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Strategic Property and Workplace Projects

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The services provided within Strategic Property & Workplace Projects can be separated into four distinct areas:

1. Strategic Property Advice

Property strategy (Portfolio Planning) – This estates consultancy service analyses existing property portfolio to evaluate performance across a number of metrics, identifying options to better align the property to the business needs and increase the efficiency as well as assisting with cost reduction initiatives.

A property considered, strategic property plan provides for a structured approach to growth or rationalisation and when considered with an equally well considered workplace design, will bring added value of improved staff moral, identity, retention and productivity. Our team have many years of experience, both as corporate occupiers and consultants in strategic consultancy advice including estates rationalisation, property disposal and portfolio strategy.

Key Benefits:

Provision of a clear corporate property strategy and an approach to implementing it
An enabler to business planning
Clearer investment planning for estates strategy
Identify opportunities for asset disposals from estates rationalisation
Cost effective use of space + potential for ongoing lower operating costs
Avoids ‘last minute’ investment decisions to meet changing business needs
Procurement analysis / strategy

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2. Workplace Solutions

Workplace strategy - This workplace consultancy team has many years of experience providing innovative workplace solutions that are flexible in use and enable an agile workforce to be at their most productive and reduce property operating cost at the same time.

We have a proven track record of delivering complex and challenging accommodation strategy projects that require detailed assessment, definition and delivering optimum workplace and property based solutions to meet both current and future needs of the organisation.

Our workplace solutions will help deliver a well considered workplace design to bring the added value of improved staff morale, identity, retention, belonging and productivity, and contribute towards many organisation’s vision and key objectives.

In many cases, it is not unusual to find the way in which people work and the facilities that they use are not aligned to each other.

When did you last consider whether the workplace best meets the needs of the workforce to undertake their tasks – how are activities carried out? What technology is needed? Where is it done? etc. All too often, we assume that a standard solution, ‘one size fits all’ approach is right. The workforce of tomorrow (and today) requires something different.

Key Benefits;

Achieve property related operating cost efficiencies
Improve communication and innovation within teams
Improve productivity and service efficiencies
Achieve an improvement in service quality to clients
Attract and retain the very best talent in their sector

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3. Project Leadership

This term defines the services carried out by our consulting team, many of whom have held senior positions within large corporate real estate organisations, when undertaking the following activities;

Identifying the need for a project
Project definition and briefing
Programme management
Option analysis, appraisal and recommendation
Procurement strategies
Business case writing
Implementation monitoring

Often referred to within organisations as a ‘Project Sponsorship’ role, we are able to place individuals with project leadership expertise and many years of programme management experience within existing client’s team to complement and enhance in house capacity forming an effective partnership that will deliver cost effective results.

Whilst we have a clear methodology and activity planning for this Leadership role, we recognise that every client is different, and the drivers for each project varied. Our first activity is therefore listening; we need to understand how your organisation works, what the key drivers and objectives are and identify where we can best add value.

If you’ve got a challenge that needs resolving, or considering embarking on a project and would like an impartial review on the approach to be taken, or a project that needs some guidance to get it back on track, please feel free to make contact to arrange a no obligation discussion.

4. Behavioural Change

A carefully constructed change programme is critical in any workplace transformation. We use our expertise to ensure that change is effectively planned, and managed, and not left to chance.

When an organisation attempts a workplace change focused on its operations, a sound property strategy and robust execution plan including workplace design solutions are not necessarily enough.

Delivering business transformation through a sound property strategy and robust execution plan, including workplace design solutions, often overlooks a fundamental element.; another important factor in realising the full benefits is behavioural change. Failure to consider how people work and behave and supporting them to find new and improved ways of working puts the original business case benefits at risk:

At a strategic level, project overruns can occur due to delayed decision making through lack of engagement and consensus amongst the senior stakeholders.
At an operation level, efficiency and productivity benefits of a re-designed workplace can be lost as habits and work practices are not modified along with the physical environment.

Our approach enables us to identify propensity to change as well as analysing what, where, how and why people behave to achieve their work related goals now. We then work with our clients to build a common understanding of the changes needed, turning ideas into committed action and managing the behavioural aspects of the change process through our experience in practical engagement and communication.

Key Benefits:

Create awareness and buy-in
Generate enthusiasm to achieve the business case
Encourage involvement and build momentum
Reduce risk and increase confidence
Deliver an integrated approach to ensure benefits are identified, captured and realised from investment in workplace change.

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