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“Reinventing S.O.A.: SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE” HOME Ask Seminar 7 Continue Answer Discover Share your knowledge, Help others and be Expert The Best Answers chosen by the community Open Questions Resolved Questions Featured Edgardo L. Mallari, UAP Chapter President, Rizal-Taytay He lives an active lifestyle of all-terrain biking, jogging, playing badminton, and basketball. He finds time to relax doing landscape photography and sketching. He works as a pilgrim, qualified only by his yearning for design. Currently co-managing a private architectural practice since professional architect’s registration in 2003. The said firm worked on various good class residential developments, commercial offices, and interior fit-outs/ furniture design as an architect as well as a builder. The architect is willing to dedicate his architectural competence in other diversified fields. “Seedbed of Innovation” The rapid pace of technological change is the cyclone that is sweeping the 21st century. Industries have no choice but to go with the flow or be swept away. This phenomenon accelerated globalization and the economic transition from traditional to service economy. The evolution to a knowledge-based, service-oriented economy is raising the importance of human capital in enterprises. Due to the growth in quantity of information available, the globalization of companies and their spheres of activity, increasing competition for work and maturation of many industry sectors, and increasing client sophistication and expectations, the issue of knowledge management has assumed greater importance in recent times. The Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry face these challenges today. As lead design professionals in the AEC industry, architects have to be in the forefront of creativity and innovation to maintain competitive advantage. Equipped with the right knowledge management strategy, Filipino architects will be able to face the upcoming challenges and harvest the benefits of knowledge sharing. 64 | About Us | Contact | Blog | Resources | Help | Terms | Privacy 37th UAP National Convention © 2011