After you complete your strategic planning session, you might want to consider a Strategic Facilities Plan as it provides research, facility capital and operating cost details and consulting advice on how to implement your plan.
WHERE YOU’VE BEEN – In order to help you make sound decisions, you need a facility information system for your existing buildings as a starting point. By analyzing your current facility costs and space usage versus benchmarks, you will learn how efficiently your current facilities are performing and what “lessons learned” can be applied in the planning of new facilities.
WHERE YOU’RE HEADED – Multiple staff (and consequently space) projection methods are used to reinforce the point that future office space needs will be within a range and that the final plan should adequately address both the high and low end of the projection range. Building upon a range of office and Branch space and cost projections, the Labarre team populates a financial analysis model that projects the Income Statement, Balance Statement and key ratios across a 15-year time period. By analyzing different scenarios, or different approaches to construction, we can incorporate your team’s feedback about how to adjust spending, timing or project scope, so that you can achieve financial objectives.
HOW TO GET THERE – We’ve set up the Strategic Facility Planning process to allow you the maximum learning and testing potential. In each of the project phases, we integrate your performance data in a white paper that explains the background and “ins-and-outs” of a particular planning subject. Some have commented that going through the Strategic Facilities Planning Process is like taking a graduate level classes in Facility Planning, Real Estate Location Analysis and Financial Forecasting. We take the comment as a complement. Since you may be spending tens of millions of dollars over the next 15 years, we feel you would like your team to have a thorough knowledge of each subject.
DECISION SUPPORT – OUR APPROACH – Strategic Facility Planning is unique in that it requires the disciplines of Architecture, Construction, Real Estate and Business Planning to work together in an interactive feedback loop environment. After your team has digested your numbers and the supporting background information, we meet with your team to discuss each topic, answer questions and incorporate your feedback and recommendations into the plan. We provide information, expertise and analysis necessary for you to make the investment decisions that are crucial to your long term success. As the process concludes, we work with you in developing appropriate presentations for the Board and other review groups, including auditors.
While the Strategic Facility Planning team at Labarre draws expertise from the company’s four divisions (Architecture, Construction, Real Estate and Facilities), Strategic Facility Planning services are stand alone; that is, if there are any future Real Estate, Architecture, Construction or Facility projects, we expect to compete for those jobs based on qualifications and experience.
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