The Leader - January/February 2008 - (Page 24) U N itiN G sepa r a te pie ce s to cre ate a W ho le : s p ri Nt’ s mo s ai c p ro G ram requirements, alternative workspaces, shared/hotel seating ratios, limited building capacities, and vacancy. Analyses are based upon complete sets of building drawings and all associated utilization data and attributes to define a plan that would best meet all BU needs. Mosaic extends spatial intelligence capabilities to allow for the automated optimization of all of these elements of the portfolio. Its solutions achieve the greatest efficiencies among sets of buildings and individual floor plates. It also ensures businesses adjacencies are combined with efficiencies in floor space utilization to achieve optimal seating ratios. In addition, if a BU determines that a scenario does not meet its particular requirements, the planner can then change the scenario and quickly rebuild the entire plan. This is particularly useful given the dynamic business environment and real estate’s challenge to keep up with individual BU changes. The third and final stage of Mosaic is the Market Optimization Strategy (MOS) where the highest level of value manifests itself at the enterprise level. The value is established by strategy creation across all asset classes and lines of business and leverages each to achieve optimal solutions. MOS is based on a user defined geographic area (i.e. city, region, nation, etc). Analyses begin with information that is comprised of many sets of data including market, customer, business, facility and other specific criteria. The data sets are then aggregated and analyzed using sophisticated geospatial algorithms. This quickly produces multiple scenarios defining optimal solutions for three areas: (1) the number of facilities that should be deployed to maximize capital return (ROI), (2) what location best supports the business requirements, and; (3) what size they need to be to meet the needs of the specific BU functions. These scenarios are objective, fact based outputs that web-based interface, where all stakeholders can view the results, collaborate and make decisions in real time. With Mosaic, Sprint Enterprise Real Estate enjoys a significantly strengthened relationship with the BU’s who gain critical and high value solutions for their business while the enterprise gains substantial real estate value and speed to market. resUlts allow strategic direction to be set, and established a high confidence level in real estate’s capital/expense budgeting accuracy. An additional benefit of Mosaic is that it allows Sprint Enterprise Real Estate to collaborate with the BU’s. All information and potential scenarios are uploaded to a By utilizing the Space Optimization Strategy (SOS), Sprint Enterprise Real Estate experienced a dramatic reduction in move related IT errors in 2006. The early 2006 move related IT error rate was fairly high and there has been a steady decline in errors ever since. In addition, due to the implementation of the tablet pc and the sophistication of the data validation process, Sprint Enterprise Real Estate’s overall data accuracy rate for occupancy and utilization data is the best that it has ever been. The high levels of data accuracy in the SOS stage enable the Portfolio Optimization Strategy (POS) to efficiently manage portfolio vacancy. Sprint’s 2006 portfolio operating vacancy rate was high enough that it became ERE’s central focus. After engaging the Mosaic approach, the post merger operating vacancy rate was fully defined, the plan to reduce the square footage was established and then executed. The process of validation was sophisticated enough to ensure accuracy 2 0 0 8 the le ade r 24 J aN Ua rY / F e B rUa r Y
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