Category: CRE Trends

  • Realcomm Rehash… with Hashtags

    These days it seems like social media is everywhere you look (to those who disagree, perhaps you find yourself only looking at sand?). Last week’s Realcomm conference in Las Vegas was no exception. Professionals from the corners of commercial, corporate, institutional and government real estate gathered in Sin City to… tweet! As we explored the…

  • Three CRE Social Media Mavens Who Turned It Around

    When you think of social media, do you picture Facebook, Twitter and millions of young people posting updates on their lives such as: “Score! Just watched my 15th episode of SVU in a row…” While this obviously happens more often than not, social media is also a constant supplier of the latest and greatest in…

  • How Property Managers Can Prove Their Value

    L’Oréal’s “because I’m worth it” is pretty unlikely to impress management, building owners and tenants. Owners and investors are becoming more data-driven. Tenants are brokers are raising their expectations. As a result, property managers need to get on their numbers game – quantifying their performance and measuring productivity. So how do you not only run…

  • New On-Demand Webinar: Managing Property Performance

    In this complimentary webinar, learn how Operations Performance Management will clarify your business objectives, focus your employees on the activities that matter, and have tenants singing your praises.

  • Do You Suffer from the Lake Wobegon Effect? Answer This

    What do CEOs, hedge fund managers, coaches, college students, parents, presidents and property managers all have in common? They all have a tendency to overestimate their performance. They make up the residents of the fictional town Lake Wobegon, where everyone claims to be above average. Plainly, property managers have a tendency to believe that their…

  • How Technology Has Changed your Workplace

    According to a recent BUILDINGS article, the vast majority of American companies (90%) plan to invest more in productivity-enabling technologies by 2015. Leading-edge technologies are a known strategy for companies to reduce expenses, increase productivity, and even attract talent. But what do they mean for the average worker? Here’s 3 ways technology has changed the…

  • 3 Ways to Get Your Team on Board with New Technology

    It’s rarely easy to initiate a new order of things. As someone who often deploys BEI to new customers with no prior system or technology in place, I am familiar with the challenge of showing users the value of a new process. The software and methods associated with using it can help them in their…

  • How Property Managers Can Get in on the Pinterest Phenom

    With Mashable announcing Pinterest as the #3 social media website on Monday, many businesses have come to see the network in a new light – one that shines on 104 million visitors. The visually fueled platform acts like a cross between an interactive Facebook album and a fantasy Flickr- it’s a collection of photos people…

  • Keep it Together: Managing Information in One Location

    What we’re finding in a marketplace as we’re experiencing these days, people just pass on the properties that don’t have everything neat and tidy in a single location. Here are three reasons to manage building operations information in a single source

  • Hold The Phone! The Top 5 Resources in Mobility for CRE

    Learn how building operations teams are picking up the “phone” to improve service, equipment maintenance, worker efficiency and response time with our latest and greatest in mobility resources to improve building operations.