Business Infrastructure Relocation

To respond to rapidly changing business demands, such as high growth, outsourcing or acquisition, companies often find themselves struggling to find the optimal mix of capital-intensive infrastructure (real estate, plant, and technology) for their organisation’s evolving needs. Business infrastructure relocation projects are often high-profile and high-risk, yet few of them end up delivering on the opportunity of real business benefits. More often, infrastructure projects are left to internal property and support units that are not driven by the business needs and are not equipped to adequately interface with the business units they serve.

PIPC Approach

To get the mix right requires addressing a complex set of challenges which may include:

• long lead times and potentially significant commitments to fixed costs
• technical complexity in terms of business design, technology and logistics
• significant change to the staff and disruption to the entire organisation
• management of a host of specialised professionals and vendors including bankers, real estate agents, construction firms, technology specialists, contractors, movers.

Providing the optimal business infrastructure solution requires a coherent understanding of technology, space, capital and people, all tightly aligned to the business strategy. By treating the entire effort as a holistic business change project, the likelihood of delivering tangible business benefits significantly increases.

For transformation to occur, not only must capacity needs be carefully assessed and provided for, but a solution must be crafted which addresses the significance of infrastructure and technology on the effectiveness of people, processes and the delivery of the business strategy. Naturally it must also provide robust delivery plans.

PIPC’s key steps in establishing and delivering the optimal infrastructure include:

• establishing an infrastructure and real estate strategy aligned with the business strategy
• developing alternate scenarios throughout
• creating a portfolio of projects to support the strategy
• applying robust project management to all aspects of change within the business.

Our Business Infrastructure Relocation approach is of use to any organisation that is reviewing its property or real estate portfolio, relocating businesses or building in a new location. We are of particular value to organisations that:

• do not have the experience of delivering major infrastructure and relocation change internally
• are under pressure from the market to complete the relocation quickly, for instance post-acquisition or moving a trading floor
• do not have the capacity today to manage such a complex undertaking.

PIPC Proposition

PIPC is well placed to help your organisation implement business infrastructure programmes effectively and to turn them into an opportunity rather than a burden.

We have helped many blue-chip organisations across the globe deliver change across their organisations under tight and immovable deadlines. Whether you need assistance with setting up the project in the right way, running it from start to finish, or rescuing a project that has gone off track, PIPC can provide the right level of support.

PIPC can support you with:

• a needs assessments for organisational infrastructure strategy aligned with business strategy
• business requirements and technology design including feasibility studies
• programme management, project office and governance set-up
• stakeholder, people, change and communications management
• vendor assessment and selection
• relocation management, data and technology migration.

With the pace of business change ever-increasing, increased emphasis on flexible global operations and rapid introductions of new technologies, businesses are finding they need to reassess and re-plan their infrastructure more frequently.

Successful and timely implementation of such change should be viewed as an investment for business growth tomorrow.