by David Mills on June 28, 2016
by David Mills on May 31, 2016
. . . or are you a long-divisionator? Seth Godin has a unique ability to distill issues and illuminate choices. When someone handed you a calculator for the first time, it meant that long division was never going to be required of you ever again. A huge savings in time, a decrease in the cognitive […]
Categories: Acquisitions & Dispositions, Age Shift, Banking & Finance, Benchmarks, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Communications, Information, & Entertainment, Compliance, Contract Services, Education, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Industry Segments, Infrastructure, Insurance, Investors, Land Development, Lease Administration, Manufacturing & Distribution, New Construction, Performance Management, Perspective, Portfolio Performance, Predictive Analytics, Property Tax, Regulatory, Relevance, Renovations, Repairs & Maintenance, Retail, Roundtable, SaaS, Social Media, Software, Specialized Knowledge Platforms, Spend Management, Stewardship, Subject Matter Expertise, Sustainability, Technology, Utilities & Telecom, Valuations, Visualization
Tags: corporate real estate, IP assets for sale, long-divisionator, M&A Advisors, Seth Godin, workplace
by David Mills on May 8, 2016
Today we are sending introductory information and requests to twenty leading firms providing merger, acquisition, and investment banking services. Our search and discovery identified who we thought were point communication contacts in each as well as thirty-five additional colleagues whose background, expertise and current practice appeared to be a fit with CREi needs and objectives. […]
Categories: Acquisitions & Dispositions, Age Shift, Banking & Finance, Benchmarks, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Communications, Information, & Entertainment, Compliance, Contract Services, Education, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Industry Segments, Infrastructure, Insurance, Investors, Land Development, Lease Administration, Manufacturing & Distribution, New Construction, Performance Management, Perspective, Portfolio Performance, Predictive Analytics, Property Tax, Regulatory, Renovations, Repairs & Maintenance, Retail, Roundtable, SaaS, Social Media, Software, Specialized Knowledge Platforms, Spend Management, Stewardship, Subject Matter Expertise, Sustainability, Technology, Utilities & Telecom, Valuations, Visualization
by David Mills on March 3, 2016
Redefining business success in a changing world 19th Annual Global CEO Survey January 2016 How to lead in complicated times? That’s the question all CEOs are seeking to answer at a time of prolonged and continuing uncertainty. As they look forward to the year ahead CEOs are less confident about prospects for the global economy […]
Categories: Acquisitions & Dispositions, Age Shift, Banking & Finance, Benchmarks, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Communications, Information, & Entertainment, Compliance, Contract Services, Education, Government, Healthcare, Industry Segments, Insurance, Investors, Land Development, Lease Administration, Manufacturing & Distribution, New Construction, Performance Management, Perspective, Portfolio Performance, Predictive Analytics, Property Tax, Regulatory, Renovations, Repairs & Maintenance, Retail, Roundtable, SaaS, Social Media, Software, Specialized Knowledge Platforms, Spend Management, Subject Matter Expertise, Sustainability, Technology, Utilities & Telecom, Visualization
Tags: CEOs, change, David Mills, Dennis Nally, PWC
by David Mills on June 24, 2015
We are thrilled to share the evolution and development of this eBook and give you the opportunity to participate at whatever level of engagement your interest compels. This campaign, being launched today, incorporates five ways for you and/or your company to participate and contribute to the book’s target publication in October of this year and […]
Categories: Acquisitions & Dispositions, Age Shift, Banking & Finance, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Communications, Information, & Entertainment, Compliance, Contract Services, Education, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Industry Segments, Infrastructure, Insurance, Investors, Land Development, Lease Administration, Manufacturing & Distribution, New Construction, Performance Management, Perspective, Portfolio Performance, Predictive Analytics, Property Tax, Regulatory, Relevance, Renovations, Repairs & Maintenance, Retail, Roundtable, SaaS, Software, Specialized Knowledge Platforms, Spend Management, Stewardship, Subject Matter Expertise, Sustainability, Technology, Utilities & Telecom, Valuations, Visualization
Tags: analytics, Business Intelligence, corporate real estate, Crowdfunding, David Everett Mills Jr, Hidden Opportunities, Indiegogo, James Larry Williams
by David Mills on June 16, 2015
According to PitchBook Newsletter today, Over the past year, more than 920 VC investors have participated in at least one seed stage investment, according to PitchBook’s database, with 1,480 rounds completed during the time-span worth a combined $1.73 billion. Unsurprisingly, software has accounted for by far the largest portion of the seed stage deal flow […]
