Today we have a guest post of Larry Simpson with CRE3. He discusses the Workplace of the Future and its’ impact on the CRE strategy today. What is your organization spending on corporate real estate occupancy costs per employee? $1,000? $5,000? According to discussions at a recent meeting of the Carolinas CoreNet Global Chapter the [...]

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OSCRE (Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate), a non-profit organization driving the development and adoption of e-business standards, is pleased to launch its multilingual iForum www.OSCREiForum.org. It is powered by CREOpoint, the online meeting point exclusively for Commercial Real Estate decision makers worldwide.

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The following post was written for corporate real estate executives to relate the importance of information systems to succeed in their role managing their organization’s portfolio leased and owned facilities. By Larry Simpson, CRE3 Consulting Are you ready? More to the point, are your information systems ready?

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Boston, Massachusetts, June 17, 2010 – The recently issued memorandum by President Barack Obama to have federal agencies cut $3 billion out of federal real estate costs by 2012 will be made immeasurably easier by the implementation of Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) software, says IFMA Fellow Bruce K. Forbes, president and founder of the [...]

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Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS) are software solutions designed to optimize facility management and real estate performance of organizations. As even the acronym causes confusion, clarification is required. In this post I will discuss what everybody ought to know about IWMS.

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Lucernex expert and President Joe Valeri (see Joe’s management summary here) provides details of why Location is the key to Real Estate Technology. My last blog discussed the very loose definition of IWMS and how it tries to describe a wide array of very different vendors. In this blog I will discuss one type of [...]

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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 [...]

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