Many organizations know what they should be doing and do everything in their power to do it. This means that there are oceans of spreadsheets and manual processes used to keep up with what needs to be done. The ideas are the right ones but the processes don’t exist to be efficient. As Process Editor-in-Chief…
10 Top Posts from the Past Year
I was trolling through the summaries of my most viewed posts from the last 365 days and felt a little nostalgic. So here, for your pleasure is the list: How not to please your customers….Dilbert kills RSS support. Dilbert, the source of a million office jokes, becomes one of its own by irritating fans and…
What is loyalty to a company today?
I’m a Gen Y who has been with my current company for 7+ years. Seems amazing that it is even possible if you read the popular articles about my generation. (Maybe they aren’t completely true?) This gives me a unique position to think about loyalty to an organization. I have many friends who have jumped…
6 questions you should ask about your service provider’s technology before making any decisions.
Is it proprietary or commercially available? There are only very rare exceptions when proprietary technology offers advantages. On the surface, proprietary software may give you some temporary price advantages but in the medium and long-term the disadvantages (and costs) can be significant. Commercial systems give you the ultimate in both on-going upgrades and future flexibility….
What is Intelligence in #CRE?
No, I’m not talking about brokers. I’m talking about everything from Business Intelligence, Market Intelligence, Location Intelligence, etc. Per Wikipedia: Intelligence has been defined in many different ways such as in terms of one’s capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning,emotional knowledge, memory, planning, and problem solving. I have a feeling we’re at peak Intelligence-as-a-buzzword territory. Take a look at the definition above…
Facebook + Oculus Rift is great for #CRE! I want to live in this future now.
The big news of the week is that Facebook has bought the Virtual Reality headset maker Oculus Rift. It’s a bit of a surprising move but many are saying it could turn out to be similar to when Google bought Android. There certainly seems to be possible synergies between a VR device and a company…
How to destroy your corporate security through bad policy design.
What are the biggest security risks at most corporations? Internal servers that hold confidential data. Passwords in the form of “password” or “123456”. Data hosted on 3rd party servers (the cloud). System connections that allow access to other systems. Email. What are some of the most common solutions to these problems? Force users to change…
Security is not something to fool yourself over. Don’t just pretend to be safe.
These days security is always front and center. It seems like every week brings us new news on how our government is spying on our communications, how hackers got into a new company and how supposedly private information is readily available through your search engine of choice. Never has more of our private information been…
How are Bitcoins similar to real estate?
At first glance, Bitcoins and real estate have very little in common. The first exists only in digital form and is invested in or exchanged for good and services. The second is physical properties that people occupy – sometimes they own, sometimes they rent, sometimes they dabble in a bit of both. However, there are…
From LinkedIn: What does a smart building look like to you? #CRE
Two responses that I saw so far for Smart Buildings: Reflective overview of the many definitions and facets of Sustainability (Profitability, Carbon, Comfort, etc). Anything that gets a building to fully leased. This, more than anything I’ve ever read, shows the issues with Smart Buildings. To some it is a social and cultural issue and…