Virtual Interior Design Consulting for Luxury Homes in the USA

Some of the CEOs from the "old world" are being selected to run these "new world" businesses. Leaving the glitzy trappings of a Fortune 500 corporation at the age of 46, Rick Inatome, CEO of an Internet education company, ZapMe Corporation, felt like a stranger in a new place. Senior writer D. M. Osborne of Inc. visited Inatome for the March 2000 cover story Getting It." Inatome spent his first weeks at ZapMe, located in San Ramon, California, seated

on a box in a six-by- six-foot cubicle, instead of working in an executive suite with a private washroom. One day a noisy young Web designer waved his hand and asked the CEO So what do you do here in a hapless mannerFor the interior designer, these possibilities have important ramifications Design experts must remain current when new regulations are offered

rejected, then brought back with a different twist as the old ones become antiquated Attending the design industry conferences is no longer sufficient, but attending the various conferences aimed for new economy businesses is becoming more and more vital. Likewise, one often finds Fast Company, Wired, and Red Herring publications on the desks of interior designers

Employed for companies Working with various fledgling

e-business organizations, Diane Schroeder, Design Director at GHK, has designed their facilities to reflect their culture and new identity. She symbolize a rising high technology culture, youthful candidates in great demand, and high risk with great reward. . Business plans call for environments that draw in and keep the top-notch applicants.The emphasis is

on leadership toward success rather than on trying to transform the teams or individuals. Not taken into account is traditional office space. E-commerce visioning imagines office tools including social settings, sleeping and showering rooms, lighting drama, and the sense that work is societal. With the change into the creative business environment, we are,

nevertheless, following the educational environment. One wonders what follows after dot.com analyzes the variations: "practices." She firmly feels that working with outsourced providers who maintain current with new trends in the market and provide industry knowledge from dealing with a range of businesses tackling a different platform of problems results in best

Practices Best practices she believes provide a strong

argument on their own for outsourcing.Baxter Healthcare has long seen the advantages of outsourcing. To concentrate on their main business and let others to handle tasks best, it and Allegiance Healthcare have outsourced ties with each other They want to be the most value-adding low-cost supplier available. From administrative support and travel assistance to real

estate management and facility design, these outsourced agreements span clerical services toAlthough most of the recent outsourcing trend did not change the traditional design services provided by interior design firms (delivery of conventional renovation or new construction projects), it did increase the demand for particular auxiliary services including CAFM services

relocation management, and churn work. Originally offered by internal people, these services now have to be outsourced. But the major change that impacted interior design companies was the corporate wish and expectation to outsource their facility planning and design services to a service provider who would really sit on-site the client. This produced a

Committed workforce that matched in every aspect corporate

personnel, including security badges, computer system access, allotted parking places, and consistent hours. Design manager Naoto Oka of the World Bank's Facilities Management Division says simply, "you provide services to clients on-site, but your paycheck comes from your company." Some interior companies object to this concept and refuse to help with on-site

services. Other companies welcome it as a chance to get near to their clients and personally witness what happens on both sides of the line. Being an outsourced on-site supplier, he thinks, most importantly is "the ability to become part of the culture of the company, of your customer." Both rewarding and demanding is the journey from vendor status to fully

committed team member. On sometimes, I had to keep business secrets from the GHK company. At times I wanted to be a chameleon. Baskin finds great satisfaction in the chance to "go beyond the traditional architect's role to become a fullfledged business partner with the customer Of course, half in a consultant capacity including his six years on-site with Bank of

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Amesig Co-worker Kristen Drewkean interior designer and project manager who has spent more than 10 years onsite with Baxterent's awareness and support of the initiative, has also had similar experiences. You should be enabled to make decisions You have to be adaptable in ideas and approach. Having a facilities background as well as a design firm background she thinks on-site providers have an advantage if they have seen all sides of the business.

Drewke notes that the work encompasses a wide spectrum of skill and is rather energizing You name it, she says; we have done it. Soup to nuts is the phrase. I have discovered that rules and limitations travel. We have done everything from high-level strategic discussions with top management to graphics for Earth Day and golf trips. Being on-site has advantages as well as strategic benefits. These firm spart of the cultu outsourced agre firmly feels