Consulting helps clients solve the complex challenges that reside at
the intersection of business operations and real estate. The Office
Platform Solutions practice develops location, occupancy, footprint, and
process redeployment strategies to enable clients to meet their
workforce, operating, workplace, and cost-saving goals. We look at all
facets of office lease and acquisition, including space and workforce
efficiencies, rent levels, and brand management.
Companies facing any of the following circumstances may require
location, occupancy, footprint, or process redeployment strategies:
A new or relocating operation
Your company may be considering relocating an existing operation to a
new location, or establishing a new operation such as a shared service
centre, call centre, or transaction processing.
A major lease event in the future
For major lease events, CW Global Business Consulting can help
define and measure alternative scenarios, ensuring a rational business
case for executive review and approval.
A real estate or labour cost reduction imperative
If the C-Suite has established cost reduction targets, we can help drive savings through real estate and labour cost savings.
Inflexible or inefficient use of space
Your portfolio may possess significant vacancy, or is not able to effectively accommodate moves, adds, or changes.
Steep business unit growth
Your portfolio is not able to keep up with steep and/or variable
headcount growth, leading to reactive portfolio planning and suboptimal
solutions.
A mismatch between operations and rent levels
Your occupancy costs may be above market, or you may have
transactional operations in Class A or other central business district
space. Sub-optimal Co-location of Business Units. Your portfolio may not
accommodate business unit adjacencies and co-locations as well as
necessary for optimal process execution or employee collaboration.
How We Can Help
Location strategies
We help clients identify the most favourable location for a new or
relocating business operation, and also help clients understand the
optimal national or global footprint for a collection of business
operations.
Regional occupancy and footprint strategies
We partner with clients and our brokerage teams to develop
alternative occupancy and footprint scenarios within a defined market
area, define scenario evaluation criteria, measure the economic and
non-economic impact of alternative scenarios, and create a business case
for the optimal scenario.
Redeployment strategies
We help you identify candidates for relocation, and determine its
financial feasibility. We partner with Human Resource teams to define
workforce requirements and transition assumptions. If relocation is
feasible, we create a location strategy to help your company understand
the optimal location or locations for the vetted functions.
Cost modelling
Were familiar with all the cost levers, including their usefulness
and risk, available to executives across this terrain. Our sophisticated
cost modelling techniques allow executives to understand alternative
scenarios and potential solutions that will affect the metrics most
important to your business.
Portfolio assessments
An analysis of your current corporate real estate portfolio can
identify hidden opportunities to improve utilisation, consolidate
operations, reduce costs, improve efficiencies, and align the portfolio
with business operations. This also allows us foresight into scenarios
that will change our team posture from reactive to proactive.