Leading North-West building consultancy Anderton Gables appoints management consultant Kim Tasso to its Board as a Non-Executive Director from February of this year. Anderton Gables building consultancy, which has offices in Manchester and Preston, was established in autumn 2007 by business partners Jonathan Shaw and Andrew Whittle. Since then, Anderton Read More
At last week’s “Managing and marketing a profitable surveyors’ practice” workshop in Glasgow, where the focus was on how to achieve profitable growth, the delegates identified six insights into managing a surveyors’ practice 1. Produce a (short) strategic business plan Some firms had a business plan that needed to be Read More
During the summer I worked with The Lawyer magazine analysing the real estate costs in law firms. Real estate costs and a wide range of other financial and head count data for over a 100 of the UK’s 200 leading law firms were analysed to produce the first detailed report Read More
I saw a demonstration of PitchPoint software - a new pitch development system - by Andy Driskell of Iphelion. Module to make pitch data capture easy The demonstration started with the administration part of the system where fee-earners or business development team are tasked with a “to do” list to go Read More
Last week I was joined by over 20 surveyors at the first presentation on this new MBL course on “Managing and marketing a profitable surveyors’ practice”. Change management is a key topic. During the day we covered a lot of material including: business planning, strategy development, management functions, market analysis, Read More
