2001 DIRECTIONS AT SPACE:  CLARITY
By Jean Bellas, C.E.O., President; SPACE

As organizations evolve there comes a time to review progress, momentum and assess the amount of energy being committed to forward motion.  It is amazing the extent of activity a company can become engaged in that does not significantly contribute to the advancement of the clients, the team, or the work. Our focus has been to eliminate extraneous motion and direct our actions to assure we are doing for our clients and for ourselves what is essential, what is necessary and what is required to aggressively move forward.  Clarity is our purpose.


We are client focused.  We do for our clients; we strive to please our clients.  We want increased speed, global expansiveness, cost efficiencies, and imbedded innovations.  We want every project to be an opportunity to further develop our team and to improve our performance to our clients. 

We recognize key factors toward this success: leadership, team performance, and integration of technology.  We have created change and have gained clarity.

Our leadership team has shifted from an entrepreneurial organization to one of defined roles and responsibilities, an organization to create a strong backbone for SPACE.

The global operations of our multiple geographies now fall under the direction of Shawn Rush.  Shawn is supported by David Reeves, in making sure every project manager has the tools, the processes and education to most effectively manage a project or a portfolio of projects.  Strengthening capital and human resource management excellence is imperative.

For more than a year we have invested heavily in the development of our technology spine to deliver services on line, for the most rapid total global project delivery system.  That spine is being put in place throughout the entire company, with linkages to all our clients as our standard way of doing business.  We have created highly intelligent partners to enable us to deliver on-line services, and an internal organization of leadership.  We have become a technology service company. 

We are streamlining our work, recognizing that global delivery systems, and centralization of decentralized activities are within our ability to expedite.  Jim Stefanski and Morrie Spang lead organizational standardization and “platforming”, to dramatically reduce our cost of delivery and opening resources for increased innovation.

We have broken convention and consolidated work into Skill Performance Sets. Centralized in Mexico City under the leadership of Carlo Rivera is a world class technical production team, working in multiple languages, in both metric and English, supporting global project production as well as the most sophisticated of animated graphics. 

Our business development is directed.  We target relationships with “world clients”, those who serve both domestic and emerging markets, using geography as integral to their business strategy.  Hal Matthews leads this effort, and links us as a singe unit in support of major and emerging organizations.

Our Managing Directors hold and develop a network of regional relationships, and mentor teams to make sure our services, attention, quality and consistency are in a league where there is no competition.  Scott Daniels leads our New York/Newark team, Gary Bazzoni and Ray Irmer share leadership of Chicago and the Midwest, Tracy Wymer and Jim Stefanski co direct California, Morrie Spang Atlanta, and Shawn Rush, Seattle and    Juan Carlos Baumgarten leads Mexico City.  Our network of offices is complemented by partners in Europe (SAARBERG and Associates) and Smith Madden Group and DNA Consulting in Australia and throughout Asia, for global coverage. 

This set of actions has positioned SPACE for a fit, aggressive and growth year in 2001.  We are pleased to bring our online marketing program, and to deliver online services.  We are pleased to bring you not just local knowledge but integrated world knowledge.  We are a full service, fully integrated business, clear on our mission to serve our clients in total real estate and facility services, anywhere, anytime and better than anybody else.  

Join us in our explorations and our accomplishments as SPACE moves the future.

Thank you for working with us, being part of our team, or just wanting to know a bit more about SPACE.

 

Jean Bellas

President

 

For questions, please contact Jean Bellas at bellasj@workplayce.com

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