Architects' Accelerator Blog
Conversations with Architecture Firm Leaders: Human Capital Management Challenges - Acquiring Talent
By: David Clarke Published on: 08/06/2025Human Capital Management is the Acquiring, Maintaining, Nurturing and Strengthening of the people who actually execute the projects in your firm. It's the projects that generate the revenue that is your business. This conversation focuses on acquiring people.
Measure of Competency - Weighted Experience
By: David Clarke Published on: 06/06/2025There's an emphasis on what we actually do over other things that we can do. It starts even in education, and continues when you get into practice. We're essentially weighting the experience that you're expected to get and be competent in saying this is more important than this by adding more hours.
NCARB Competency Standard 16 Understand foundational business principles to operate a practice
By: David Clarke Published on: 01/06/2025You'll see on social media people complaining about how architects don't get education in business, and then they go into business and they fail. And what are they missing? Well, it's just an introduction to basic business foundational concepts, and the 16th competency standard is understand foundational business principles to operate a practice.
NCARB Competency Standard 15 Understand ethical & professional standards for architectural practice
By: David Clarke Published on: 01/06/2025What are ethical and professional standards? These are things that ultimately take 10 years or more to learn, maybe your lifetime, to learn through various experiences that you have along the way.
