A podcast series exploring the trends, data, and market dynamics shaping commercial real estate. In each episode, we draw on CoStar’s most current research and market intelligence to provide insights for real estate decision makers across the industry.

From our Portfolio Performance as a Strategic Advantage Thought Leader Partner, CoStar. A podcast series exploring the trends, data, and market dynamics shaping commercial real estate. In each episode, we draw on CoStar’s most current research and market intelligence to provide insights for real estate decision makers across the industry.

Names and titles of the speakers featured in the podcast: Juan Arias, National Director of US Industrial Analytics

Listen as Pallavi Shrivastava, Principal and Workplace Strategist, Arcadis, and Jodi Williams, Principal and Global Director, Optimized Asset Portfolios, Arcadis, discuss how the workplace and workplace strategies are evolving.

Listen as Adam Stark, President and CEO of Stark Office Suites, discusses the role of fully serviced offices in today's evolving workplace.

As multiple pressures bear down on today’s corporations—constrained budgets, the difficulties of attracting and retaining talent, the need to adopt sustainable practices—the organization’s infrastructure and support services are expected to perform more efficiently and in more innovative ways.

Business continuity has been defined as the process by which companies mitigate, to the greatest extent possible, unacceptable risks to their commercial viability, taking all reasonable and prudent measures to ensure that the company’s critical operations will continue to function throughout any emergency and, in the unlikely event that they are unable to do so, that they can be restored to operational capacity as quickly and seamlessly

as possible.

Employees in today’s progressive workplace often encounter a vastly different scene than their counterparts experienced a few years ago. Instead of clocking in and then settling into a cubicle while the boss looks on from the corner office, workers today are arriving to find workplaces that are arranged in a variety of ways to meet a variety of needs.

In 1983, the United Nations Brundtland Commission was formed, and charged with uniting countries around the world to pursue sustainable development together. In its 1987 report, “Our Common Future,” the group defined sustainability as: “development which meets the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

The Project Management Institute, one of dozens of similar organizations worldwide, defines project management in general as “the application of knowledge, skills and techniques to execute projects effectively and efficiently.”1 It goes on to say that project management responsibilities are strategic in nature, allowing organizations to link project results with business goals.

Corporate real estate professionals depend heavily on technology tools to manage complex real estate portfolios. In many cases, those portfolios comprise millions of square feet / meters of space and hundreds, perhaps even thousands of individual locations around the world. The

need for a robust technology platform to manage these real property assets is obvious.