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Workplace Trends: Back to Basics - Survival & Recovery
Thursday 15th October 2009, Kings Place, London
This year's Workplace Trends conference focuses on the challenges faced by building managers, occupiers and designers in ensuring corporate survival while preparing to take maximum advantage of recovery from recession. The competing pressures of a financial imperative to occupy less space while continuing to provide a quality environment which attracts talented employees, facilitates increased output and stimulates creativity underlie many of the presentations. As delegates will expect from previous Trends events, the programme is made up of authoritative speakers with practical experience of dealing with these issues and providing strategic answers.
Participate in this year's conference from your desk anywhere in the world!
Simply sign up for a VIRTUAL TICKET to the conference and 2 days before the conference you'll receive conference papers, a link and a password.
On the day of the conference, all you have to do is click on the link and you'll be as good as there. You can ask questions via interactive 'chat', watch speakers presentations and make notes on conference papers, but without the cost, time and environmental impact of travel. You can also watch a recording of the conference up to 3 days after the event.
Tickets are available for the full day or individual sessions throughhout the day. Full booking details
Programme of events
| 09:30 BST | Session 1 |
| Nicholas Ridley, immediate Past President of the BCO and MD of NCReal Estate Consulting Morning chair and introduction |
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| Christopher Hedley, Director IPD, Occupiers and Management Consolidation and retrenchment - the numbers Drawing from IPD's combined databases and other sources, Christopher Hedley will analyse take-up of new leases, lease length tenant retention, break clauses, sustainability, vacancy levels, occupational densities, occupancy costs, rents and other factors to explore what is happening to the UK occupational market in autumn 2009. He will then go on to explore how the market might respond to these numbers to meet the needs of their business, providing an introduction to the conference agenda as a whole. |
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| Lee Elliott, Director EMEA Research, Jones Lang LaSalle Corporate Real Estate In Changing Times: Pressures, priorities and outlook Unprecedented economic times have brought clear and real operational pressures for corporate occupiers. For many the first half of 2009 has been about mere survival. In response senior leadership have charged Corporate Real Estate teams with two clear priorities. First, the right-sizing of property portfolios to take account of restructured businesses with, in many cases, significantly reduced headcounts. Second, the achievement of punchy real estate cost saving targets as a contribution to wider operational cost saves. Yet at the same time inertia, uncertainty and reduced confidence has meant that the very same leadership has been unable or unwilling to authorise activity that requires capital expenditure but may bring about the achievement of these twin goals. How do CRE teams respond to such pressures both now and in the future? In this presentation Dr Lee Elliott, Head of Occupier Research for Jones Lang LaSalle in the EMEA region, will explore current and future corporate real estate strategies and point to how CRE teams may be able to use market conditions to both solidify their standing within their wider businesses, leverage market opportunity and strengthen the business operationally and commercially through smart real estate decisions. |
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| 11:45 BST | Session 2 |
| Neil Rebeugeot, Director, Corporate Real Estate Services, Barclays Capital Consolidation of portfolios - a case study Over the past 24 months Barclays Capital & Wealth have streamlined the approach to acquiring, creating, mobilizing & operating their space globally. The presentation will pull out the key themes that are important in managing and expanding a diverse portfolio in an ever changing world! |
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Nigel Oseland, Director, AMA Alexi Marmot Associates Inspiring Innovation through Interaction For some thirty years or so our economy has been mostly dominated by the service industry, lead by the knowledge worker. However, we are now observing a gradual shift to the new innovation economy and the rise of the creative worker. To maintain a competitive advantage it is important to create work environments that encourage creativity and innovation. Nigel will present the results of AMA's research on the conditions required for successful interaction, collaboration and innovation. |
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| 14:30 BST | Session 3 |
| Paul Bartlett, Partner, SBS Business Solutions
Afternoon chair |
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| Paul Morrell (former senior partner, Davis Langdon) v Paul Burgess (Head of London Leasing, British Land) Debate: 'Spend to increase quality and value or cut costs to survive' This debate will explore the strategic choice faced by real estate portfolio managers of whether to respond to immediate financial pressures to reduce property expenditure to the bare minimum or to continue to invest in high quality workplaces that stimulate productive working by occupants and contribute to corporate brand values. Paul Burgess will argue for the long term benefits of sustaining corporate performance to take advantage of the upturn while Paul Morrell will put the case for focusing on survival to protect shareholder funds. |
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| Sonny Hasan, Director, Workplace Consultancy, CB Richard Ellis Measuring Productivity - CB Richard Ellis Pilot Study One of the key challenges facing most organisations especially in these unprecedented times is to reduce operational costs, increase revenue, productivity and profitability without diluting the service offering. In 2007 the Building Consultancy Department of CBRE reviewed the way it went about its day to day business and how it utilised space. By analysing working practices and levels of mobility, it was evident that the operational footprint could be reduced if alternative ways of working were adopted. After consultation, an initial pilot study was implemented for around 12 people. The pilot proved successful and now over 35% of the department works flexibly. Feedback demonstrates increased team productivity, revenues and more importantly profits are up. These have been achieved by understanding the importance of business synergies, space utilisation, the role technology and design plays in creating an effective and productive working environment. Our measure for productivity was, increased knowledge sharing, revenue and profitability. |
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| 16:15 BST | Session 4 |
| Ian Hughes Director, Feeding Edge Ltd Washing away cave paintings - Challenging pre-conceived ways of communicating in business Virtual worlds are part of the massive change in how we work when connected to one another with technology and they open up many more ways to interact with people. Engineers and computer scientists will be interested in the software and hardware platform problems that must be overcome. But what do virtual worlds do to large organizations and us as a society? Long established ways of operating business and using the planet's resources are potentially washed away. Come and hear how we may well be washing away cave paintings. |