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Real Estate Valuations:
An Enhanced Approach

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In the commercial real estate industry, the ultimate goal is to maximize asset value. Understanding what an asset is worth and why so that you can determine where best to invest your time and money is key to optimal asset management. Conventional valuation methodologies take actual leasing information and add on a set of guesses about what will happen over a 10-year time frame in an attempt to pinpoint a single valuation number. At Hipercept, we have found that even the “actual” leasing information is often not accurate, making the guesses that follow even less reliable.

Establishing a Data Governance Program: A Hipercept Executive Briefing

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Over the past few years, there has been a steady rise in awareness of the importance of information assets and the need to develop “preventative maintenance plans” to keep those assets in good condition. The label that has been given these endeavors is “Data Governance.” This briefing provides a high level overview of this emerging discipline and describes an approach to implementing Data Governance that we believe will result in success for medium and large companies in real estate or financial services companies.

Conversion to IFRS and the impact to real estate

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Conversion to IFRS promises to be the single biggest change to accounting policies and procedures ever undertaken by those involved in U.S. Real Estate. Beyond the accounting changes, conversion to IFRS will impact everything from systems design to investor relations to compensation practices.

Avoid the Business Intelligence project graveyard: plan for change, focus on agility

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Despite having billions of dollars in assets under management, massive I.T. staffing and an abundance of business support, a vast majority of BI initiatives have either failed, are on life support or are so far disconnected from the original vision they may as well have not been implemented. Learn to avoid the common pitfalls and stay out of the graveyard.

Achieving project success in an investment environment that demands more information for less

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Managing the alignment between technology and business groups, leveraging technology for effective investment management and the identification of appropriate resources creates a complex challenge for any company. Solving this challenge involves utilizing the connection between people, process and technology.

Data Governance: A Six Step Solution

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Improving data quality is at the forefront of most companies’ minds these days. While data quality is seen as improving through improved software, companies are still losing enormous amounts of money through bad data. Here are six steps to better data governance.