One size (property) solutions no longer work

We now need elastic buildings

Landlords and Bosses face the same dilemmas

It is all about choice and flexibility

Existing playbooks are obsolete

Commercial property faces huge disruption

CRE Advisor

Leading an estates, facilities, property, or workplace team today is a very demanding role, one has to face up to the unique and unprecedented challenges of a rapidly changing world of work and the workplace (property).

Chris Kane and Associates offer clients an unusual blend of people and property skills coupled with genuine hands-on practical experience . This is delivered through out unique CRES proposition.

Author & Speaker

As the author of Where is my Office and a variety of other publications and blogs Chris provides his unique perspective on a rapidly changing world of work, the workforces and workplaces.

Chris Kane

Non Executive Director

  • Over 25 years experience as a non executive Board Member across a range of sectors has equipped Chris with the ability to apply a strategic perspective to facilities, property and construction issues.
  • Deep experience in workplace strategy, place making and supply chain optimisation.
  • Extensive knowledge of the property industry as both a client and a provider and across public and private sectors.
  • Long term advocate for the need to better understand the relationship between people and place.
Strategy and Place – still illuminating

Strategy and Place – still illuminating

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...

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Pondering on Different Perspectives

Pondering on Different Perspectives

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...

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Wembley: A national gem gets a polish

Wembley: A national gem gets a polish

To most people Wembley will always be the arena of so many glorious moments in English and even world sporting history – the site of the first post-war Olympics in 1948, that unforgettable 1966 England World Cup victory, numerous football Cup Finals - as well as...

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