Podcast by CoreNet Global's What's Next Podcast
CoreNet Global's What's Next Podcast
Listen as Pallavi Shrivastava, Principal and Workplace Strategist, Arcadis, and Jodi Williams, Principal and Global Director, Optimized Asset Portfolios, Arcadis, discuss how the workplace and workplace strategies are evolving.
Listen as Adam Stark, President and CEO of Stark Office Suites, discusses the role of fully serviced offices in today's evolving workplace.
As multiple pressures bear down on today's corporations—constrained budgets, the difficulties of attracting and retaining talent, the need to adopt sustainable practices—the organization's infrastructure and support services are expected to perform more efficiently and in more innovative ways.
Business continuity has been defined as the process by which companies mitigate, to the greatest extent possible, unacceptable risks to their commercial viability, taking all reasonable and prudent measures to ensure that the company's critical operations will continue to function throughout any emergency and, in the unlikely event that they are unable to do so, that they can be restored to operational capacity as quickly and seamlessly as possible.
Employees in today's progressive workplace often encounter a vastly different scene than their counterparts experienced a few years ago. Instead of clocking in and then settling into a cubicle while the boss looks on from the corner office, workers today are arriving to find workplaces that are arranged in a variety of ways to meet a variety of needs.
In 1983, the United Nations Brundtland Commission was formed, and charged with uniting countries around the world to pursue sustainable development together. In its 1987 report, “Our Common Future,” the group defined sustainability as: “development which meets the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
The Project Management Institute, one of dozens of similar organizations worldwide, defines project management in general as “the application of knowledge, skills and techniques to execute projects effectively and efficiently.”1 It goes on to say that project management responsibilities are strategic in nature, allowing organizations to link project results with business goals.
Corporate real estate professionals depend heavily on technology tools to manage complex real estate portfolios. In many cases, those portfolios comprise millions of square feet / meters of space and hundreds, perhaps even thousands of individual locations around the world. The need for a robust technology platform to manage these real property assets is obvious.
For decades, the financial, manufacturing, and professional services industries have measured performance, conducted routine analysis, and monitored trends to inform decisions and drive improvements in operational and financial results. Now, corporate real estate executives are responding to calls to improve performance, do more with less, and advance strategic decision-making by leveraging newly available tools, including meaningful benchmarking, for performance management.
In chapter 4, which addresses the property life cycle, three phases are identified: acquisition, holding period, and disposition. The holding period, or retention period, is the time the space is held by the corporation, and it is in this phase of the property life cycle that facility management (or facilities management, sometimes abbreviated as FM) comes into play.
A discussion about how corporate real estate organizations deliver services to the corporation and internal business clients starts with how the corporate real estate department “fits” within the overall corporate enterprise. What is the operating model? Is responsibility for corporate real estate centralized in a single department? Or is it decentralized, at least in part, with some functions delivered through various business units or other parts of the corporation? And does corporate real estate have a “mandate”? In other words, must the business utilize the services of the corporate real estate organization?
From a finance perspective, real estate can be both an asset and a liability. It also can represent a significant cost center for many organizations. In order to make real estate decisions or recommendations to company leaders, real estate executives need to fully understand the financial risks. What is the potential value and cost both today and in the future? Such financial analysis can relate to the acquisition and disposition of property, leasing or renewal decisions, new construction and capital expenditure projects, and the ongoing operation of real estate.
The Essential Guide to Corporate Real Estate: Chapter 5 - Real Estate Transactions and Leasing by CoreNet Global's What's Next Podcast
This chapter looks at the impact of the entire property life cycle— from concept to retirement—on the corporate portfolio. At both the property and portfolio levels, the real estate life cycle generally runs from acquisition through the length of its holding period to the disposition of space at the end of its economic usefulness (including remediation if necessary).
This chapter provides an introduction to the corporate real estate profession. It is divided into three sections, with the first section offering a definition and overview of corporate real estate and highlighting how the traditional role of corporate real estate is changing. Section two discusses the structure of corporate real estate within organizations, and section three discusses the corporate real estate profession.
Years ago, senior corporate real estate executives could be considered successful leaders if they simply delivered projects ahead of schedule and under budget. While these abilities are still valued, much more is required today, when both the demands upon and the opportunities before corporate real estate are significantly greater.
Portfolio management is a relatively recent discipline within corporate real estate. Initially begun in the 1990s within large firms, the principles underlying portfolio management have since been adopted across the profession. The goal of portfolio management is to be more intentional and proactive and to secure a long-term view of a company's real estate assets, given that they typically rank among the top three expenditures of the corporation.
The Essential Guide to Corporate Real Estate - Chapter 2 by CoreNet Global's What's Next Podcast
As multiple pressures bear down on today's corporations—constrained budgets, the difficulties of attracting and retaining talent, the need to adopt sustainable practices—the organization's infrastructure and support services are expected to perform more efficiently and in more innovative ways.
Companies are changing the way they do business in response to globalization, influences that transform the workplace into workspace, and a constantly shifting environment of macroeconomic forces. In fast-moving companies seeking competitive advantage, these forces are prompting corporate real estate professionals to take on new roles, moving from a transaction-based cost center to a strategic asset that manages functions adding value to the enterprises. This chapter delves into these trends, and their likely continuing impact on corporate real estate far into the future.
Listen as Brady Mick, Strategic Design Leader at American Structurepoint, discusses the role of workplace design in helping teams collaborate and do their best work.
