by Chris | Mar 29, 2021 | Agile Working, BBC Estate story, Facility Management, Future of Work, Real Estate, Reflections, Smart Spaces & Places, Where is my Office?, Workplace Renaissance, Workplace Strategy
Making Sense of the Noise Making sense of all the noise out there about the future of the office and work gives me a headache and I don’t think I’m the only one with a sore head! Participating in a recent Workplace Evolutionaries webinar with the very ‘rock n...
by Chris | Jul 22, 2019 | Corporate Real Estate, Facility Management, Workplace Strategy
Twenty years ago, I found myself balancing a demanding role at the Walt Disney Company whilst completing my studies for an MBA and as part of my research I came across Martha O’Mara’s insightful book ‘Strategy and Place’. It was a pioneering effort which she began...
by Chris | Jun 25, 2019 | Corporate Real Estate, Facility Management, Uncategorized, Workplace Strategy
A recent Twitter exchange amongst fellow workplace travellers prompted me to mull on the question of perspectives. This led to those great existential questions: Why don’t we see things in the same light? How come we have different perspectives even on the same...
by Chris | Mar 31, 2019 | Corporate Real Estate, Facility Management, FM futures, Place Making, Workplace Strategy
Having bumped into an old friend and professional colleague at an industry event recently I was transported back in time to when we were both young surveyors in London in the late 1980s. Reflecting back on those heady days as I approached my 30’s in 1989, me an...
by Chris | Nov 30, 2016 | Corporate Real Estate, Facility Management, FM futures, Uncategorized
January 2004 was a big month for me. It marked the start of my new role at the BBC where I became global head of Corporate Real Estate (CRE). Since getting involved with the consumer side of the real estate industry almost 30 years ago I have focused on becoming...
by Chris | Nov 2, 2016 | Articles, Beyond the Workplace, Corporate Real Estate, Facility Management, FM futures, Future of Work, Place Making, The Workplace Conversation, Workplace Strategy
When Alice steps through the looking glass, she finds a strange mysterious world. Lots of things look familiar, but nothing is quite as it seems. It’s an alternative universe… where things are contrary to the real world… where things are not as they should...
