A Conversation With Richard Florida
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Richard Florida
Source: www.creativeclass.com |
"If you thought a mobile work force was challenging your company or public agency, you might want to read Richard Florida’s new book. The challenge is only beginning. In Who’s Your City?, the renowned author, speaker and professor reconfigures conventional thinking on corporate site selection and economic development by noting that mobile workers are dictating an accelerated pace of global change," writes IAMC Executive Director Ron Starner.
Read his article.
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| Michael Redding |
UMS Advisory, Inc., is one of several brand new Associate members. Managing Director Michael Redding represents the company in IAMC. To find out who the other new members are, click here.
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Here are this month's topics. Click here to peruse the articles, including links to the original sources.
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| Working at home; but is she happy?Source: www.smallbizpod.co.uk/.../ |
- Big companies curb telecommuting.
- Three financially focused articles tell about
- what the Fed may do next,
- tight commercial mortgage credit, and
- CMBS quality issues.
- How to locate facilities so they integrate with the supply chain
- Red tape, weak legal protections, corruption - a global site search tool for avoiding them
- Occupancy cost management - a refresher on this fundamental CREM capability
- Effective real estate capital asset management requires good software and broad support of management across the company.
- Manufacturing is forecast to grow in 2008, but slowly.
- Top-10 economic development organizations excel at attracting jobs.
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Phoenix Professional Forum
Program Reports
Read these three and then look for more Phoenix Forum articles and presentation slides at Ebriefings on IAMC's Web site.
- No Sleeping Here: 'Operating Leases Will Be Dead,' Says Accounting Expert
What's happening is nothing less than a sea change - in this case, an overseas change - from the rule-based accounting principles behind FASB's SFAS Rule 13 that most U.S. real estate directors are familiar with, toward a convergence with the principle-based standards of the International Accounting Standards Board in what will be known as the "International Guidance IAS 17" guideline. Click here.
- Deregulation: Unleashed 'Genie' Still Searching for Magic
"It's difficult to put the genie back in the bottle," workshop moderator John Occhipinti, vice president of Energy Americas, The Linde Group, said of U.S. utility deregulation. The unleashed genie of deregulation, however, hasn't provided the magic elixir that many industrial firms initially hoped for. Click here..
- Peer Group Pressures ... For Insights and Answers
The P2P workshops have consistently ranked among IAMC's most popular, owing to the process and the parties that are assembled. By bringing top CRE executives together with economic developers and service providers, the face-to-face gatherings invariably focus on the nitty-gritty of day-to-day operations. Click here.
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| One of over 20 Peer-to-Peer discussions that occurred at the Phoenix Forum |
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We extend a grateful and gracious thank you to the Phoenix Professional Forum sponsors.
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To read about new and expanded facilities and other projects of these member organizations, click here.
- Aramark
- 3M
- Air Products and Chemicals
- Pfizer
- BD (formerly Becton, Dickinson and Co.)
- Wyeth
- Merck
- GlaxoSmithKline
- AstraZeneca
- ProLogis and San Joaquin Partnership
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| Grand opening of BD's new plant in Suzhou, China |
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