Written by Sid Majumdar and narrated by Gayle Crew. The corporate cafeteria supply chain is broken, and the fix may already be growing inside your building. Food prices have surged 23.6 percent since 2020, supply chain disruptions now hit every 3.7 years on average, and 30 percent of all produce spoils before reaching an end user.
Written by Emma Ascott and narrated by Gayle Crew. Coworking was built on a simple promise: Work near other people and good things will happen. Coworking spaces have been known to inspire ideas, friendships, referrals, energy.
Listen as Cliff Booth, Founder and Chairman of Westmount Realty Capital, discusses the factors driving decisions in industrial real estate today.
Written by Bob Varga and Mette Shenker and narrated by Gayle Crew. Hospitality-inspired design has become the standard for modern offices. For the past decade, principles and trends from hotels, restaurants, and other hospitality spaces have brought comfort and functionality into today's office design. The era of hospitality-inspired design helped employees and guests feel welcome, but today it can feel flat, inauthentic, and difficult to execute on a budget.
Written by Tim Hatton and Narrated by Gayle Crew. After a decade outside Birmingham, engineering consultancy Arup returned to the city center. The move reconnects the firm with clients and community while accommodating 900 people – each with different working needs – and signals its renewed commitment to the Midlands.
Listen as Varun Kohli, Director of Sustainability, and Matt McDonald, Office Sector Leader, both with Corgan, discuss a landmark sustainable design project. Their client, Wells Fargo, has opened the largest net-positive corporate campus in the US.
Written by Rob Kubiak and Narrated by Gayle Crew. You can almost hear it already: the sales call on speakerphone, the laughter from the kitchen, the coffee machine or Keurig, the project huddle that somehow migrated right behind your chair. It is the ambient soundtrack of modern work, and it is exhausting a lot of people.
Written by Brita Everett, Joo Oh, Jessica Parrish, and Matthew Somerton. Narrated by Gayle Crew. In the high-speed world of finance, milliseconds and micro-decisions matter. Yet peak performance depends on recovery as much as reaction time. Neuroscience shows that even brief moments of respite can restore working memory, sharpen focus, and regulate stress responses – without slowing output. For today's financial firms, the competitive edge lies in workplaces that balance intensity with recovery, creating environments that sustain both people and performance.
Listen as Rachel MacCleery, Executive Director at the ULI Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate, and Luke Lanciano, Director of Sustainability for Tower Companies, discuss harnessing renewable energy.
A discussion on challenges and pro tips to executing projects successfully in Asia. Based on real life (sometimes humorous) experiences of two industry veterans.
Savills Global Occupier Services leaders from North America, EMEA and APAC discuss how to leverage CRE strategy and the evolving role of Global Capabilities Centers to meet talent, innovation and cost objectives.
Savills leaders in global enterprise solutions and industrial and logistics discuss the synergy of office and industrial CRE strategy and the role of 3PL's with DHL America's head of transaction strategy.
A discussion led by Savills CEO of Global Occupier Services, Rick Schuham, of how AI can be deployed and integrated into lease administration and portfolio planning workflow to increase efficiency and add value .
In this episode, Bill Harter, Principal Solution Advisor at Visual Lease and CoStar Group, shares how leading organizations are shifting from lease accounting compliance to portfolio optimization in corporate real estate. As organizations move past meeting new accounting standards, the conversation is shifting toward using data and market insights to make smarter portfolio decisions. Bill shares how real estate leaders can evaluate lease economics, anticipate market changes, and align their portfolios with future business needs to drive greater efficiency and resilience.
If you think you know what older workers want—or what they can deliver—prepare to have those assumptions turned upside down.
This session will highlight emerging trends in biophilic design, workplace wellness, and corporate sustainability, offering forward-looking strategies that property owners and occupiers can implement today.
If organizations want to maximize every inch of their real estate, they must move beyond traditional space planning and embrace real-time, data-driven decision-making.
Traditionally, CRE decisions have relied on fragmented data from multiple sources—lease management, occupancy analytics, HR, and financial reports.
What if we told you that your workplace has a hidden menu? Not just the one in the cafe or pantry, but the one made up of your environment, culture and overall foodscape.
Understand how to redefine innovation as the next essential human resource—one that allows us to create more than we consume, build trust in a world of doubt, and choose wisely when the stakes are highest.
In this session, we don't want to give you trends, just facts. Start with helping understand the science of innovation followed by a showcase of Space Matrix's diverse tenant project benchmarks from across APAC.
Setting team members up for success by breaking down siloes and mentoring them in a way that works for them. Learn more through this short session!
Non-profit organizations have long thrived by blending people-first approaches, good business practices, and creative funding strategies to advance their missions and drive growth.
Decades of research shows that in-person interactions play a critical role in fostering innovation. What does this mean for work today, so much of which is distributed and conducted over asynchronous collaboration platforms?
In today's competitive landscape, employers and landlords are looking beyond conventional amenities to create workplaces that foster employee well-being and retention.
A major component of successful hybrid, return-to-campus, and recruitment/retention strategies is the physical environment that workers can return to.
Mute unveils the findings of a study analyzing the impact of modular and adaptable architecture on office fit-outs.
As organizations navigate workplace transformation, technology and applications can multiply and become disparate - leaving big picture value realization on the table. Learn how to align strategies through this session.
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