Do you ever notice how many opportunities you miss after the fact? Questions that are raised after the final decision are made are the opportunities that were left on the table. Issues raised that aren’t addressed indicate that there was work left undone. That person from the meeting that asks what your company ACTUALLY does…
Author: dmusic604
Going your own direction and spiting those out front
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where what is best for you and your budget is the opposite for what is good for the business or the business unit. Signing a 10 year lease for a new business unit with uncertain revenue or growth would be a good example. The longer term lease looks…
Lean Real Estate
You don’t often hear Lean specialists existing in the real estate world. A lean real estate environment has not yet made its way into common thinking. However, I’d like to throw a couple of starting points of thinking lean about real estate: Better alignment of real estate against business goals. Use technology to enable more…
SOPA/PIPA and the online world
Out of curiosity, if you have an online presence and haven’t expressed an opinion on the SOPA/PIPA issue yet you are missing an excellent opportunity to both educate yourself on the topic and see where your own audience lies. It is a highly public, highly divisive issue that impacts anyone who works or plays digitally….
Geography matters
With the growing globalization movement throughout business, I’ve heard a theme recently that it doesn’t really matter where your offices are. They could be in India or China or Brazil and still service US customers. While true, it misses the spirit of globalization. Moving to lower costs can be a valid business move if there…
A tech protest begins today…
I’m not sure if anyone has been following the SOPA/PIPA issue that also follows this blog, but it is possibly the most important issue of the day for many in technology, media, copyright related fields, or even relies on the internet (most of us). Regardless of your position on this bill there is enough angst…
Collaboration with people you don’t know
One of the most powerful drivers of change is new ideas. Without new ideas we would stagnate and get stuck where we are. It’s not always a bad thing to stay the same, but our nature is not to be the same everyday for 80 years. Groupthink has become a bad word in many communities…
Balancing the solution with education
As a service provider of real estate services, I work with a lot of clients that are in the middle of problems they have never encountered and may never encounter again. But I also work with a lot of clients that are in the middle of a problem that is going to be coming up…
Disrupting my life….change is good.
I received a Nook for Christmas. This is surprising because anyone who knows me has heard me go on and on about how the actual books will always be better than a screen. I’ve been saying it for a couple of years. It wasn’t a secret. Apparently I don’t talk to my Aunt much because…
What are your real costs?
Real estate is a cost center for most organizations. Every square foot you occupy (whether you lease or own) is an expense that you can’t spend on R&D or sales or marketing. But without that real estate you couldn’t do those things anyway. There’s a balance there that must be identified and maintained. So yes,…