICP, is the founding principal ofPerkins Eastman Architects, PC, a twenty-year-old architecture,planning, and interior design firm based in New York. He is afrequent lecturer on design and design-firm management topics, aswell as the coauthor of Building Type Basics for Elementary andSecondary Schools (Wiley) and many industry articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.
PART 1: STARTING A DESIGN FIRM.
Introduction.
Deciding to "Go on Your Own".
Marketing and Sales.
Financial Management.
Negotiating Fees and Contracts.
Organization and Personnel.
Legal and Ethical Issues.
Resources and Support.
Strategic and Business Plans.
Planning for Excellences.
Potential Cuases of Failure.
Launching your Firm.
Appendix A. Study Guide.
Appendix B. Charting Your Course.
PART 2: OWNERSHIP TRANSITION.
Introduction.
Ownership Transition Options.
Determining Candidate Selection Criteria and Communicating Founders?
Expectations.
Valuing the Firm: How Much is it Worth?
Making the Purchase Affordable: Ownership Transfer Mechanisms.
Design the Ownership Transition Program.
Getting the Ownership Transition Program Started.
Documenting the Ownership Transition Program.
Choosing the Form of Entity.
Developing Leadership in the Firm.
Preparing for Future Transition.
Glossary.
Bibliography.