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June 19, 2025

Creating a Real Estate Program [Part 3] – Crafting a business case from your forecasts

You now have the goals and framework of your program, along with several initial forecasts of what you could deliver within that program. Now, you have to start making commitments to what you can deliver. This leads into what I consider the most important part of building a program: creating the business case. It is…

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March 21, 2023February 16, 2023

The future is going to show up for us no matter what we do or say. We may be able to influence it, but we definitely are not stopping it.

None of us are capable of holding back the tides of time. One way or another, we are all in a race to the future. As the line goes, “Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” For better or worse, Corporate Real Estate is a world that solely focuses on the future….

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February 7, 2023January 26, 2023

My thoughts on desk booking systems for managing space and occupancy (hint: I don’t like them)

Desk Booking has been the hot item in “PropTech” for over a year now. Sure, most of the systems pretend to be something like the “OS of the Workplace,” but that’s just fancy sales window dressing. The reality is that any time a company begins contemplating having fewer desks in their office than people assigned,…

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September 16, 2022September 16, 2022

Too much real estate data is not always a good thing. Data is dangerous when misunderstood.

As an Industrial Engineer, I love data and all the things I can do with a good, high-quality data set. As a Real Estate professional, I am completely used to working in a world with limited, fragmented data. These two worlds actually come together surprisingly well historically because understanding what to look for in a…

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Recent Posts

  • Creating a Real Estate Program [Series Summary]
  • Creating a Real Estate Program [Part 6] – (Finally) Transitioning from planning to delivery
  • Creating a Real Estate Program [Part 5] – It is time to get approval for the program (this may start going outside your control)
  • Creating a Real Estate Program [Part 4] – Iterating (over and over and over and….) your business case
  • Creating a Real Estate Program [Part 3] – Crafting a business case from your forecasts

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