I’m Aarni Heiskanen, Managing Partner at AE Partners and Co-founder of Thinking Portfolio. I have a master’s degree in architecture, and I worked as an architect and architectural R&D manager for over a decade. Gradually, I grew more and more interested in innovative business development. I became an internet entrepreneur, and, later on, a certified management consultant (CMC). Today I’m a co-owne
r of AE Partners, a business development consultancy, and Thinking Business, a company delivering project portfolio management SaaS to over 15,000 users in more than 50 countries. I’ve consulted for architects, engineers, contractors, IT developers, and their clients. I have authored business books, including The Management Consulting Blueprint, and written articles for local and international publications, e.g. ISACA Journal and Global Construction Review. Companies in the AEC industry have one quality that makes them different from many other firms. They create our built environment, and their work endures over decades or centuries. In that sense they have a great responsibility to people and the environment. Construction requires money and creates wealth, but sometimes it also destroys them. Construction is an over USD 8 trillion market, and is expected to grow another 8 trillion by the year 2030. How profitable that growth will be, depends on the ability of the companies to develop their productivity. In many countries, the productivity of construction is poor and has not shown improvement over the years. I believe that there is a lot of business potential in AEC. Combining the traditional strengths of the industry with innovative ways of doing business can create awesome results. The Blog
AEC-Business.com is a blog for innovators and game-changers in the construction industry. The blog includes podcast episodes that are also available on iTunes. My goal is to share ideas, success stories, and tools and techniques that you can use to increase your company’s success through strategies, innovation, and development. Read what others have said about my blog. I’m constantly looking for innovative ideas and good stories that can benefit my readers. Please feel free to send me suggestions, and I’ll look into them.
