Real Estate and Facilities Managers need to track buildings, workspaces, personnel and assets to gain an understanding of the financial impact of occupancy, cost allocations, and charge backs.  They also need to forecast real estate needs for strategic planning and decision making.

The New Approach to Space Management and the Agile Work Environment
	The AgilQuest solution adds two additional layers of space information to the Inventory and Allocation model.  This four layer stack is now made up with  - your total space INVENTORY, how your space is ALLOCATED, how your space is SCHEDULED or ASSIGNED, and how your space is ACTUALLY USED.
The Inventory Layer shows you the size of each building, floor and workspace; basic information contained in all leases; building locations; and building capacities. The Allocation Layer shows your departmental workspace allocations, space vacancies, and information regarding space charge backs. The Scheduled/Assigned Layer shows how every workspace is scheduled to be used on a day to day basis, including who is scheduled to use each space, where the vacancies are located, and a systematic approach to how people can find a workspace when and where they need one. The Actual Use Layer tracks the actual use of all assigned, collaborative, and shared workspaces, and who used each space. Armed with this information, organizations can determine how to add more people without adding more space - or how to identify the workspaces that are grossly underutilized. Tens of millions of dollars can be saved or avoided by divesting unused space, or by adding employees to existing facilities. The Scheduled and Actual Use layers give employees what they really want: a choice in workplace settings and a means to locate colleagues. These two layers also provide management with the business intelligence needed to optimize the real estate portfolio, cut the number of buildings required to support the workforce – and dramatically reduce your organization’s carbon footprint.  In short, the addition of the Scheduled and Actual Use layers to the Space Management Stack is the way to make the workplace as flexible as the workforce.

Space Management in an Agile Work Environment
	The AgilQuest solution adds two additional layers of space information to the Inventory and Allocation model, making it a four layer stack consisting of - your total space INVENTORY, how your space is ALLOCATED, how your space is SCHEDULED or ASSIGNED, how your space is ACTUALLY USED.
The Inventory Layer shows you the size of each building, floor and workspace; basic information contained in all leases; building locations; and building capacities.  The Allocation Layer shows your departmental workspace allocations, space vacancies, and information regarding space charge backs.   The Scheduled/Assigned Layer shows how every workspace is scheduled to be used on a day to day basis, including who is scheduled to use each space, where the vacancies are located, and a systematic approach to how people can find a workspace when and where they need one.   The Actual Use Layer tracks the actual use of all assigned, collaborative, and shared workspaces, and who used each space. In an Agile Work Environment, actual use of space is measured continually, and for all workspaces. Armed with this information, organizations can determine how to add more people without adding more space - or how to identify the workspaces that are grossly underutilized. Tens of millions of dollars can be saved or avoided by divesting unused space, or by adding employees to existing facilities. The Scheduled and Actual Use layers give employees what they really want: a choice in workplace settings and a means to locate colleagues. These two layers also provide management with the business intelligence needed to optimize the real estate portfolio, cut the number of buildings required to support the workforce – and dramatically reduce your organization’s carbon footprint.  In short, the addition of the Scheduled and Actual Use layers to the Space Management Stack is the way to make the workplace as flexible as the workforce.

The AgilQuest Solution would: