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London's Prime Residential Market: Gilt Edged Returns or a Minefield for the Unwary?

The cautionary headlines in the UK mainstream residential market are in vast contrast to those related to the continued boom in the London prime market.

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The search for capital - leveraging financial capacity and improving performance

The search for capital - leveraging financial capacity and improving performance

The next five years will see a major change in the affordable housing landscape with all organisations needing to source capital or debt.

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A sustainable asset management strategy optimises costs and protects asset value

A sustainable asset management strategy optimises costs and protects asset value

Airport owners and operators need to optimise operational and maintenance costs to combat declining passenger numbers.

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Deliver better health outcomes more efficiently through effective procurement

Deliver better health outcomes more efficiently through effective procurement

Up to 12 per cent of NHS purchasing budgets are wasted on overpaying for items. About £12 billion annually is spent on buying health service equipment. If you talk about 12 per cent of that, it takes us into the low billions.

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Realising strategic goals through effective programme management

Realising strategic goals through effective programme management

All too often power utility companies start their long term investment programmes with the objective to ‘be the best’ - with world class programme management. However, best intentions time and again begin to fail.

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Bottom line improvement through effective operations performance management

Bottom line improvement through effective operations performance management

Utilities need to focus like never before on measures that rapidly reduce the real cost of their operations.

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Greater focus on equipping costs delivers better value

Greater focus on equipping costs delivers better value

There is a huge focus on ‘rationalisation of the Estate’. The agenda of delivering ‘more for less’ and driving performance out of assets tends to rely on reviewing the physical building where services are delivered.

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A robust asset strategy optimises investment capacity and improves outcomes for tenants

A robust asset strategy optimises investment capacity and improves outcomes for tenants

These are challenging times for the affordable housing sector. Against a backdrop of the most severe cuts in public expenditure in a generation, a number of major factors are impacting registered providers.

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Strategic asset management is now pivotal in delivering industrial profitability and sustainability

Strategic asset management is now pivotal in delivering industrial profitability and sustainability

Strategic asset management involves the management of capital, equipment, people and other resources to minimise risk and to maintain and support all company assets.

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Procurement and contracting strategies to meet clients’ project promises

Procurement and contracting strategies to meet clients’ project promises

Given the volatility of the oil and gas construction market with soaring costs delaying projects or even causing questions around investment viability, there is an ever increasing pressure to achieve cost and time certainty.

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