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ARCHIBUS Strategic Master Planning

Organizations typically are in a constant state of flux because of expansion, downsizing, merger, or acquisition activity. The ARCHIBUS Strategic Master Planning application helps organizations better align facilities and infrastructure development with organizational changes through sophisticated analysis of historical space data and other information. Now it's easy to develop short-, medium-, or long-term facility and infrastructure plans -and cost estimates-while maximizing operational effi ciencies. ARCHIBUS Strategic Master Planning allows you to easily evaluate and manage the inevitable change that all organizations face.

Assists in developing facility and infrastructure plans of various time frames to best align with organizational needs
Avoids tying up valuable capital by accurately forecasting costs based on historic information
Maximizes operational effi ciencies by mapping departmental affinities
Keeps costs under control by seamlessly transitioning strategic program information to space planners

Track departmental space usage over time to enhance planning strategies

Proactively Manage Growth & Consolidation
Understanding costs and risks, and maintaining flexibility, helps your organization maximize opportunities. Access all the historical information you need to formulate your organization's strategic planning goals. Departmental relationships or affinities, types of space required, square footage/square meter needs, duration of need, and more can all be captured and analyzed.

Develop program requirements based on department inventories and space requirements
Develop a space requirements program for merged entities
Summarize costs associated with a proposed increase or decrease in occupant headcount

Detail future needs and their associated costs. Built-in methodologies and user-defined variables let you forecast with confidence. Forecast requirements on a business unit or departmental basis. See how dynamic variables affect budgets, schedules, and space availability when creating comprehensive master plans.

Establish a formulaic relationship between business growth and space needs
Report on each department's specific costs, such as space, furniture, and moving expenses
Create what-if scenarios to compare budgets

Determine how space is best optimized in accordance with your business needs. Business needs usually dictate that certain departments must closely collaborate with one another to meet organizational objectives. Affinity mapping can help you graphically represent the natural relationships that exist between entire departments or groups of individuals within your organization. Based on these affinities you can implement space plans that will improve your organization's operational effectiveness. Record how much space each employee or department
should be allocated, and use these figures for creating future and trial layouts. Summary reports help compare layouts to determine which are most cost-effective, without overwriting existing plans. If you run out of available space before completing a trial allocation, you will know whether you need to acquire new space or decrease the space allotted per person.

Create stack diagrams to visually represent allocations, program needs, and forecast needs
Design optimal layouts using inventory comparisons
Automatically generate diagrammatic space bubbles that match allocation plans for standard rooms

Control costs by tracking allocated space usage at the department level. Use historic trends to analyze how space has been used at your organization over time, a helpful reference when planning for the future. Manage the challenges of high churn rates-you can associate standard costs with each type of space, then quickly and easily generate move cost reports. Compare the costs of existing versus forecasted configurations to determine which is the most cost-effective alternative.