Category BQE

  • 10 KPIs Your Architecture Firm Needs to Track for Maximum Project Profitability

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    Credit: 1 AIA LU Sponsored by: BQE Software Projects are the core of your architecture firm. Not only do they generate profits, but they are also at the center of your firm’s business operations. As such, doing everything you can to ensure their success should be one of your top priorities. Key performance indicators (KPIs) […]

  • The Seven Pillars of Highly Successful Architecture Firms

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    Credit: 1 AIA LU Sponsored by: BQE Software Culled from experiences working with more than 3,000 AE firms over 25 years, this session will examine the seven common denominators of every successful firm. Success comes in many flavors. For some, it’s money; for others, it is peer recognition, awards, or fame; for most of us, […]

  • Cash is King: Managing Cash Flow for Growth and Profit

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    Credit: 1 AIA LU Sponsored by: BQE Software The average days to collect cash in the AEC industry is between 60 to 120 days. In this training, we will examine the complete project lifecycle to understand how cashflow can be increased or decreased. Participants will gain valuable tips to improve cashflow by improving timesheet practices, […]

  • How to Make 2023 Your Most Profitable Year Yet

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    As the end of the year approaches, firms look inward and consider what they should do differently to make the coming year more profitable and aspirational. In this webinar, Steven Burns, FAIA, and Enoch Sears, AIA, will take their combined 60 years of experience in AE firm operations and distill it into 45 minutes of […]

  • Is Your Architecture Firm Prepared for the AI Revolution?

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    Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing industries across the board. By utilizing tons of data, the computer system can perform behaviors associated with human intelligence, such as speech recognition, decision-making, and learning. While enterprise adoption of AI has grown 270% over the past four years, architects have been slow to adopt the new technology. Some fear […]

  • Your Employees: The Most Important Asset You’re Neglecting

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    Business leaders often declare that employees are their most important assets. But few employers truly define what that means in their workplace. Employer commitment to employees and their success is one of the top 5 drivers of happiness at work, according to the 2019 MetLife UAE Employee Benefits Study. When employees are supported, they’re more […]

  • The Truth Behind Utilization, Realization and Profitability

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    Many firms focus on their staff’s utilization rate and concentrate every working moment toward a client’s project. While this seems to make sense, the actual path towards greater profitability has very little to do with this simple metric. An analogy would be your physical health. While it’s fine to take yourself to the gym every […]

  • If Your Firm is So Successful, Where is All the Money?

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    If your firm takes pride in its ability to create sustainable architecture, you owe it to yourself and your clients to make your firm equally sustainable. Join us in this exciting webinar presented by Steven Burns, FAIA, Chief Creative Officer at BQE Software. With more than 20 years of experience managing a successful architectural practice […]