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What is Strategic Facilities Planning?
A Strategic Facilities Plan is the link between business strategies and real estate strategies. A recent study in the Journal of Corporate Real Estate indicates that even the best real estate databases do not support high-level portfolio decision making. Developing a knowledge management system for a real estate portfolio that is integrated with management decision-making starts with the development of a strategic facilities plan.

Strategic Facilities Plans assist enterprises in determining when to buy, sell, renovate or lease facilities and are a key element in avoiding future unneeded occupancy and construction cost. This coordinated approach to management adds value to the enterprise by aligning a forward-looking facilities infrastructure with the needs of the core business. Strategic Facilities Planning is founded on the principle that management of a group of buildings versus individual facility management can yield improvements in the real estate's contribution to productivity, financial performance and strategic performance of the enterprise.

Strategic Facility Planning provides a product - a plan - but it is also a system for:

  • Managing change
  • Controlling operating cost
  • Critically re-evaluating capital expenditures required to support the organization
  • Anticipating organizational needs
  • Providing an infrastructure for business
  • Knowledge management

The System for Management can help you improve both time to market and facilities performance so that you can realize a financial benefit of 13% or more. Our goal is to assist you in making fact-based facility decisions that enhance both short and long-term shareholder value.

Here is how we at Grogan Associates can help:

  • Strategic Planning Audit: Conduct an Audit of your current planning process and to determine improvement opportunities.
  • Rapid Efficiency Assessment Program: A high level benchmark of your portfolio performance and direction on where to focus your cost saving efforts.
  • Strategic Facility Planning Process Development
  • Outsourced Strategic Facility Planning: Working with our professionals your team can leverage our expertise and tools to develop your short term and long term strategic plans. Clients can outsource the majority of the strategic planning process and focus their energy on assessing recommendations and implementation plans.
  • Programming: Grogan Associates can work with your team for individual building programming, market planning or programming for the entire portfolio.
  • Custom Benchmarking
  • Executive Reporting Development

Do you have a tough real estate problem? Ask Grogan to help you find a solution.

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