Very often, people start their entrepreneurial journey with great enthusiasm and expectations of making a difference. Soon, when reality catches up with bills piling up on one hand and client expectations of delivery, on the other hand, going up. In between these two, daily struggles to find time to manage and get quality delivery from the project team. Very often, they end up doing a job that doesn’t meet their expectations nor a guaranteed income and result in working for their clients, employees, and the financial institutions (Banks), except for themselves.
The most realistic strategy to build any great consulting firm is to be customer-centric, a good core team to add values and to continuously focus on client needs. The challenge is when the organization starts expanding, it becomes a burden to keep on adding resources to the core team who are in alignment with the company’s vision and values. So most of the organizations either end up making compromises with the company’s vision and values or consciously choose to stay small because of the cost involved in the expansion of the business and eventually missing out on a larger portfolio of works/revenue. It has always been a challenge for most of the small to medium Architectural and Engineering consulting firms to attract and retain good talent who takes ownership of their projects and are in alignment with the vision.
It seems that one is on a never-ending treadmill, leaving a very short time to pursue the dream of making a difference. Also, one of the major expenses is manpower cost, apart from infrastructure cost. When you hear the phrase OUTSOURCING, it sounds like a great idea full of merits and seems like an easy gateway to heaven, but very soon the fear of the unknown takes over regarding the possibilities of failure. Moreover, the world is littered with examples of failures of those who ventured and have given up.
This article is an attempt to present how QDC India, can help you achieve a WIN-WIN-WIN proposition.
- WIN for your client and your dream to make a difference.
- WIN for you and your core team, not only achieve professional excellence but also financial rewards.
- WIN for us in partnering with you to help you achieve your goals and at the same time make financial gains.
With the tremendous strides made in technology, today presents a great opportunity for those who are willing to adapt and use it effectively. What COVID-19 is teaching us is to adopt creative ways to overcome the difficult situation and our own beliefs that are stopping us from using the technology to work remotely anywhere in the world. What we enumerate below is some of the workflows, adopted by us to achieve a mutually beneficial relationship.
It is an erroneous belief that the sub-consultant can start working to your expectations and standards right from day one. Just like how the organization makes efforts in onboarding a new employee, a similar effort is also required with a sub-consultant to make them aligned with your expectations and standards required to keep the end client happy and avoid the anxiety of failure. As a sub-consultant, we make sure to put our effort and time in the initial stages for a better understanding of your expectations and the project standards. QDC India is conversant with many International codes and standards like BS, Euro, and American. We stress getting sample design calculations and drawings for typical projects/elements from the client to help us to speed up the process of orienting towards your way of working.
It does take some time in the beginning, but the returns are manifold over the longer run. QDC India is specialized in BIM and uses Revit as its BIM authoring tool. With tools like BIM 360, real-time coordination becomes very easy given that all are working on a single model. Given today’s technology like Skype, GoToMeeting, WebEx, Microsoft Teams, and various cloud sharing tools available at extremely low cost makes coordination happens effectively. It is very easy and comfortable for us to work as your extended in-house team and gives the comfort to your core team that any changes due to design/client requirements/site conditions, etc., are managed in real-time.QDC India and its management have a proven track record of partnering with clients in the US / UK / Europe and delivering projects successfully. We have a very robust and technically strong team and established processes that enable us to align with your requirements, deliver detailed designs and drawings to your expectations.
Our entire client management focus, engineering excellence, and strong QA / QC process help us to save you and your core team from expending energy and effort on regular design engineering. It will allow you to concentrate on serving your existing clients better and win more new clients, it helps you to grow bigger and better in all respects, without compromising on your vision and values. QDC India, with its cost advantages for your firm as compared to adding in house engineering resources, also, gives you the added benefit of adding to your bottom line and help you to grow the top line by winning more projects without increasing your cost structure and the added hassle of finding and retaining good talent. If you need to know more about how QDC India can optimize the costs and enable you and your team to focus on your clients and on your vision of making a difference, please get in touch.