Real Estate in Corporate Strategy

Type	Book, Whole
Author(s)	Weatherhead,M.
Publication year	1997
Notes	ID: WEATHERHEAD1997; A comprehensive review, likely to already be on many bookshelves. Weatherhead writes, firstly for those who would make business real estate management a board issue and secondly those who might aspire to be on such boards in the future. The emphasis is on value and the buy / lease decision in times of low inflation rather than on the direct impact of the built environment on the business process. Hence a series of valuable case studies, including the beginnings of IBM's reduction of property costs, and implementation of flexible workspaces as a response to their busines problems between 1990 and 1992 are treated as a cost/asset issue (and probably were at the time). Ten years on those same offices become a knowledge and productivity issue and IBM is reconceived as a different company.$$ $$
Start page	1
End page	312
Relevance to practice	High as reference
Ease of application	Varies
Stage of application	Varied
Evidence base	High
Readability	High

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