Strategic Advisory and Consulting
Strategic Programme Management
Turning your strategy into reality by helping clients structure, plan and implement complex business programmes.

Many organisations face the challenge of managing and delivering change across their real estate portfolio. Whether it’s from a merger, a changing culture, or a new business policy, we help our clients to proactively form a strategic response to this type of challenge.
At the heart of CBRE’s Strategic Programme Management offering, we manage major transformations, business change initiatives, and complex programmes across a variety of industries. Our proven approach, combined with industry best practice, enables our clients to define, implement and realise their strategic real estate objectives.
Our experienced team can support you by:
- Designing an effective and flexible solution to bring your strategy to life and deliver wide ranging aspects of transformation and change
- Managing complex programmes to help you make informed decisions, drive excellence and deliver long lasting results
- Optimising your processes to enable efficient, effective governance and benefits realisation
Contact CBRE’s Strategic Programme Management team today, should your real estate portfolio be facing:
- Major Transformation
- Change due to Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestments
- Evolving ways of working
- Real estate transition
- Need for operational improvement
- Large asset workplace mobilisation
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Programme Strategy
Identifying the route from your current state to your desired future state.
We design the outcomes and plan progressive delivery enabling you to define ‘the how’, a clear route to achieving your programme’s objectives. We map your desired benefits and outcomes and link them back to your business strategy, maintaining the focus on how to meet your end goals.
— Unpack business objectives and outcomes
— Define the strategy
— Integrate the business
— Develop integrate programme delivery plan -
Strategic Delivery
Making the complex simple. Delivering your large transformation programmes on your behalf, taking the ‘burden’ away from you.
We focus on enabling the successful realisation of your objectives through implementation of the programme plan, effective management of outcomes and tracking of critical milestones. Our delivery methodology focuses both on the successful delivery of your programme but also embedding change within your business so you can be ready to integrate.
— Implement the programme
— Manage risks
— Stakeholder management
— Realise the benefits
— Project performance review and lessons learned
— Develop integrate programme delivery plan -
Process Optimisation & Governance
Bespoke solutions to optimise your key real estate processes and enable efficient delivery and engagement.
We work with yourself and key stakeholders to identify the optimum solution for your process-related challenges. This could mean defining a new process from scratch, redeveloping a current process to align to updated ways of working, or driving improvements in how change management and process adoption occurs within your organisation.
We identify the key areas for improvement needed to reach your end goals and design the governance support mechanisms you will require.
— Current state assessments
— Vision statement
— Process improvement plan
— Design and develop programme platforms
— KPI development and tracking
— Assurance plan
Related Services
Developing commercial solutions and processes that help your business realise it’s potential to meet future and existing challenges.
Enabling structured transformation and change to help realise the potential in your people, processes and systems.
Developing strategies to unlock business value through your assets. We translate board-level priorities into value creation opportunities.
We can provide confidence to your stakeholders that your programmes are on-track to achieve scope, time, cost, objectives, and realise its benefits.
Identifying the best digital solutions for our clients’ needs, shaping the strategy, informing the business case, and implementing sustainable change.
Contacts
Marco Mestre
Director, Head of Strategic Programme Management
Jonathan Moseley
Executive Director, Head of Strategic Advisory, Head of Infrastructure & Defence
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