DEFINE SCOPE
We help our clients define and articulate their project scope by:
- Defining project roles and responsibilities
- Identifying decision making process and authority
- Early coordination with other project participants, i.e. building owner, owner’s representative, architect, general contractor, subcontractors.
- Developing a task outline and project schedule
- Establishing budget parameters
Knowledge Transfer
To design with purpose necessitates knowledge transfer. What we learn from you:- Your unique business drivers
- How your business or industry is changing
- Your mission and values
- Your culture
- What success looks like to you
- Workspace trends and research
- Best practices
- Change management
- Relevant failures or missed opportunities
- Cost Drivers
- Value managemnet strategies
Organization Evaluation
To rapidly and effectively help our clients better understand their needs our expert team uses an escalation analysis process. We start with:
Interviews with Sr. Executives and/or Management
Onsite Observation
Development of Space Matrices
Assessment and Current Physical Facilities
Evaluation of Current Space Plan and Existing Furniture Inventory
From there we can determine your organization’s needs and future projections. Those additional steps may include:
Employee Surveys
Discovery and Planning Workshops
Site Tours
The point is that one size doesn’t fit all. We help you better understand you, by finding out those things you may not recognize or know how to ask yourself or your employees.
Programming
A critical step in our process is helping our clients and their internal teams define project goals, objectives and outcomes. We do this through a process called programming. Programming includes the following steps:
- Classifying both broad and disparate project drivers
- Narrow and ranking drivers into specific, actionable objectives
These specific objectives are the “ingredients” that makeup the secret sauce that defines project success for your organization. Commons drivers addressed in programming are: functional requirements and adjacencies, growth patterns and rates, environmental performance (noise, privacy, mobility), employee retention, and types and quantities of spaces.