What Are The Drivers of Uncertainty in Office Real Estate?

What Are The Drivers of Uncertainty in Office Real Estate?

Featuring Pontus Kihlman

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Caleb & Pontus in Helsinki, Finland - June 2023

"Then only thing certain, is you can't be certain"

It's?an understatement to say there is uncertainty in office real estate right now.

It’s been that way for a few years now.

In this Caleb Parker Show episode, I'm joined by Pontus Kihlman live on stage at Recotech Finland in Helsinki, Finland to dive into the drivers of uncertainty in the workplace, the discomfort this creates, especially for office real estate, and how to lead through discomfort.

We discuss:

  • the need for agility
  • the role office real estate plays in supporting positive company culture
  • multi-locational workplaces
  • why customer-centricity is crucial to office design and programming
  • and of course Finnish saunas ????

Pontus and Caleb after touring Valo Hotel's innovative hotel-office concept

I've been a fan of Pontus since we met...

...be sure to listen to the beginning of this episode to hear that story ??

If you follow the prolific content Pontus Kihlman publishes on LinkedIn you’ll already know he is passionate about developing the built environment and how we use it smartly. He often focuses on wellbeing at work, organizational culture, corporate responsibility and sustainability. And he’s an expert on physical and digital workplace solutions, covering coworking hubs, smart office apps and PropTech.

He shares his passions on stage at industry events, and has put his passion to work while developing the smart office and workplace solutions market and growth opportunities for nearly 8 years at RAPAL.

When he’s not kayaking the lakes of Finland ?? he’s promoting circular and sharing economies, flexwork and workplace solutions that enable smarter ways of working and commuting, while providing work-life balance.

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Heidi Lilja

CEO at Amerikka Design Office Ltd l Board Member

4 个月

Us who are developing & building workplaces need to have 2 super skills: ?? ability to deal with & manage change ?? understand the human nature as work itself, business models and user needs are characterized with volatility, uncertainty, complexity & ambiguity. So yes, office RE is VUCA indeed!

Pontus Kihlman

M.Sc. (Eng) | Business Developer | Built Environment Generalist | Communications & Relations | Market Development & Growth | Workplace Strategy & Advisory, Culture & Change | Speaker & Edutainer | Worklife Philosopher

4 个月

Too excited to go running or kayaking, and heat up sauna for this one!?? I had to listen to it right away! It was an honor to be (spontaneously) invited to the show, Caleb Parker, thank you for the opportunity to be slightly outside my comfort zone (not having a ready topic with talking points) and in addition, as the closing programme number, live on stage, at the Recotech Finland event! I think you can tell the slight nervousness in the stutter... but in uncertain times, we need to be BRAVE ?? November was a while ago, so nice to recap a bit about what was said. Hopefully we can continue the discussion going further, now and here, in the comment section with everyone who listens to our discussion. For ease, some points I think could be interesting to continue on are: 1. process-centric approaches to designing workplaces (business and work processes), optimising for lean and quality 2. human-centric approaches to designing workplaces (both during the design process itself, as well as the outcomes for the user) [co-creation and service design, where the 'workplace' isn't just a place but a platform for process and business success] 3. Multi-locational workplace strategies 4. Human behaviour, and predictibility therein

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