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by Audrey Pennington Many expanding companies are finding themselves stranded in labor pool?s shallow end, unable to hire enough workers with the right stuff. What?s the single thorniest issue facing corporate site locators currently? Hands down, agree consultants and corporate pros, the single biggest obstacle is finding an adequate supply of workers with the right […]

?Any color is fine as long as it?s black.? That was Henry Ford?s take on how consumer demands affected model T manufacturing: They didn?t. A relic of the long-gone days of total market control, Ford?s one-size-fits-all standard is now a prescription for disaster — and so are the real estate strategies that supported it. Consider […]

What?s your key to productive, profitable manufacturing, office or distribution facilities? Chances are, it?s skilled workers. Without top-notch, skilled employees out on the factory floor or in front of a computer, the best-run business topples like a house of cards. That?s made evaluating pre-employment worker training a crucial consideration in choosing new facility locations. Quality […]

by Audrey Pennington When BankAmerica decided to drive down construction costs and give its business units a leg up on the competition, BAC?s corporate real estate group radically revamped its approach to designing work environments. The result: a set of award-winning, real estate workplace best practices There?s a new mantra among the corporate real estate […]

IDRC?s Best Practices Research Award recognizes excellence in the practice of corporate real estate in selected areas identified by the International Development Research Council. The objective? To identify and promote best-in-class examples of how firms are meeting the major challenges facing corporate real estate practitioners today. Best Practices Award CLW Realty Group Real Estate Service […]

The stories are rampant. The Boeing Co. plans to double production, pushing an aircraft a day out of a Boeing hangar. The market for business jets is exploding. Product liability reform has re-opened the door for small aircraft production. But while the aerospace industry is enjoying an unprecedented rebirth, it comes after a decade of […]

Let’s Make a Strategic Deal: 1996’s Top 10, pgs. 220-238 Strategic Expansion’s Consummate Collaborators: 1996’s Top 10 Development Groups, pgs. 240-255 Strategic Alliances: Shaky, but Steady Steps Up the Value-Added Staircase, pgs. 256-261 The High Tech Edge: Whether Bleeding or Leading, It’s Transforming Business Expansion Best Practices Award: CLW Realty Group, Real Estate Service Delivery, […]

The deal. For expansion-minded firms, it?s the alpha and omega of economic enterprise, the rocket fuel of business growth. Good deals deliver: capacity, jobs, profits and prosperity. Every day, development projects evolve into good deals for both the company and the community, and thousands are sealed every year. Some of the best, though, are object […]

Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov and other international chess champions usually don?t ask for advice on their next move. Veritable lone wolves, they stand or fall on their own wits, skill and strategy. Companies, though, needn?t operate that way in crafting real estate strategies involving multimillion-dollar facilities. In fact, more and more firms are relying on […]

To outsource or not to outsource — that is not the question. You can never be too thin, it seems, in these downsized days. ?Doing it all? has become tantamount to not doing it all effectively. Scattershot diversification is as obsolete as O.J. Simpson?s viability as a corporate spokesperson. Instead, the big business question is […]