Categories: Acquisitions & Dispositions, Age Shift, Banking & Finance, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Communications, Information, & Entertainment, Compliance, Contract Services, Education, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Industry Segments, Infrastructure, Insurance, Investors, Land Development, Lease Administration, Manufacturing & Distribution, New Construction, Performance Management, Perspective, Portfolio Performance, Predictive Analytics, Property Tax, Regulatory, Relevance, Renovations, Repairs & Maintenance, Retail, Roundtable, SaaS, Software, Specialized Knowledge Platforms, Spend Management, Stewardship, Subject Matter Expertise, Sustainability, Technology, Utilities & Telecom, Valuations, Visualization
Tags: corporate real estate, CREInFocus, David Everett Mills Jr, PitchBook, technology investments
by David Mills on June 9, 2015
We are living in a time of momentous change that is both exponential in nature and fired with velocity. The intersection of social media (targeted interests), crowdfunding platforms (targeted interests), and now regulatory change will fuel innovation like no other time in history. CREinFocus (CREi) is delighted to be at this intersection at this stage […]
Categories: Acquisitions & Dispositions, Age Shift, Banking & Finance, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Communications, Information, & Entertainment, Compliance, Contract Services, Education, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Industry Segments, Infrastructure, Insurance, Investors, Land Development, Lease Administration, Manufacturing & Distribution, New Construction, Performance Management, Perspective, Portfolio Performance, Predictive Analytics, Property Tax, Regulatory, Relevance, Renovations, Repairs & Maintenance, Retail, Roundtable, SaaS, Software, Specialized Knowledge Platforms, Spend Management, Stewardship, Subject Matter Expertise, Sustainability, Technology, Utilities & Telecom, Valuations, Visualization
Tags: Chase Cole, corporate real estate, CREInFocus, Crowdfunding, David Everett Mills Jr, equity investments, financial performance, LinkedIn groups, Waller Law
by David Mills on November 13, 2014
We are thrilled to welcome Leslie Hudson as Director of Business Development. Leslie brings a unique set of skills, experience and energy appropriate to the current stage of evolution of CREinFocus. It is unusual to meet an individual with a background of success in real estate development and sales, brand management, budgeting, business development, customer […]
Categories: Acquisitions & Dispositions, Age Shift, Banking & Finance, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Communications, Information, & Entertainment, Compliance, Contract Services, Education, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Industry Segments, Infrastructure, Insurance, Investors, Land Development, Lease Administration, Manufacturing & Distribution, New Construction, Performance Management, Perspective, Portfolio Performance, Predictive Analytics, Property Tax, Regulatory, Relevance, Renovations, Repairs & Maintenance, Retail, Roundtable, SaaS, Software, Specialized Knowledge Platforms, Spend Management, Stewardship, Subject Matter Expertise, Sustainability, Technology, Utilities & Telecom, Valuations, Visualization
Tags: analytics, big data, Business Intelligence, corporate real estate, CREInFocus, financial performance, Leslie Hudson, technology investments, transformation
by David Mills on August 22, 2014
The book, Fortune 500 Corporate Real Estate – Hidden Opportunities, is taking shape. A recent draft on the varying perspectives of participants in the space helps frame the discussion that follows. We are looking for contributors who can share their own perspectives on the evolution of the management of these formidable assets and operations, so […]
Categories: Acquisitions & Dispositions, Age Shift, Banking & Finance, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Communications, Information, & Entertainment, Compliance, Contract Services, Education, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Industry Segments, Infrastructure, Insurance, Investors, Land Development, Lease Administration, Manufacturing & Distribution, New Construction, Performance Management, Perspective, Portfolio Performance, Predictive Analytics, Property Tax, Regulatory, Relevance, Renovations, Repairs & Maintenance, Retail, Roundtable, SaaS, Software, Specialized Knowledge Platforms, Spend Management, Stewardship, Subject Matter Expertise, Sustainability, Technology, Utilities & Telecom, Valuations
Tags: corporate real estate, CREInFocus, David Everett Mills Jr, Hidden Opportunities
by David Mills on August 14, 2014
Post-it note simplicity. #Kathryn Reed Edge 1998 Capture and consolidate – measure and manage. #Ben Sloan 1998 Hidden opportunities. #Shaun Carrigan 2004 Enterprise finance offering. #Tom Hartshorn 2004 Single source of truth. #Larry Barkley 2008 Objectivity and relativity. #Mark Nicholls 2013 Bloomberg for corporate real estate. #Brett Nelson 2014 Subscribe to our blog to what’s […]
Categories: Acquisitions & Dispositions, Age Shift, Banking & Finance, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Communications, Information, & Entertainment, Compliance, Contract Services, Education, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Industry Segments, Infrastructure, Insurance, Investors, Land Development, Lease Administration, Manufacturing & Distribution, New Construction, Performance Management, Perspective, Portfolio Performance, Predictive Analytics, Property Tax, Regulatory, Relevance, Renovations, Repairs & Maintenance, Retail, Roundtable, SaaS, Software, Specialized Knowledge Platforms, Spend Management, Stewardship, Subject Matter Expertise, Sustainability, Technology, Utilities & Telecom, Valuations, Visualization
Tags: Business Intelligence, corporate real estate, CREInFocus, SaaS, transformation