Managing Your Firm Through a Crisis and Into the Future

The means and methods of creating a sustainable practice during and after the COVID-19 crisis
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Webinar On-Demand
Sponsored by BQE Software, Inc.
Presented by Steven Burns, FAIA

Learning Objectives:

  1. Based on your current state of affairs identify and itemize what your firm needs to do, not only to get through the crisis, but to come out of it stronger and more resilient.
  2. Familiarize yourself with the best practices on dealing with your clients, employees, finances and business practices and processes.
  3. Create the business plan of the future by examining the unique opportunities presented by COVID-19.
  4. Evaluate your firm's current technology and learn the requirement for technology that will sustain your team's need for productivity, scalability and flexibility into future decades.

Credits:

AIA
1 AIA LU/Elective
IACET
0.1 IACET CEU*
AIBD
1 AIBD P-CE
AAA
AAA 1 Structured Learning Hour
AANB
This course can be self-reported to the AANB, as per their CE Guidelines
AAPEI
AAPEI 1 Structured Learning Hour
MAA
MAA 1 Structured Learning Hour
NLAA
This course can be self-reported to the NLAA.
NSAA
This course can be self-reported to the NSAA
NWTAA
NWTAA 1 Structured Learning Hour
OAA
OAA 1 Learning Hour
SAA
SAA 1 Hour of Core Learning
 
This course can be self-reported to the AIBC, as per their CE Guidelines.
As an IACET Accredited Provider, BNP Media offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard.
This course is approved as a Structured Course
This course can be self-reported to the AANB, as per their CE Guidelines
Approved for structured learning
Approved for Core Learning
This course can be self-reported to the NLAA
Course may qualify for Learning Hours with NWTAA
Course eligible for OAA Learning Hours
This course is approved as a core course
This course can be self-reported for Learning Units to the Architectural Institute of British Columbia
This test is no longer available for credit

The economy was thriving, unemployment was at its lowest in recorded history, and your firm had enough work to keep you busy for months if not years. In a matter of weeks, it all dissipated.

This webinar will look at our current state of affairs and what your firm needs to do, not only to get through the crisis, but to come out of it stronger and more resilient.

We will look at best practices to deal with your clients, employees, finances and business practices and processes. We will discuss how to create the business plan of the future by examining the unique opportunities presented by COVID-19 and reflecting on your firm’s values and culture.

Finally, your firm can secure financial stability regardless of whether you return to a co-located environment, expand into a remote workforce or remodel your firm into a distributed workforce. We will examine the significance that an integrated technology system will play in your firm’s ability to ride-out any imaginable crises and ensure your firm is properly positioned to thrive into the future.

Managing Firm


Burns

Steven Burns, FAIA is a licensed architect and a member of the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows. For more than 30 years, Steve has been involved in every aspect of the architectural profession. After seven years in the Chicago, London and Berlin offices of SOM, he founded his own firm, Burns + Beyerl Architects, in Chicago in 1993. Fourteen years later, Steve sold his 17-person architectural firm to work full time on the startup he launched to create the office and project management software solution ArchiOffice. In 2009, he merged his business with BQE Software, where he is now the chief creative officer. Steve earned his Master of Architecture (with distinction) from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University. He is a thought leader who has delivered presentations at architectural and engineering conferences around the world on topics related to business and project management, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies. Steve is passionate about ultra-endurance cycling. He is also a partner with Social Venture Partners in Los Angeles, an organization that helps innovative nonprofits change the landscape for social justice.

 

BQE Software BQE CORE is the award-winning firm management software, created by architects for architects, that project-based firms trust to run their operations for better project outcomes, and more profitable futures. Their fully integrated suite of intuitive tools with 24/7/365 support provides back-office automation to power front-office insights, making firm management more agile, informed, and data-driven. Learn more at www.bqe.com.

 

Originally published in June 2020

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