Knowledge Network
Corporate Portfolio Analytics’ unique research and development platform includes monthly research briefs, periodic webinars, and facilitated discussion groups among our clients regarding best practices and new analytic tools, as well as an annual Partnership Conference.
Corporate Portfolio Analytics’ unique research and development platform includes monthly research briefs, periodic webinars, and facilitated discussion groups among our clients regarding best practices and new analytic tools, as well as an annual Partnership Conference.
Monthly thought pieces on relevant strategic portfolio planning issues are delivered by Corporate Portfolio Analytics Principals and other leading business thinkers. These in-depth Research Briefs provide clients with pointed analysis on topical and current issues across the commercial real estate landscape. The concepts covered are broadly applicable and have been beneficial for senior executives, business line managers, commercial real estate professionals and government officials alike. Recent topics include:
- Corporate Real Estate and the New Economic Reality: Outcomes of the Great Recession
- Corporate Real Estate “Buyer Power” Still Increasing
- Jobs Shed More Quickly Than Real Estate: Excess Space Hangover
- Simplifying the Message: How to Best Present an Integrated Corporate Real Estate Portfolio Strategy to Senior Management.
Webinar Learning Sessions
Corporate Portfolio Analytics delivers three webinars per year, designed for strategic information exchange and staff development. Webinars are often delivered in case study format by Corporate Portfolio Analytics Managing Directors and may feature outside lecturers as well.
Each December, our Directors present our annual Economic and Real Estate Market Outlook Webinar. Other recent webinars have included Alternative Work Strategies, Customer Relationship Management, and Metro Planning.
Partner Discussion Groups
Corporate Portfolio Analytics Place Strategy Partners share experiences, raise issues, and brainstorm with one another during regularly scheduled conference calls on leading industry topics. Corporate Portfolio Analytics Managing Directors typically lead discussions, but Place Strategy Partners sometimes host calls as well. Because Discussion Groups include a limited number of end-users with repeat exposure to one another, participants develop a high level of trust that engenders candid conversations.
Currently, the most active discussion group has focused on Alternative Workplace Strategies (AWS). Specific topics have included: goals and results from AWS pilot programs, costs and benefits of AWS implementation, making the business case to the C-Suite, and maintaining a common culture and connection with mobile workers.
Participants can request specific topic areas to be covered and may receive coaching from Corporate Portfolio Analytics Managing Directors on or after the call. The annual Client Conference, held at Harvard University in Cambridge MA, also provides an exclusive opportunity for further informal Partner conversations.
Training Services
Corporate Portfolio Analytics Directors and staff have experience organizing and presenting a wide variety of training sessions and interactive discussions. From brainstorming a variety of housing scenarios with a diverse group of asset managers and business line representatives to training executive-level real estate professionals, we can customize seminar content and objectives to meet your groups’ needs. One of our flagship training offerings, Portfolio Planning Platform Audit and Training, is described in more detail in the Portfolio Resources section.
Though all Directors have provided training, Martha O’Mara has extensive experience developing and providing executive real estate training programs to leading corporations and the government. Dr. O’Mara has also served as a Lecturer and Professor of Real Estate at Harvard University and frequently lectures at CoreNet and other leading industry conferences.