Experience matters –
- That poorly planned furniture move schedule WILL impact your facility go-live. Oh, you forgot to plan for that when picking when you have to move out of your existing building?
- Bigger sites with more people don’t always equal greater productivity.
- Bigger sites with more people in low cost areas don’t always equal cost savings.
- Smaller sites with shorter lease terms don’t always equal more real estate flexibility.
- Sometimes cost shouldn’t be a factor in real estate decisions.
- Sometimes cost should be the only factor in real estate decisions.
- 12 months is not always long enough to make decisions.
- 24 months is not always long enough to make decisions.
- 6 months can be too long for some decisions.
- It is common for clients to not know they have locations in a particular market.
- Forecasting is a four letter word.
- For any given financial modeler you work with, you will receive 3 different “completely accurate” financial models for the same project that disagree with each other.
- A lease is just a contract – not an actual binding agreement.
- ALWAYS check your actual lease payments against what you are supposed to pay. Usually they don’t match (and rarely do they not match in your favor).
- There is no project in this world not eligible for incentives somewhere.
- Incentives can sometimes hurt a project more than they can help.
- Just because you qualified for incentives doesn’t mean that you’ll receive them.
- Just because you’ve been approved for incentives doesn’t mean that you’ll receive them.
- The world has become one giant Global market.
- Local markets have never been more important.
- Microeconomics will impact your business more than ever.
- Global ecommerce is the only way to make money in the future.
And that’s barely scratching the surface….it’s been a wild ride so far.