Christmas falls on a Wednesday this year. A very odd day for Christmas as it makes it much more difficult for people to get time off to travel to family. But for those that do get off you get a particularly long weekend, please enjoy it! I particularly enjoy Christmas because even more than New…
#PSA Please remember to use appropriate significant figures.
No one likes to see a cost of $11,126,342.43. Why are you showing it to the penny? Does it make or break the decision? Are you trying to show how exact you can be? Why are you showing the dollars? Same reason. Same thing for percentages. Unless you are dealing in something highly exact and…
A Marketing Philosophy You can Adopt Immediately
Most people I come across think of marketing as something they have to do. It should be better than the competition and explain what they do. I disagree. Often on both points (but on the first point it’s only because I’m an engineer who struggles making things look “marketed”). My definition of marketing is doing…
Organizational design and its parallels to the human body.
Seth Godin hits it again. This weekend he gave us a comparison of organizations to the human body. Most organizations are built around three anatomical concepts: Bone, muscle and soft tissue. The bones are the conceptual skeleton, the people who stand for something, who have been around, have a mission and don’t bend easily, even…
One-off transactions and projects grow in prominence but also in expectations – #CREFuture
The last three days I’ve focused on large account level trends for CRE. But the biggest change is going to be the increased prominence of one-off projects and decisions. Whether an organization outsources transactions or manages them internally there is going to be an increase in the importance of local delivery. Most brokers (all?) are…
Outsourcing trends continue to accelerate but not in expected ways – #CREFuture
Real estate outsourcing has been accelerating over the past five years. This is due in part to outsourcing continuing to be better perceived within organizations and the CRE outsource providers continuing to improve their services and capabilities. Outsourcing in CRE has can be as simple as a single function (transactions for example) or as complicated…
Organizations internally changing at a rapid pace – #CREFuture
In addition to corporate real estate groups being under a tremendous amount of pressure to coordinate across a wide variety of business areas, they must also deal with change at a rapid clip. There is no doubt that the last 5 years have caused a large amount of economic turmoil that has impacted business operations….
One service is not enough – the entire CRE world is interconnected – #CREFuture
The world of modern technology has resulted in an interesting side-effect: more people have a sophisticated view of the interconnected-ness of things. In CRE organizations across the world and industries there is a growing realization that they exist in the middle of everything their business does and that they are responsible for more than just…
Thinking to the future. Where is #CRE going in the next 3 years? – #CREFuture
CRE is changing. It’s taken longer than many thought but the winds of change keep blowing and they are finally reaching us. This isn’t going to be an examination of technology specifically but an examination of trends, desires, impacts and what it means to all of us who make a living in CRE. My examination…
#Sustainability and #cre have a rocky relationship. How do you approach it in your portfolio?
Even today many organizations see the crowing achievement in sustainability as LEED certification. LEED is certainly the big kid on the block and rightfully so. USGBC has done amazing things to push design mentalities and local codes to ever better positions. Even still it remains on the cutting edge of design and construction. But LEED…