If there’s one thing that a hotel owner can do to best protect and guide a project it’s this – nail down the roles and responsibilities of your project team members before your next project begins. By doing this, everyone (including yourself) has a clear understanding of what exactly is expected from whom and when and which budget it’s coming out of.
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One of the biggest problem areas for both hotel owners and designers is determining and defining project scope. It deeply impacts both entities’ budgets, and it is one of the most difficult to nail down. When I get an RFP, I have to be sure I really have a handle on the scope. Read on to see project scope examples and how I do it.
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There is a lot of talk and a lot of media coverage about the idea of a “story” for a project. It’s the hot topic everyone clamors to in search of finding the new, new thing. But from my perspective, what if the more important thing isn’t the “story” at all? What if the more important thing is a Project Philosophy? Let me show you how a unique guiding philosophy can allow each and every project (storied or not), to run more smoothly and to become exactly what everyone envisions.
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While it’s a daily occurrence for many of us to open an industry trade journal and look at hospitality design and how it is evolving from the guest perspective, we rarely pause long enough to consider how design is evolving from the business-of-design perspective which, as the COO and CFO of my company, is the space I live in most of the time. As I look back at 20 years of interviewing design candidates for Clear on Black, our boutique-sized firm, I see some fairly radical change in how we’re doing the business of design.
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Learn the unlikely basis for the bespoke hotel interior design firm, Clear on Black's journey into Lean Project Delivery (LPD) methods.
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Lean Project Process and Construction Documents. Two of the key requirements for getting lean project methods to work and be successful as applied to resort hotel interior design.
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Why Design Group Carl Ross is now Clear on Black
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