Journal of Corporate Real Estate: Volume 7 Issue 3

Enterprise program management: A Sprint case study

Dan Boutross

In the midst of a major corporate reorganization and an ever‐changing industry landscape, how does a corporate real estateorganization successfully build enterprise alliances and…

Global workplace trends: A North American and European comparison

Christine Barber, Andrew Laing, Marilyn Simeone

The following article reports the results of a global benchmarking/trend survey conducted among 127 senior level real estate and facilities executives from North America and…

Workplace strategy: What it is and why you should care

Audrey Ellison Schriefer

Innovative workplace solutions have been known as “workplace of the future”or “alternative fficing.” Today these concepts are being adopted by a cadre of forward‐thinking…

The impact of business outsourcing on corporate real estate in India

Kiran Naidu, Richard Reed, Chris Heywood

Driven by Western companies' requirements for efficiency and effectiveness, a trend towards outsourcing of business activities to India and other low‐cost countries commenced in…

Cost of outsourcing versus cost of rental services for office buildings in Switzerland

Christian Stoy, Susanne Kytzia

This paper addresses the question as to what extent the outsourcing degrees of property management influence the operating costs of owner‐operated real estate. For this purpose…

Outsourcing for corporate real estate managers: How can real estate learn lessons from other industries?

Martin Farncombe, Andrew Waller

Outsourcing is a mechanism which has transformed the delivery of facilities management, logistics, IT and other services to today's corporations. This paper looks at the reasons…

How new infrastructure provided flexibility, controlled cost and empowered workers at Sun Microsystems

Eric Richert, David Rush

Although much has been written about the challenges facing businesses in the 21st century, perhaps most daunting is the notion that if a company is to excel, it needs to…