Facilities and Workplaces change and evolve. As they do, Corporate Real Estate (CRE) practitioners – operational and strategic teams – will have uncertainty on the best path for them to navigate.
New methodologies affect work space deployment, affecting space standards in a contemporary workplaces. As work places embrace more flexible approaches to work, it’s important for organizations to ask what they’re expecting to gain by going flexible. Is agile, unassigned working really the best approach for teams? What are the known strengths and weaknesses of this and other approaches?
What are smart buildings and what will they do for my organization? What is the best method of capturing utilization information? How important is it to monitor environmental conditions and what’s impacted (i.e. employee well being/ productivity, asset conditioning, resource wastage)?
How do I maintain consistency across buildings/ regions maintaining consistency across appearance and feel and data management and process? What is the impact of data quality on trust levels, costings and planning?
The Changing Workplace is turning 20 years old! It’s been an incredible journey seeing where we started, the impact we have had across the CRE industry and how much we’ve grown because of the results we generate for clients. CWP’s CEO, Steve Thorley, cut his teeth learning about the industry and practices at American Express, […]
Artificial Intelligence, or Machine Learning, is creating significant opportunities for organization’s to optimize their property portfolios. And with government and NGO’s coming together to discuss climate change and introducing ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions, AI’s uptick into the mainstream has come at the right time. Many organizations are leveraging AI to more efficiently manage […]
We do it during the commute to work, continue while at work, during the commute home and through our evenings. And it’s not healthy. In fact, sedentary lifestyles are killing people. Sedentary lifestyles have long been associated with decreased health. Researchers in the UK have attempted to put numbers to the problem. And the numbers […]
https://youtu.be/8esi2k8IOWkBuilding Navigator is a wayfinding and locating app creating an easier experience for building users when they’re on-site. Users can easily search for the space or personnel they’re looking for and rely on the app for accurate directions to bring them exactly where they need to be. The support provided by the app creates an […]
https://youtu.be/4GtZFDKxNHU Working across multiple continents, regions or countries with different service teams managing operations is difficult to manage. Without process and checks and balances in place, monitoring facility health is near impossible. WebCoRE’s Porfolio BI Scorecard is the hub for CRE data and the nucleus of control. Cross-facility data is aggregated, analyzed and presented as […]
Organizations, CRE Planners and the industry at large is adjusting and reacting to new technologies, capabilities and methodologies triggering a rapid workspace evolution. It is estimated that by 2030, thirty percent of all organizations will have adopted flexible work environments. This massive change in such a short timescale has got everyone scratching their heads over […]
The management of your facilities significantly impacts employee satisfaction and productivity. Therefore, accurate space data is vital for understanding how your space portfolio is used and how to optimize it. If not properly cared for, space data quality can soon deteriorate leading to inaccurate data and bad decision making. Below we break down the three […]
A key contributing factor of weak space management is a lack of standardized space definitions. A lack of standardization creates data inconsistencies leading to poor decision making. Below we outline four reasons why it is vital to maintain space standards throughout your organization. 1. IMPROVE DATA QUALITY Without formalized standards, teams will evolve their own […]
The management of your facilities significantly impacts employee satisfaction and productivity. Therefore, accurate space data is vital for understanding how your space portfolio is used and how to optimize it. If not properly cared for, space data quality can soon deteriorate leading to inaccurate data and bad decision making. Below we break down the three […]
Facilities are an integral part of the overall work experience and significantly impact employee’s satisfaction and productivity. Therefore, it is vital to have accurate and reliable data in order to understand how your space is being used and how to optimize it. However, in our experience, we have observed data practices that limit CRES teams […]