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We are using our Value Release Model "VRM" on a number of projects to help clients forecast and project the type of workspace required for their future operational needs.

Specifically, we are looking to improve their business performance and output through optimising or aligning the need and nature of the workspace with their style of operation.

This has produced an opportunity to shift the thinking about what is possible in the organisation and to allow staff engagement at an early stage in the process. We are measuring the financial impacts in terms of:

  • Occupational efficiency
  • Cash Position
  • EBITDA

This means that our clients are involved in the identification of new ideas and new ways of working to be effective in the development of totally new and different accommodation models to that envisaged based on a traditional linear
space planning approach.

Why is this important...?

Understanding the future operational needs helps identify options for evaluation that provide sustainable, efficient and cost effective solutions. It helps your organisation to prepare for change, operationally and culturally and financially and therefore our process provides added value to your organisation and stakeholders beyond the traditional transaction based approach to property decisions.

By establishing and finessing your future requirements at an early stage, it enables a focus of resources based on need and thereby saves time by managing the process more effectively and to optimise the long term property cost and risk.

We have identified opportunities to reduce the cost of property holdings by up to 50% which has equated to millions of pounds back to the "bottom line".

Why the role of property in business is changing

Forward thinking organisations are now looking at property usage to deliver their business strategy more effectively and smarter.

The focus is on property and associated resource is now to provide the individual or team with the optimum level of facilities needed to support them in their business function.

Property solutions often ignore the effective people and change. The Midas Value Release Model "VRM" addresses the issue of staff disenfranchisement as old office and operating structures disappear.

Space planning is the low hanging fruit

Midas believes the key issue to improving business performance through property is to understand the underlying future business need. Getting this assessment right will:

  • Provide your organisation with long term competitive advantage
  • Impact the financial performance of the business today
  • Eliminate unnecessary cost and waste
  • Lead to a sustainable operating model
  • Reduce your space utilisation and hence "Carbon Footprint"

Our VRM enables you to think clearly about your future operational needs and to establish your real brief of property requirements. It allows you to fully inform your financial, operational, procurement decision making and delivery process and manage risk.

It is often this part which is most difficult for senior managers at the "coal face" managing Business as Usual and this is where our independent process is of value to you enabling the best long term solution to be identified in a manageable way.

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