Consulting Services
Frequently clients are faced with dramatic changes in their internal organizational structure, unexpected downsizing as well as growth organically or through mergers and acquisitions. GVA Consulting Services are designed to help our clients to navigate un-chartered waters or to improve existing processes.
Many of the challenges and trends facing today’s corporate real estate executive are the inevitable result of the maturing of the shared services model of purchasing and CRE. How do you know as an organization that you are getting the value of centralizing corporate real estate functions? Today’s CRE executive is accountable to the execution of the business unit’s agenda like never before. How can the CRE executive therefore, make the right recommendations to the business unit, managing the ongoing disconnect between a client’s need for flexibility and the institutional investor’s need for cash flow?
Through our consulting services, we explore together:
- Creating a road map for the life span on a facility, whether it is a corporate campus or a critical special purpose asset. This includes understanding the GAAP impact before a new real estate asset is acquired. We help you know the exit strategy going in.
- Developing effective decision making procedures in the CRE environment examining which procedures are most efficient and ultimately creating a template for effective decision making.
- How does Sarbanes Oxley effect the decision making process? Now that compliance is already “old news”, what are the lessons learned? Best practices boil down to process, checks and balances. How can we work together to identify the processes that have the greatest and least financial risks?
- Mergers and acquisitions due diligence – the integration of two portfolios – and two cultures- may be a smooth transition or a difficult one. We help to develop a proactive checklist of M&A tools to better identify critical data and discover ways to minimize integration costs, meet critical SEC reporting benchmarks and successfully create a new facility model to enhance the strengths of the newly formed organization.
- What are meaningful benchmarks for your business? It is easy to measure costs, it is difficult to measure the impact of cause and effect relationships. We examine the effect of human capital as a factor of production, expectations management, and successful workplace changes. While many of these ideas seem intangible, the upside of better productivity may dwarf the impact of comparably marginal real estate savings.
- Relocation of staff to more cost effective locations. Whether it is outsourcing or off-shoring employees, we look at the real estate impact of these critical HR decisions.
- Sustainability – when will the “green” work environment become more of a force in the CRE standards we are establishing?
- Energy costs and their impact on the bottom line – we can work to identify energy management plans that help reduce the effect of the long term vulnerability cost fluctuations bring.
The fact is that your consulting needs are varied, each industry and issue demanding a unique focus. We work with you to get answers where you need them most.