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Presentation: Google: Driving Health and Experience Outcomes
Google aims to create healthy spaces that enable and inspire people to think big and perform at their best every day. During this session they will share their work to develop evidence-based performance requirements for design and construction aimed at creating extraordinary experience for Googlers through providing a rich, variable, multi-sensory experience in the workplace. Google is working with international experts in Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) to develop, implement and validate new practices to enhance occupant health and experience – in contrast to existing standards that emphasize risk reduction rather than health and experience promotion. To move beyond typical market approaches to design of indoor environments, Google's IEQ requirements attempt to draw new connections between cutting edge research and application in the built environment. They will share approaches to design, construction and verification of outcome-based measures for indoor air quality, daylighting and lighting, thermal comfort, acoustics, and the integration of nature with design.
Presentation: Dynamic Piloting at Zurich North America
Zurich is unique in how it's using the design process for its future North American HQ to engage employees and incorporate real-time feedback into solutions. The result has been increased excitement as well as an objective understanding of what will best support the organization. The unique step in Zurich's process has been the creation of a large-scale dynamic pilot. Unlike most pilots, it was not a test of one design but of 4 different neighborhood configurations, 3 different team rooms, and dozens of different support settings and technologies. To maximize feedback, each group lived in one neighborhood for 3-4 weeks before rotating to another. Feedback was captured in real time through observations, surveys, and a helpdesk. Disruptions were minimized by a high-touch change management process. Participation was phenomenal! Over 80% responded to each survey. Outside interest was so high that weekly tours were scheduled. Many participants and non-participants alike posted comments expressing happiness with the rigor with which Zurich was approaching the workplace. Most importantly, the pilot generated a vast amount of data on how the workplace impacts productivity and satisfaction. Additionally quantitative measures weeded out numerous elements that failed. The dynamic pilot provided deep insights about culture, work patterns and a clear direction for the design of the new HQ.
Presentation: Are you Equipped for 2018 and Beyond?
Institute For the Future (IFTF) was recently named as one of the five most innovative, futuristic nonprofits by Fast Company magazine and are thought leaders in the future of work. One area of research focus centers on the workplace and new skills that will be necessary in 2018. Technological advances are constantly happening, but organizations can prepare for these changes by examining certain trends that could shape the future of work. IFTF builds on their ongoing research by developing a set of tools or skills that will help other organizations succeed in the changing world of work, such as self- motivation, managing time across income sources, and online labor market management. This panel will address IFTF's research findings on the future of work, and how organizations need to or are developing ways to adapt to change to create a greater competitive advantage.
Presentation: Drones: Fact, Fiction and the New Reality
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), also known as drones, are becoming commercialized. Businesses of all types have already started experimenting with the unmanned aircraft, all in the hope that the new technology will open new avenues for revenue and data. The real estate sector has started to find ways to use the flying devices, and although their use is still early, the results seem promising. This timely session will include a case study by Clayco which is one of the first FAA approved companies using drones on construction sites. You’ll have the opportunity to discover the latest insights from the CEO of a leading UAV supplier, legal discussion from a corporate real estate perspective, and a CRE service provider view. You’ll see how drones are being used to capture data, and you’ll hear from these experts on both the challenges and the exciting future of drones.
Presentation: A Global Portfolio - I Can See Clearly Now
You manage hundreds of buildings and have all metrics for square footage, seating capacity, utilization, costs of many types, critical lease dates, and so forth. It doesn’t mean a thing, unless the data is turned into actionable intelligence. This actionable intelligence becomes a beneficial disrupter to the typical decision-making process; the process now becomes faster, more detailed, and more fact-based. Intelligence changes the game. This presentation will review the goals, processes, and outcomes in the development of innovative dashboards and reports that have dynamic functionality; individual metrics and visualizations can be further explored to identify performance trends. The presentation will show that highly effective visual dashboards can be created using standard off-the-shelf software, eliminating the need for high cost packages, version updates, and customization.
