Because 'you can't manage what you can't measure', it is critical to articulate the key performance indicators (KPIs) to determine if you're making progress to achieve success.

These KPIs become the "gauges on your dashboard." Research has indicated that some of the primary corporate real estate KPIs are:

• Cost/Square Feet (SF)

Getting to Corporate Real Estate’s Future State

My son, a history teacher, gave me the book Super Freakonomics.

Apart from the reminder that the co-authors were keynote speakers at our Atlanta Global Summit a few years back, reading the best-seller reinforced Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt’s focus on how major economic drivers and societal forces become obsolete. [more]

We all know that “Cash is King”. It therefore comes as no surprise that real estate financial analysis in our generation and longer have virtually all focused on cash flows, discounted cash flows (DCF) and net present values (NPV). In fact, the DCF methodology was first articulated in 1938 by John Burr Williams in his article “The Theory of Investment Value”. Having been around so long and having been utilized so often, how is that so many decision makers have lost so much money so often? [more]

Most corporations tend to stick to their long-term strategies during economic downturns, or do they?

We made the assertion that strategy overrides cost cutting as a key part of our 2009 [more]