Corporates

Future-Ready Corporate
Real Estate Management

The current business landscape demands agile, digital, and change leadership like never before, with hybrid work, ESG reporting, energy, and supply chain constraints posing significant challenges.

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Our CREM Clients

TME Associates is the management consulting firm for corporates and asset holders. Our clients, typically international, are as diverse as our assignments. We accompany CREM departments in various industries, such as financial services, technology companies, retail, aviation, logistics, automotive, as well as traditional manufacturing companies.

Whatever your industry, our global team has the expertise to help you navigate the complexities of corporate real estate management and achieve your business objectives.

Review: A Dynamic Decade

Effective real estate management is constantly evolving and becoming more complex. Since 2010, companies have been facing unprecedented shifts in the marketplace. Today, it's not just about the physical buildings, but also about creating value for internal clients, companies, and investors. At TME, we  understand the importance of generating value holistically and offer an all-encompassing approach that challenges traditional strategies and finds new ways to work with stakeholders.

However, CREM faces a range of challenges, including strained financial markets, increasing demand for sustainability, and the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Disruptions to established supply chains, energy and natural resource uncertainties, and volatile interest rates further complicate matters.

To succeed in the 2020s, CREM must respond to these exogenous changes, find answers despite uncertainties, and evolve from a shareholder to a stakeholder manager. This also means making the historically grown real estate portfolio and service structures more flexible and consolidated. TME supports CREM become a winner in the 2020s by restoring its delivery capability despite the challenges and lack of internal resources.

Real Estate in Corporate Strategy

Once companies consider how real estate operations affect the workforce, environment, and investors holistically, service models, designs, and management styles begin to shift. Top management expects proactive answers to three key questions:

Hybrid Portfolio

How can CREM catch up on the backlog of space provision regarding flexibility, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness, and adequately reflect future dynamics?

Toolbox for C-Suite

How can CREM integrate real estate (people, space, service, and IT) into the overall corporate strategy and accurately reflect the dynamics of the core business?

Co2-Footprint

How can CREM economically transform the existing portfolio towards carbon neutrality?

CREM AGENDA FOR THE 2020s

The status quo in CREM is facing significant challenges that require immediate attention. As we enter the new decade, there is a growing need for companies to re-evaluate their approach to real estate management.

Future-Proof Facilities

Workforce availability and resilience is impacting supply chains and the businesses they serve. New materials, designs, and technologies are enabling us to adapt to changes in workforce availability while preserving natural resources. This will continue to shape the business environments where, how, and when we work, and create new value for customers and investors.

Risk-Adjusted Budgeting

Financial modeling is becoming more sophisticated. We consider the impact that efficiency requirements, decarbonizing activities, and the increasingly complex landscape will have on balance sheets and forecasts. These considerations will shift risk-adjusted business logic into the foreground.

Digitalized Performance Management

With increased attention from top management and the need for global networking of the ecosystem, CREM must adopt an active and digitized performance management approach that eliminates perceived quality parameters and enforces a stringent target system. This will provide unparalleled fiscal efficiency, service and value.

Agile and Adaptive Structures

A company’s transformation is shaped by how it is managed and supported. We are introducing agile spaces, structures, and systems, sparking new ways of working across companies, industries, and continents. By enabling greater flexibility both through agile space and support systems, it becomes a catalyst for adaptability throughout the company.

Active Transformation

CREM must become a navigator of global asset and service transformation, dealing with the challenges posed by the dynamic environment of the last decade and beyond.

From Operational to Steering CREM

As transformation processes become more complex, CREM employees need to develop new skills, shifting from operational activities to steering tasks to ensure optimal performance in a resource-scarce environment.

Forward-thinking leaders in corporate real estate management are excited about the future and the opportunities it holds. By developing a strategically aligned plan to present to top executives, adopting a holistic mindset, and fostering trusted relationships with advisors and service managers, you can position yourself and your company for success by 2030.

