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Welcome to another installment of Design Under Influence—a show dedicated to helping architecture and design firms use technology as their competitive advantage.   People in business circles are buzzing about VDI services. In this episode, we’re going to unpack this as a potential solution to remote work.   Solving problems related to remote work is on the mind…

Hey there, welcome to another episode of Design Under Influence, a podcast that informs you how technology can be a competitive advantage for your business.  Today, we’re talking about a subject that is near and dear to all of us business owners and business leaders: My IT guy says: “We can’t do this.”   These are dreaded words, and ones…

Hello there—you’ve found your way to another episode of Design Under Influence!   This is Boris and Alex, here to give you as much information as we can to make technology your competitive advantage at your architecture, design, and engineering firm.   Improper use of technology is about as good as designed under the influence of drugs or alcohol, a…

Welcome to another episode of Design Under Influence!   This is Boris and Alex here, back to talk through ways that architecture, design, and engineering firms can use technology as a competitive advantage.   Boris is the founder of an IT company called ArchIT, and Alex is the VP of growth for the business.   Today we’re tackling the use of spreadsheets…

Welcome to Episode 2 of Under Influence Architecture and Design!   It’s Alex and Boris, your hosts here to help architecture and design engineering firms create their competitive advantage via technology.   We feel that the inability to utilize tech to its fullest advantage is like designing under the influence. This might be desirable in certain situations, but it’s…

Hey there, welcome to ‘Under Influence Architecture and Design.’   We’re your hosts—Alex and Borris.   We run a company called ArchIT. We help architecture design and engineering firms make technology their competitive advantage.   The concept of this series is to prove that companies who aren’t using the proper technology are basically designing while drunk.   Now we know what you might…

Your home internet connection is probably the biggest bottleneck when working from home. Let’s remember, the service providers designed their networks to optimize download speeds for streaming, and not upload speeds that allow you to share, video conference, and better work from home. Furthermore, most of the home internet services from AT&T and Comcast are…

As COVID-19 spreads, many schools and businesses are transitioning to “remote work” situations to avoid large gatherings of people.  Chances are that your firm is facing a work-from-home period, and if your business isn’t used to functioning outside of the office, you’re probably concerned about productivity levels.  For architects and engineers, the challenge is that…

One of the best things about modern technology is that it’s essentially as versatile as it is powerful. Your IT infrastructure can be anything you need it to be at any given moment as the possibilities are truly limitless. That can be an exceptionally exciting position for any creative endeavor like an architecture firm to…

At ArchIT, we work with many SMBs, architecture, design and engineering firms who are struggling under the weight of their old technology. The higher intensity an industry is, the less likely a business is to maintain its technology solutions. Unfortunately, this also causes problems for the business: without the right technology, it’s easy for your…