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CRE: Are we approaching an inflection point?
Corporate Real Estate Journal,
3
(4),
277-280
(2014)
Abstract
With the virtual world currently revolutionising when, where and how people work, this paper is a call to arms for employers and employees to change the way they think about the workplace. The author wishes for all CRE employees to begin talking about new ways the work ‘place’ can be perceived, and entreats us to think of CRE employees as ‘value deliverers’, as opposed to ‘cost controllers’. The focus must shift towards people rather than place, because the work ‘place’ is now all around us, accessible from anywhere. This is something the CRE industry must take advantage of in order to wring the maximum amount of value from the ever changing world of current big business.
Keywords: CRE; IDRC; human resources; organisational collaboration; facilities management
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Author's Biography
Chris Kane is the former head of Corporate Real Estate at BBC Workplace, and is currently working part time for BBC Commercial Projects on phase 2 of the Smart Value Sale of Television Centre London (TVC). Chris also serves as a nonexecutive director of NHS Property Services Ltd and a board member of Network Housing Group (social housing provider). BBC Commercial Projects was set up to ensure that TVC emerges as a high-quality mixed-use creative destination complex that is financially successful, provides a new home for BBC Worldwide, a new audiencefacing base for the studios business and respects the BBC’s legacy. Chris joined the BBC in January 2004 as Head of Corporate Real Estate. Under his leadership the Property Department has been restructured and relaunched as BBC Workplace. In November 2012 he transferred to BBC Commercial Projects. As Head of BBC Workplace he was responsible for the development, financing and implementation of the BBC’s £2b property strategy and for managing the team that provides the right workplace for all BBC employees. Prior to joining the BBC, he was VicePresident of International Corporate Real Estate for the Walt Disney Company.
