VFA Webinar

Transforming Your Corporate Real Estate Operation into a Core Strategic Function

Corporations have $4 trillion in property, plant and equipment on the balance sheet and 30-40% of that total is real estate. To optimally manage those capital assets, real estate professionals need to understand how best to align capital planning with strategic business objectives.

Learn how a leading global investment bank transformed its Corporate Real Estate function to provide strategic management of its key assets worldwide. Discover some of the innovative ways the corporation is using VFA software to benchmark facility performance across multiple geographies, understand risks and liabilities associated with facility assets, experiment with portfolio options, and effectively plan for capital needs in each of its global regions.

What You’ll Learn

  • How to align your real estate strategy with strategic corporate imperatives e.g. workplace improvement, sustainability, etc.
  • How to align your real estate strategy with corporate strategic objectives
  • How to quantify the value and liability of your capital assets
  • How accurate, multi-year cost forecasting and “what-if” Scenario approaches inform long-term capital planning

Who Should Attend?

This webinar is best suited for senior real estate professionals working in medium and large corporations or corporate real estate management firms and responsible for:

  • Corporate Real Estate Services, CRES, Estate Management
  • Capital Planning, Capital Budgeting
  • Real Estate Strategy and Planning
  • Facilities Operations and Management

Speaker

Jim Blaschke
VP Corporate Sales, VFA, Inc. and Managing Director, VFA, Ltd.
In his role as vice president of corporate sales at VFA, Mr. Blaschke manages sales to the corporate market in the US and UK. He has 25 years experience in information-technology partnering, sales and marketing, most recently directing worldwide channel sales at Lumigent Technologies, Inc. He has previously served in sales, business development, and marketing executive roles at Intellution, Sun Microsystems, MatrixOne and General Electric.

About VFA

Headquartered in Boston, VFA, Inc. is the leading provider of end-to-end solutions for facilities capital planning and asset management. VFA solutions uniquely combine facility assessment services, Web-based software and business consulting services to enable customers to manage every stage of the capital asset lifecycle — from requirements gathering and long-term planning to capital budget creation and spend management. Over 400 organizations in corporate, education, government and healthcare markets have relied on VFA solutions to strategically manage their capital assets. VFA’s flagship software product, VFA.facility®, is currently used to manage more than two billion square feet of real estate. 1-800-693-3132

 

Date & Time

Thursday, September 4, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (15:00 GMT)

Fees

This webinar is complimentary. There is no fee.

Location

Online using WebEx