Supported by a proven account management program and robust technology platforms, CIS helps
create both the overall real estate strategy and the road map to the desired future state. We
help clients achieve transformational change in the way real estate is viewed by and used by
their organizations. Locally, regionally and globally, C&W’s approach promotes consistency,
transparency and compliance within each discipline through the following key operating
philosophies:
- Understanding our clients’ business drivers, culture, critical success factors, real estate
delivery processes and technology systems across all required services.
- Creating an Account Team with the technical and geographic expertise to respond to those
portfolio requirements.
- Delivering services through an integrated platform that leverages our 13,000 professionals
worldwide, applying processes and technology to create maximum efficiency, service delivery
improvement and economies of scale.
Account Management
CIS brings a well developed Account Management approach, providing an integrated service
platform to support our client’s corporate real estate goals. Built around an empowered Account
Executive, our account teams deliver services that are distinguished by control, consistency,
quality and creative solutions. With a clear understanding of a client’s objectives, an Account
Executive designs strategies around both business and real estate opportunities, provides
integrated service, and ensures superior delivery and client satisfaction. Account Management
services include portfolio strategy, technology solutions, best practice development,
performance management and continual improvement. Well-developed governance programs bring
C-Suite priorities to the real estate discussion, creating documented alignment of
organizational, operational, financial and compliance goals. FUSION, our client portal,
connects client’s entire real estate portfolio through a single portal. With intuitive
dashboards and powerful collaboration tools, FUSION is a catalyst for making informed real
estate decisions.
Transaction Management
CIS’s Transaction Management program provides comprehensive, portfolio-wide space acquisition
and disposition services. Transaction managers deliver responsive and innovative service using
process documents that capture best practices and augment existing client processes. By giving
our employees accurate and consistent direction, we effectively align to clients’ desired
outcomes and KPI metrics. Transaction managers work in concert with C&W’s industry-leading
brokers around the world to leverage their experience, market knowledge, and bottom-line
approach, resulting in transactions that drive business value and safeguard clients’ best
interests. Our consistent and sophisticated research and analytics ensures clients make the
most informed real estate decision.
Project Management
Project Management provides construction and portfolio oversight services for commercial office
development, corporate headquarters, financial centers, high technology, hospitality,
government and educational facilities. C&W project management professionals deliver value
through rigorous cost management and value engineering, adherence to project schedules,
assurance of quality, risk mitigation and economies of scale through leveraged procurement.
Specific services include strategic planning and workplace re-engineering consultation,
build-to-suit management, mission critical facilities development management, tenant
improvements construction management, relocation management and transaction consulting.
Facilities Management
Facilities Management provides comprehensive services for corporate occupiers, using
best-in-class processes, procedures, and technology. We create and maintain safe and highly
productive work environments that balance costs, manage and mitigate operational risk, and
achieve client Corporate Social Responsibility goals through progressive sustainability and
energy management programs. Facilities Management services include staff selection and
training, procurement and vendor management, building operations, predictive, preventative and
recurring maintenance, performance benchmarking, financial management and office support
services.
Lease Administration
C&W’s Lease Administration programs provide our clients with unbiased advice in the
selection and implementation of world-class technologies and the ongoing maintenance of
databases. This helps our clients manage their real estate assets proactively and
progressively, enabling them to control leasehold expenditures through aggressive management of
critical dates and options, monthly rent reviews and annual operating expense audits. We help
clients develop strategic plans that align with the business by providing access to detailed
real estate data. We add value by transforming data into meaningful management information to
support improved decision making. Services include portfolio reporting, accounts receivable
billing and collections, invoice review and payment processing, compliance reviews for
Estoppels, SNDAs and Certificates of Insurance, critical date and option management, document
abstraction and data entry.