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Creating Corporate Value

Creating Corporate Value through Workplace Strategy
(MCR Elective)

Sponsored by

Bovis Lend Lease

This seminar explores the critical alignment of workplace strategy with business strategy to improve productivity in the workplace and impact thebottom line. Effective corporate real estate management develops workplace strategies based on an understanding of the relationships between physical space, worker/business unit productivity and corporate culture. The various components of real estate operations that affect this strategyare reviewed, including: portfolio, location, design and layout, adjacencies, alternative and virtual officing, work process, and technology. The integration of HR, IT, finance, and real estate issues is examined in this context.

The seminar examines the ultimate test of a successful real estate/workplace strategy: the ability to attract, enable, and retain a productive work force within given constraints. Also discussed is the applicability of these concepts to work environments including knowledge work, manufacturing, and the service industry. Actual business cases and examples covered include Nortel, Compaq, Reynolds & Reynolds, General Services Administration, Fidelity Investments and numerous other Fortune 500 organizations.

Seminar Overview

Business Perspective

  • A climate of extraordinary change
  • The shifting role of the corporate real estate executive
  • Starting with a strategic plan
  • Responding to agile business models

Workplace Perspective

  • Nature of the organization
  • Nature of work
  • Designing the right workplace
  • Managing change

How You Will Benefit

  • Understand the forces that are changing the way the workplace is designed
  • Understand the demands of a changing workforce and the needs of the knowledge worker
  • Examine alternative methods for evaluating workplace needs
  • Ability to become more of a strategic partner with executive management
  • Ability to demonstrate tangible impact of workplace strategy on the bottom line

Who Should Attend

  • Corporate real estate executives whose goals are to expand their leadership ability to align workplace strategy with the business mission
  • Those professionals who want to understand how the workplace can become a tool in achieving the business goals of an organization

For Seminar Fees and Registration click here:  Seminar Fees & Registration