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In 1955 Dan Barge Jr., Bill Waggoner and Billy Sumner risked all they had to start a Nashville-based engineering business. This is the story of how that small venture survived, thrived, and grew into a 400-person professional services firm called Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, with twelve offices spread across the eastern half of the U.S. and clients such as Tennessee Eastman, Bridgestone, the U.S. Department of Energy, Gaylord and Jack Daniel's. It gives the story behind the partnership, explains the origins of its culture, and tells countless anecdotes about persistence and resourcefulness that, in the end, made the firm one of the most respected in its field in the South. It explains how...
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In Value Redesigned, Davy and Harris reveal a vivid landscape where innovative new models for professional practice are already beginning to flourish, showing firms avenues of escape from the vicious cycle of commoditization and low prestige that is epidemic within the architecture and engineering community. Aligned with the dynamics of the emerging knowledge-based economy, these new models of practice offer bold value propositions, combining new ways of creating value with innovative pricing strategies.
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