Asia Pacific

SNAP Session Report: Workplace Strategies

Sunday, March 27th, 2011

Posted by:
Nick Clifford
Associate Director, Corporate Consulting, Asia Pacific

SNAP Session 9 gave us two case studies of how workplace strategies can contribute to business goals.

In A Blueprint for BlueWork: How American Express Future-Proofed the Workplace, we saw how workplace strategies can be introduced to help attract and retain talent while simultaneously providing space efficiencies in an expensive real estate market.

Achieving Optimized Agility @ Work — a Yell Case Study, demonstrated how Yell used workplace strategies to reduce its property overhead by more than 75 percent, improve employee efficiency, and ultimately boost sales.

To find out how they did it, click here and read my full session report.

Nick

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Session Report: The Practical Aspects of LEED Certification – From New Building Design to Office Fit Out

Sunday, March 27th, 2011

Posted by:
Nick Clifford
Associate Director, Corporate Consulting, Asia Pacific

This educational site tour involved developments and offices on course to achieve LEED Platinum status, including Jones Lang LaSalle’s new office in Swire’s Three Pacific Place and Hysan’s new development in Causeway Bay, Hysan Place.

David Cain, Head of Project & Development Services at Jones Lang LaSalle, said that additional cost of developing its green office should achieve payback within two to three years. Isaac Taam, Building Sustainability Consultant at Arup, showed us through the secret rooms of Hysan Place in true “James Bond” fashion.

What did these projects focus on to aim for LEED Certification? Click here to read my full session report and find out more.

Nick

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Session Report: What’s Your Social Net Worth? Corporate Real Estate in the Attention Age

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Posted by:
Nick Clifford
Associate Director, Corporate Consulting, Asia Pacific

Lady Gaga has an amazing 9 million followers on Twitter. While this statistic caused a chuckle amongst the crowd, it led to a very important point. She is able to reach 9 million people instantly when she has something to say.

Michiel Waaijer from Eight Partnership introduced us to the power of social media to reach customers and colleagues, efficiently gauge opinion, share ideas or simply keep in touch.

What are the practical experiences of the CRE professional? Microsoft, P&G and Jones Lang LaSalle shared their experiences with Social Media. Click here to read my full session report and find out more.

Nick

p.s. keep up with the Summit conversation on Twitter by following @JLLNews or searching for #CoreNet

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Session Report: Emerging Technologies’ Impact on Urbanization and the Workplace

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Posted by:
Nick Clifford
Associate Director, Corporate Consulting, Asia Pacific

Gordon Feller, Director of Urban Innovations at Cisco, and Peter Miscovich, Managing Director of Corporate Solutions at Jones Lang LaSalle in the Americas, opened the discussion on how new technologies will shape the urban landscape and workplace in the near future.

According to Gordon, four “mega trends” will change the world and the extent of urbanization is changing as technologies evolve, while Peter  explained that we should now be thinking about “mobile everything”.

What are the four mega trends? Can everything really go mobile? Click here to read my full session report and find out more.

Nick

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Session Report: How Economic Pressure Shapes the Society

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Posted by:
Nick Clifford
Associate Director, Corporate Consulting, Asia Pacific

In the opening General Session – moderated by John Forrest from Jones Lang LaSalle – Dr Jim Walker, Founder and Managing Director of Asianomics, provided what he described as a view of the world that was not tinted, but realistic.

With a “Scottish economist applying the Austrian approach of economics to Asia” we were introduced to some very different concepts to those we may have heard before.

So what did he have to say about Asia? Click here to read my full session report and find out what Dr Walker had to say about the three big economies of Japan, China and India.

Nick

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