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August 19, 2008 - Vol. 7, No. 22 |
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Oklahoma City Professional Forum Updates
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- IAMC's Fall 2008 Professional Forum in Oklahoma City, entitled, "Managing Global Real Estate: Navigating a New Professional and Economic Landscape" happens September 13-17, 2008. Register online.
- IAMC has room blocks at the historic Skirvin Hilton and Colcord Hotels. Please call to check availability and reserve a room today.
- Attention Professional Forum speakers, moderators, panelists & discussion leaders. Please plan to attend Patricia Fripp's training program on Sunday, Sept. 14, from 1:30 - 4:00 p.m. in the Skirvin Hilton Hotel.
- Have you considered IAMC's Leadership Seminar? To learn more about it and to check for openings, click here. Darin Buelow**, Deloitte Consulting, will present the program "Leadership in Corporate Real Estate Management: Adopting a Strategic Orientation."
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Conde Nast says "...the 12-story Colcord has been meticulously restored into a sophisticated boutique hotel with a celebrated past. ...this elegant hotel combines historic décor with classic modern style." The Colcord and Skirvin Hilton Hotels are headquarters for the Oklahoma City Professional Forum. |
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"Get Some Help" Forum Program Gets New Moderator for Oklahoma City
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Bill Pearson moderating
Get Some Help in St. Louis. | The Oklahoma City edition of IAMC's popular "Get Some Help" takes place during the Tinker Air Force Base excursion the afternoon of Tuesday, September 16. The questions that will be used in this fast-paced Q&A-format session have just been collected from a panel of IAMC Active members. And adding to the interest and value the program typically generates, Charles McSwain, CSX, past chair of IAMC's board of directors, will be taking his first turn in Oklahoma City as Get Some Help moderator. He joins the team of Rick Little, Weyerhaeuser; Melissa Bauer; Bill Pearson, BASF; and Jim Harbaugh, Bristol-Myers Squibb, who have led past sessions. To get a feel for "Get Some Help," read Jack Lyne's article "Helping Hands" from the November 2007 IAMC Dispatch Newsletter. |
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Helping Companies Meet their Environmental Goals - ISO 14001
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed the certification ISO 14001 indicating that the company holding it has environmental management systems (EMS) enabling it to achieve and maintain its environmental standards. ISO's Web site says,"An EMS meeting the requirements of ISO 14001:2004 is a management tool enabling an organization of any size or type to: identify and control the environmental impact of its activities, products or services, and to improve its environmental performance continually, and to implement a systematic approach to setting environmental objectives and targets, to achieving these and to demonstrating that they have been achieved." According to the article "LEED and ISO 14001 Can Help Improve Environmental Performance," "The standard [ISO 14001] outlines five concepts that can help facility executives develop a process to improve performance on environmental issues. Those five concepts [are] aspect, impact, objective, target and significant aspect...." The article suggests companies might use the LEED and ISO 14001 certifications in tandem to accelerate progress toward their environmental goals.
The Oklahoma City Professional Forum Research Roundtable program, "Moving up the Sustainability Learning Curve," will touch briefly on ISO 14001, present sustainability-program case examples from PepsiCo and Wyeth, and offer lots of table-group discussion time for participants to compare their "green programs" to these two companies. Research Roundtable is open only to Active members. |
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Find a Real Estate Job; Post an Opening; Post a Resume
 Go to the IAMC Career Center to read about dozens of corporate real estate, economic development and real estate service provider jobs. Here's an example: Real Estate Manager - Corporate for Baker Hughes, Inc. The position description says the incumbent "assists operating divisions in analyzing office and warehouse requirements, develops creative solutions for real estate needs, performs buy/lease analysis for real estate choices, negotiates sales transactions and lease terms with landlords or tenants," among other responsibilities.
Post a job on Career Builder.com through IAMC Notes and we will feature that job in one weekly edition of Notes. Looking seriously? Post your resume by clicking here. |
Short Subjects
Report: Industrial Markets Softer at Mid-year
- U.S. industrial real estate markets are beginning to reflect the slowing in the overall economy. Colliers International's mid-year report says, "With second quarter data showing a considerable deceleration in manufacturing and mixed economic signals at best, the U.S. industrial market is sure to post relatively modest results in the coming quarters. For the balance of 2008, rising vacancy and relatively weak leasing conditions are expected to endure with only exports keeping demand in certain markets in the black."
"Lean Manufacturing" Needs Better IT Tools
With U.S. factories looking to retool for the next business upswing, "lean manufacturing" (LM) is on everyone's planning board. Traditional manufacturing pushes product out to be sold. Lean manufacturing, in principle, makes product to fill orders. The processes are completely different. In "IT needs to get lean on manufacturing," Ephraim Schwartz finds that the IT community is not yet well equipped to support LM. He writes, "Manufacturing has traditionally been a push system. Up until lean, business analysts would forecast demand, and manufacturers would ship products to market based on those forecasts. Unsold goods would sit in the warehouse or distribution center either waiting to get into the pipeline or never to be sold due to a missed forecast." He quotes Narayan Laksham as saying, "Unfortunately, there is a gap between planned orders versus actual demands from customers. As the shop floor adjusts to real demand, the MRP [manufacturing resource planning] schedules are no longer in synch. On every MRP run, these schedules are readjusted, and supplier orders are changed, causing whiplashes across the supply chain."
** Read the article "The Original Melting Pot" by Adam Bruns for an interesting interview with Darin Buelow on doing business in Turkey. |
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