Transformation through
Organizational Development and Digitalization

The dynamic environment of the past decade is expected to continue in the future, which presents a challenge to find stable navigators for short, medium, and long-term decisions. In this VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world, the global transformation of assets and associated services from a CREM perspective is complex.

Our experience shows that decentralized actions yield adverse financial results.  Process partners  in this complex global task often lack the perspective to make decisions at this scale and the authority to do so. As a result, the organization cannot view itself holistically because facility systems are not interconnected across locations, regions, and continents.

To bridge this gap, the CREM Agenda for the 2020s will be to:

  • Capitalize on digital advances
  • Upskill the workforce
  • Secure global partnerships
  • Streamline information systems

Vision for 2030

Our goal is to elevate your CREM team to the forefront of the industry by delivering exceptional results for your internal clients and investors. We will work with you to achieve this by building strong partnerships with expert service providers on a global scale and implementing advanced project and portfolio management methods. Your company will benefit from our strategies, partnerships, and field advances, and become a leader in strategic decision-making and operations.

Organizational development and digitalization are key enablers of transformation. Through development and cutting-edge technology, we empower your team to generate value, drive business growth, and deliver outstanding results. After all, only when CREM is working efficiently can it deliver services efficiently .

Operational Excellence: Continuous Improvement

TME guides companies toward increasing levels of personal, operational, and investment performance, starting from day one. This process requires mutual curiosity, trust, cooperation, and personal development to reach the results our clients expect. In other words: continuous improvement is the key to transformational results.

TME: Your Partner in finding the Best SolutionLink

Our global team of experts consider each company's unique culture, structure and history. Then develops comprehensive, integrated plans tailored to develop each client’s potential.

Strategy

We develop clear strategies and enable transparent processes aligned with your company’s goals.

Partnership

We develop real estate and organizational timelines, service partnerships, and activations across the globe to provide well managed negotiations, transactions, facilities and portfolios.

Productivity

We focus on improving productivity through digitalization, ongoing development of relationships, professional skills, and new ways of working.

Outsourcing

We harmonize service provider models and service levels across the globe for managing facilities, contracts, transactions, and portfolios.

Sustainability

We support sustainability through strategy, implementation, and operations, including ESG data models, reporting, energy procurement, and more.

Operational Support

We offer an extended workbench along the entire value chain, including facility management, real estate controlling, auditing, space search and planning, and project management.

Holistic Guidance

We consider the stakeholders impacted by real estate decisions – from building users to investors and the communities that support them – and provide a full range of services, from strategy and concept to operate, pilot, and roll out across global portfolio

The TME Fields of Competence

With its six areas of expertise, TME Associates is uniquely positioned to meet the broad range of challenges that corporate real estate management presents:

Investment Advisory

Alternative investments are becoming increasingly important to meet investor expectations. With our international expertise in structures and regulations, we support our clients in product strategy, provider selection and management of holistic investments.

Portfolio Transformation

Changes like hybrid/flexible work, sustainability regulations, and supply chain shifts require new, blended thinking in portfolio management. We support clients with portfolio management guidance and workplace strategy through operational transformation - without conflicts of interest.

Performance & Agility

Driving quality outcomes, performance targets and international agility is even more important in challenging times. We develop cutting-edge international real estate management strategies for growth, value creation, productivity and cultural change in times of change and transformation.

Customer Centric Services

Customer-focused services such as property & facility management are driven by outsourcing, bundling and modern provider models. We support clients in the global management of their portfolios, from outsourcing and tenders to operational management tools. We take partnering to a new level.

Sustainability

Paying attention to compliance with market regulations with compliant impacts that enhance sustainable stability and performance is increasingly vital. We achieve long-term impact and competitive advantages through appropriate ESG/sustainability strategies, product diversification and suitable retrofitting integration. In doing so, we support our clients to achieve sustainable measures and smart solutions.

Digitalization

Having a holistic view of efficient and effective processes, tools and systems brings the right players together and enables new business models. We have our finger on the pulse of market development and innovation. We design, optimize, and implement digital transformation for our clients so everyone is aligned and efficient.