A/E Organization Charts

(ISBN 1-932372-12-1, August 2004, 164 pgs., 8x10, $195)

Is it a chore to develop your firm’s organization structure, create organization charts, or figure out who reports to whom? Whatever your reason is, if you need to create firm-wide, department, office, or project team organization charts or decide how your firm’s organization should be laid out, A/E Organization Charts can help. This new resource contains nearly 150 unique organization charts in use by actual architecture, consulting engineering, interiors, and environmental firms. With this book, you’ll get an inside look at how other firms just like yours organize themselves. Use these charts as a basis for creating your own firm’s charts—you’ll never have to start another organization chart from scratch again!

With A/E Organization Charts, you’ll get:

• Corporate organization charts for other firms of your size and type. Firm leaders will get an inside look at how their peers organize themselves, while HR staffers will never have to create another organization chart from scratch again!
• Department organization charts for firms offering services just like your firm does and working in market sectors just like your own. Should you include marketing and support staff in each division or department? These staff could make or break the success of each individual group—find out what other firms are doing and make sure you’re making a smart decision on what to do in your own firm.
• Project team organization charts—including project managers, designers, technicians, and other staffers. If you’re ever required to submit an organization chart with a proposal, you need these charts! Find out what your competitors’ charts look like, see how they organize project team staff, and give your firm the best chance possible when it comes time for the client to award the project contract!
• Office organization charts for headquarters and branch offices of all sizes. Should branch offices have dedicated support staff for marketing, IT, human resources, and other tasks? These charts will show you which support staff—as well as which senior staff—are typically located in different size offices. Is it necessary to add these staff to your firm’s branch offices? Find out what other firms just like yours are doing!

This book includes a comprehensive index of all the charts, organized by firm type and size. At one glance, you’ll know exactly where to go for corporate, department, project team, and office organization charts for a firm just like yours!

Is it a chore to develop your firm’s organization structure, create organization charts, or figure out who reports to whom? Whatever your reason is, if you need to create firm-wide, department, office, or project team organization charts or decide how your firm’s organization should be laid out, A/E Organization Charts can help. This new resource contains nearly 150 unique organization charts in use by actual architecture, consulting engineering, interiors, and environmental firms. With this book, you’ll get an inside look at how other firms just like yours organize themselves. Use these charts as a basis for creating your own firm’s charts—you’ll never have to start another organization chart from scratch again!

Are you a president, CEO, COO, or other top firm leader? No firm leader can ignore the importance of organization structure, nor can you deny that an inefficient setup can have serious effects on your firm’s bottom line. With A/E Organization Charts, you’ll get specific examples from other firms of your type and size so you can compare yourself to your peers.

Are you a human resources director, manager, or staffer? Creating organization charts for your firm, a department, or an office can take up a lot of your time. But with this new book, you’ll be able to copy the format of the charts of other firms just like yours. Find out who reports to whom and see where operations and support staff reside in relation to design and technical staff. Stop wasting time and energy making charts from scratch—these examples will help you create charts in no time!

Are you a project manager or studio team leader? How do other firms put together teams for projects? Do project managers have design and technical staff directly reporting to them? Where do project managers typically reside in their firms’ structure? A/E Organization Charts will give you samples of corporate charts for you to see whether other firms are using studios or other structures and project team charts to help you get into the details of possible reporting structures for your project team members.

Are you a marketing director, manager, or coordinator? Some of your clients may want to see a corporate, department, or project team organization chart so they can get the specifics on who’s working on their project and who the managers are. With A/E Organization Charts, you’ll be able to get specific examples of charts that other firms have used with their proposals—you can base your own charts on theirs, instead of starting from scratch! In addition, if your firm does work for the federal government, you’ll actually be required to submit organization charts with your proposals once SF330 replaces SF254/255, which is due to happen later this year. This book will help!

We guarantee you that you’ll find this collection of organization charts from other firms just like your own useful. Don’t waste time, energy, and money trying to re-invent the wheel when hundreds of firms before you have already done the work for you. In this one book, you’ll get all the examples of organization charts that you’ll ever need!

We’re so certain that you’ll find A/E Organization Charts to be an invaluable resource that we’re offering a money-back guarantee to any unsatisfied customer. If this book doesn’t help you and your firm, simply send it back for a full and immediate refund—no questions asked!

Why should your firm care about organization structure?

Organization structure provides the framework that will keep your firm organized. Your firm’s employees—and sometimes your clients—need to know who heads up which departments and who reports to whom so projects don’t get postponed and proposals aren’t overlooked. There are many types of organization structures, and you shouldn’t settle for the standard just because it’s easy. In the long run, it’s a lot easier to make the transition to the best-suited structure than to lose valuable time and money maintaining the status quo.

This book will help you get organized—fast! Make sure your firm is arranged in the most efficient way possible so you can make the most out of the work you do and your bottom line!

Contents:

Foreword • Corporate organization charts • Department organization charts • Project team organization charts • Office organization charts • Index of charts by firm type and size