Developing a property strategy for a high-tech manufacturing company that delivered cost and operational efficiencies

A high-tech manufacturing company had begun re-designing and re-aligning its organisational structure as an enabler for strategic success. To this end, they sought a service provider to review its extensive property portfolio in order to ensure alignment with its operational requirements and maximise value.

Various solution-lines were delivered, leveraging our Strategy, Change Management, Relocation Management, Project Management, Workplace Strategy, and Facilities Management teams. Betapoint evaluated which properties could be disposed of, whether sold, leased or other, in order to alleviate liquidity challenges. Betapoint concluded an exercise analysing the premises to achieve an optimisation strategy for the current footprint, which included an in-depth spatial utilisation analysis and a recommendation on how space would be better utilised, now and in the future. The overarching strategy took all of the costs into account and included a total cost of occupancy outlook, down to the detail of facilities management expenditure and a relocation impact assessment, looking at the possibility and financial effects of co-locating business units into a lesser number of sites and buildings. The strategy empowered the CEO to make sustainable decisions about their new spatial and property requirement. The result of Betapoint’s interventions were better capital utilisation and an improved employee experience.