Over the next decade Business Intelligence tools are set to rapidly change the corporate world. As real estate professionals, we should all understand the new technologies that are coming and how they can make positive changes to the way we work and make decisions. Here is your chance to find out more and make a difference to your organisation. Continue Reading

The Economist reports 55 percent of organizations have policies to reduce energy consumption. Yet, a mere 19 percent have made any measurable progress against their goals.

Real estate and facility costs rank in the four highest costs of business within most organizations and continue to rise. At the same time, senior executives have experienced reduced operating budgets and must attain greater levels of return on their managed assets. Continue Reading

Thanks to Nancy Sanquist of Manhattan Software, Inc. iwmsnews.com is able to publish their latest whitepaper: The New Workplace Imperative: A Call to Action for Business, the Environment and People. To download the full-length paper, please visit http://usa.manhattansoftware.com/mobility.

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The new workplace imperative has been evolving over the last fifteen years. Work became untethered to a specific location and began to be performed in all sorts of places outside of the traditional office building. The business drivers include employees’ new expectations of the workplace, mature technology, embracement of sustainable practices for real estate, an increase in global competition and, most recently, the economic recession. The concept of mobility as a work style in which a person can choose to use multiple spaces and places to do their work is a well established, ever-evolving work practice.

Initially known as telework or telecommuting, morphing into “work from home,” and continuing to evolve under such terms as “alternative” or “distributed workplace strategies,” this work practice is part of an accelerating series of advances in tools and technologies that add worker choice to the workplace. In some cases, however, it is not about choice. If you are part of a global project team, you do not go back to the office to make that midnight call to Australia, but do it from the comfort of your home, hotel or local café – wherever you happen to be. Work is where people are – not where the office is located.

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If you want to continue reading, please download the Executive Summary or visit: http://usa.manhattansoftware.com/mobility

Questions regarding this whitepaper can be directed to Manhattan Software, Inc.

A substantial innovation in business management over the last decade is the innovation of business performance management (BPM), which combines performance metrics and analysis with disciplined process design and management. Workplace performance management (WPM) is a subset of BPM and is applied to drive business improvements within real estate and facility assets and operations, which rank in the four highest costs of business within most organizations.

This whitepaper shows the benefits received and minimum requirements a Workplace Performance Management system should provide. Learn how WPM delivers advanced financial, operational, portfolio, customer and environmental performance analytics, which measure and evaluate the value contribution of real estate to the organization. This whitepaper discusses:

1. The need for a decision-support platform of facility portfolio analysis and performance management to align real estate and facility management operations with business strategy
2. Critical success factors for a the implementation of a workplace performance management system
3. Typical costs savings and return on investment derived from a workplace performance management system

If you have ever asked “Why implement workplace performance management?”, we think you will benefit from this whitepaper.

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Today, the retail industry faces daunting challenges as a result of current economic conditions and conflicting market influences. There has been a steady trend over the last five years by progressive retailers to move away from point solutions such as market analysis and planning tools, lease management applications, project management tools, and stand alone maintenance systems toward lifecycle management functionality that is the hallmark of store lifecycle management (SLM) systems. Continue Reading

Today on IWMSnews.com we publish a white paper that was written by Mr Barkley of the the Barkley Advisory Group, LLC. Mr. Barkley possesses a Bachelors degree in Economics and Finance from Drake University and a Masters in Corporate Real Estate (MCR) designation from CoreNet Global. He is on the faculty for CoreNet Global Learning and is the author of numerous articles appearing in a variety of trade journals. The article was commissioned by Planon, Inc. Continue Reading

Today we publish a very interesting whitepaper by Michael Swanstrom (CEO, Business Integration Group). This article first appeared in the January / February 2008 issue of CoreNet Global’s LEADER magazine.

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This week we will publish some very interesting white papers which I received from George Bouris SLCR, MCR who is a Principal with Deloitte Consulting.

While real estate and facilities typically represent a company’s second or third largest spend, they’re rarely taken into consideration as key components of strategic decision-making. The challenge is to gain a full understanding of the extent and cost of all owned and leased properties and incorporate this information into business strategy and planning.

At Deloitte, we have service offerings designed to help companies in their efforts to understand and improve all aspects of their physical infrastructure—Real Estate, Facilities Operations, Workplace Strategy, and Capital Asset Strategy—under our Capital & Real Estate Transformation services umbrella. We are convinced that a full appreciation of the direct impact of real estate holdings and facilities on expenses, investments, operating margins, productivity, and go-forward strategies can have a dramatic and positive effect on a company’s performance. Continue Reading