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The Smart Tradeoff
iProjects is for design professionals who want to move “up the food chain” – to convincingly and authoritatively demonstrate the leadership abilities of the practice.
To realise this goal, however, means an end to “business as usual”, and demands a significantly greater discipline from the design practice. We call it the “Smart Tradeoff”.
Most design firms focus on specific project types, and develop expertise in them. Then they re-invent the round wheel on project after project in applying this expertise.
The Smart Tradeoff short-circuits the least desirable aspects of round wheel re-invention, and powerfully augments the best. The Smart Tradeoff means that senior staff must invest some precious hours up front to translate the firm’s corporate memory into the firm-specific, discipline-specific, project type- specific iProjects templates for all project processes.
The payoffs for this investment are huge:
- Process clarity for everybody, including clients, other consultants, subconsultants and project teams.
- Consequential sharp reductions in rework.
- Consequential significant reduction in risk through consistent application of best practices.
- Sustainable differentiation of your service offers.
- Increased staff satisfaction and productivity through knowing exactly what is expected of them.
- Realistic project budgets, with an end to scope creep, that can actually predict project profits.
- Increased authority in the project team.
- A very real opportunity to achieve or exceed practice profit goals.
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for each. The completed Plan can be used to create the project budget, or to confirm the cost of completing each of the Tasks and Stages in the project budget.