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Paper: w78-1999-2517
| Paper title: | An investigation into the main information dimensions of corporate real estate management |
| Authors: | Lopes J L R |
| Summary: | The fragmentation of the construction and real estate sectors, and the information intensive character of their activities, makes it very difficult to select, store and transfer relevant information among its members. The volume and diversity of data in these sectors have been a hindrance for developing effective, integrated and standardised information systems for construction, building and real estate management. To overcome these problems at the level of strategic management of corporate real estate, a research was set to elicit the main information dimensions, or the main concerns, within the area. This research used as paradigms models that succeeded on defining and using the main dimensions of a particular subject matter, facilitating communications, decision-support and learning processes. Examples of these paradigms are the main factors of production in the theory of capital in economics, the balanced scorecard and the critical success factors in organisational management, the three dimensions in project management and Pena's (1987) main concerns for programming in architecture. The research consisted of a content analysis of seventy corporate real estate management (CREM) models used in industry and academia eliciting the main features (concepts, tools, techniques, methods) quoted on these models. Using classification techniques and supported by a literature review and expert interviews, these features were classified according to their nature, similarities and origin. The main dimensions resulting from this classification system provided the main information dimensions in CREM. These dimensions are financial, physical and human, each one divided in three classes, respectively. The financial dimension is divided in the classes rentability, business information and intelligence. The physical dimension is divided in the classes data, management and diagnosis. Finally, the human dimension is divided in the classes organisation, occupancy and customer. Examples of uses of the CREM framework are given. |
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| Year of publication: | 1999 |
| Series: | w78:1999 |
| ISSN: | 2706-6568 |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/w78-1999-2517.content.pdf |
| Citation: | Lopes J L R (1999). An investigation into the main information dimensions of corporate real estate management. Lacasse M A, Vanier D J (ed.); Information technology in construction, volume 4, ISBN 0-660-17743-9; Vancouver, May 30 - June 3, Canada (ISSN: 2706-6568), http://itc.scix.net/paper/w78-1999-2517 |
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