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Nicholas White on smart building

Co-founder with Elizabeth Nelson and Wouter Truffino of smart building certification, Nicholas White is also a partner at Lab: Learn Adapt Build, where research happen on the work environment and the effect of buildings on people.

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How to be a Property Manager of Holiday Homes? The answers by Gill Meredith

Gill Meredith is not only the author of “How to be a Property Manager: South of France”. Born in the UK, she managed teams in UK, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.

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Digitalisation and property management. New property technologies in the eyes of Alex Turner.

We had a great coffee talk about the changing times in the proptech world, as well as new property maintenance technologies. Enjoy the discussion. Alex works for Strategic Advisory at CBRE helping large companies understand the transition and relation between digital interfaces, physical spaces and humans. This includes digital transformations,

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Objectif Proviseur

Patrick Ancel a partagé avec Urbest son expérience d’ancien proviseur et d’expert en accompagnement de personnel de direction d’établissement scolaire. Ses réflexions nous éclairent sur le métier des proviseurs et des équipes de direction de lycées ainsi que les compétences à maîtriser pour l’avenir. Quelles évolutions

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Changer une organisation nécessite de surmonter des frictions, des habitudes et se préparer à de nouvelle façon de faire.

Nous avons discuté avec Bruno Vidal Fondateur du cabinet Realst, expert en transformation des organisations et amélioration de la performance, enseignant à La Sorbonne. Urbest: Préparer le changement, c’est plus facile à dire qu’à faire. Par où commencer? Bruno Vidal : C’est une question délicate, bien souvent le

Success-story

A life of housing commitment, the impact on the community and the key to upgrade the quality of people's life.

David Orr was our guest to share a lifetime experience in improving communities life around Europe. From his childhood David Orr was educated in a family devoted to encouraging people to achieve things they thought they could never do. With more than 30 years of experience in Chief Executive roles,

Change Management

Healthcare systems facing the same challenges as property management: safety and efficiency.

We had the pleasure to talk with Anne Guigou, an expert on transformations of healthcare organizations, about how Healthcare is facing new challenges and how digitalization is a key player. Anne has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare. She started her career at Baxter, from marketing and sales

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Les défis de la gestion d'un co-living.

Nous nous sommes entretenus avec Alexis Briand, Responsable des Opérations de La Casa. Avec plus de 140 résidents répartis dans 11 maisons, Alexis nous explique comment il maintient ses Casas et assure le service client. Urbest: C’est quoi La Casa? de la colocation, du co-living, autre chose ? Alexis Briand:

Change Management

Comment préparer sa transformation digitale ?

Les services publics ne sont pas en reste en matière de transformations digitales et notamment dans le domaine de la finance. Elles permettent de réaliser des gains considérables en efficacité et en amélioration de la qualité de service. Nous avons interviewé un spécialiste du sujet. Philippe Baron

Success-story

Simplification in motion

Let me tell you how urbest started in march 2017.Handed over in 2010, Eqwater is the third office building designed by Bouygues Immobilier in the business district of Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris. With 14,500 m2 of office space, Eqwater can house 1,200 people spread across 7 floors. Urbest