Presentation: A Healthy Disruption: Workplace Sustainability
What's the biggest financial benefit of a strong energy and sustainability program? It's not energy savings or customer goodwill. It's the value of a healthy, engaged and productive workforce. Forward-thinking companies are creating sustainability programs that focus on employee wellness with new features in the workplace designed to foster healthy practices. In this session, panelists with experience in wellness and sustainability share examples of how these strategies have transformed companies' social fabric, and prompt audience members to discuss their experiences and obstacles to overcome in improving their organizational wellness, engagement and productivity.
Presentation: From the Field to the Boardroom: What Sports Science Can Teach Us about Engagement and Performance
Gallup reports: "Seven in 10 American workers are 'not engaged' or 'actively disengaged' in their work, meaning they are emotionally disconnected from their workplaces and less likely to be productive." This has a direct impact on your enterprise’s bottom line. For the last 45 years, strength coaches, athletic trainers, physical therapists, physiologists, psychologists, nutritionists and others have been studying how we can push ourselves to the limit. This session will discuss how sports science is helping to improve human performance through strategies that: engage the whole person, manage energy and recovery, enable stress reduction and fully realize and tap into the emotional, mental and physical needs of people. These strategies will backed up by research developed by the Human Performance Institute for their "Corporate Athletes" course, a science-based energy management course designed to strategically help participants become more productive and effective under pressure by managing their energy more effectively. The practical application of these strategies will be illustrated with case studies and will cover health, wellness and HR policies, incentives, workplace and real estate strategies and food provisioning.
Presentation: Sourcing: Making it a Win-Win
Every three to five years, corporate real estate end users review their existing provider contracts and make the choice to stay the course or test the market and consider a change. Influencing today's decisions to transform the provider environment goes beyond the supplier's ability to execute with 'skin-in-the-game'. Organizations are now demanding: a greater sense of innovation with regard to the tools and technology that provide visibility to management and support the tactical workflow the consultative resources to challenge existing processes and assess strategic portfolio considerations, and deep analytics and real time market intelligence What can providers do to align themselves with the ever evolving, and maturing, needs of the customer? And what can the organizations do to secure a successful award that will keep up with the rapid changes to CRE technology and innovation? 'Sourcing: how to make it a win-win' will explore examples of the established and emerging elements of the CRE procurement process, what's makes certain proposals more successful than others, and overall lessons learned from recent market efforts.
Presentation: What’s Changing? The Evolution of Global CRE Trends
Are you prepared for the future? Are you learning from your experiences and adapting to your environment, or are you locked into a path that is an inflexible as the physical real estate assets that you manage? Gain an unprecedented view into the current and future thinking of CRE executives spanning a seven-year period in this preview of JLL's third biennial Global Corporate Real Estate Trends report based on the survey responses from more than 500 CRE executives worldwide. You will examine the current state and future evolution of key trends that are defining the role of CRE. This includes integration of CRE with other internal support functions, acceleration of CRE outsourcing, increasing strategic pressures on the CRE function, and the impact of new 'shoring' strategies. This thought provoking session will help shape your decisions and real estate strategies to ensure future success.
Presentation: What Would Happen If We Were To...
An effort to consolidate and relocate various businesses will result in 10,000 earth scientists occupying ExxonMobil's new corporate campus north of downtown Houston. This mammoth undertaking began eight years ago with a simple question about what the real estate impact of consolidating selected business units. A five-step process was employed to outline ExxonMobil's program: Articulate strategy; Identify business facts; Identify requirements; Develop and evaluate viable options; and prepare a strategy and publish an actionable plan. Out of this deeply analytical approach grew the notion of three realms of work and the planning challenges at the heart of a new corporate campus model: Create the dynamism of an urban vibe. Promote the scale and collegiality of the campus. Stimulate the nurturing, restorative benefits of nature.This session will explore the evolutionary way in which a highly disciplined company now uses office space and its impact to ExxonMobil's real estate and workplaces across the globe.