In recent years there has been an increasing focus on Alternative Investments or Real Assets. Institutional investors, sovereign funds, and endowments have all increased their allocations to this sector to capitalize on the attractive returns coupled with diversifications. Working with both GPs and LPs within the sector to improve front to back office processing and reporting efficiencies through organization restructure, process improvement and the selection/implementation of supporting technologies, we are able to provide your organization better information on which to make decisions. Our team has deep knowledge of the business operations of both GPs and LPs and the nuances across asset classes such as commodities, opportunistic investments, private equity, hedge funds, real estate and infrastructure.
The effective use of capital across the portfolio that is in alignment with the business objectives of the organization is a challenging process that needs to have clearly defined business rules. In making these investments it is important to identify the ability to monetize these investments. Finally, the proper allocation of capital can be used on projects that help to reduce operational cost through energy management or alternative work place strategies.
Executing process change in your organization requires a deep understanding of key issues, current trends and the technology needed to support it. With the speed at which business operates, it's common that an organization is too quick to propose a solution without fully defining the problem. Undertaking the GPG four step approach allows your organization to fully define the challenges and identify comprehensive IT tools and solution. In working with our experienced consulting team, your organization will understand its strategy, structure and the tools necessary to make the strategy a reality.
Providing better cell service inside buildings is often a challenge. Typically, the solution requires investment in cellular distributed antenna systems (DAS) or cellular repeaters and the like. If you have a Wi-Fi infrastructure, carrier offloading provides a solution that enables the cellular customers of our partners to use your Wi-Fi for voice and data service on their phone. Not only does this solution provide better cellular service to your property, but Carrier Offloading also provides a source of revenue. We’ve partnered with cellular carriers representing over 35% of the cellular customers in the United States and are in the process of adding more.
GPG Advisers offers its clients analytical and targeted solutions to protect customer data and enhance infrastructure security. Our methodology is a broad-spectrum approach to help clients protect important corporate data, client/customer data and assets.
As companies implement Technical Communication Backbone (TCB) and Energy Management System (EMS) they need assistance in network management, energy management, and program management. Rather than hiring and training resources GPG is ready to monitor, manage and maintain on day 1. GPG provides managed services by defining the business processes and procedures to efficiently & effectively track analysis across the portfolio, managing issue resolution, and daily and weekly reporting. Through site review & documentation, energy & equipment analysis, and enterprise & property level support our team will find the best way to manage your services.
Property owners take a variety of approaches to build traffic and create excitement to attract new shoppers. Special events can range from musical performances, sing-alongs, exercise and wellness-based activities, food truck festivals, farmer’s markets and scores of other possibilities.
GPG helps real estate clients define a Salesforce vision and execute a Salesforce implementation plan that optimizes the experience of employees, business leaders and customers.
The use of data-gathering sensors and complex analytics tools to manage energy use – smart building technology -- is now being expanded far beyond energy cost savings.
Our team has considerable experience working with both general and limited partners within the sector to improve front to back office processing and reporting efficiencies through organization restructure, process improvement and proper selection and implementation of supporting technologies. With this expertise, we are able to provide your organization the relevant information you need to make better decisions.
Finally, the proper allocation of capital should, ultimately, be used on projects that reduce operational cost through energy management or alternative work place strategies.
Executing process change in any organization requires a deep understanding of key issues, current trends and the technology needed to support process modification.
However, with the speed and flexibility at which businesses must operate in today’s climate, it is common for organizations to implement what they hope is a quick solution before fully understanding the problem.
Undertaking the GPG four-step approach permits your organization to fully define the challenges and identify comprehensive IT tools and solutions to correct those processes that might impede attainment of your goals. Let us help you build a workable strategy, implement a plan and make your goals a reality.
In the need to move quickly and show results, organizations don’t take adequate time to understand the root cause of a process failure. As a result, the solution can be inadequate and the improvement process fails.
Knowledge of your real estate industry from the local level through the corporate back office gives GPG a unique perspective to prepare recommendations that don’t simply shift the process burden between stakeholders.
As opportunities are identified, we create your business case including estimates for time, cost and resources.
Successfully executing the suggested changes requires the ability to measure results whether it is creating capacity, reducing cycle time or using technology more effectively. This final step will allow you to assess the value the process change will make in your organization.
This includes documenting the current state of the organization’s IT architecture and infrastructure through detailed facilitated work sessions and interviews with the IT organization and various areas of the business. This analysis helps refine management’s assessment of alternatives and requirements.
Based on the components and understanding of current and future state needs, this phase documents key priorities and functionality required to perform daily, quarterly, and annual activities of the business. The information is leveraged to develop a clearly defined fit-gap assessment.
Information from the first two phases is leveraged to develop recommendations to close technology gaps.
Defining requirements includes documenting the needs or abilities of the overall system strategy and those of specific applications. During the development of requirements, we strive to find ways to improve the company’s operations and begin the consensus-building process. As a result of our real estate specialization, we have developed standardized models and tools that allow us to perform a requirements study very efficiently.
Real estate companies of all sizes can take advantage of packaged software for a variety of applications. With our industry expertise, we have in-depth knowledge of the software appropriate for the fit-gap assessment.
Ensure key project stakeholders in the organization understand the purpose of a business continuity plan and each one’s roles in the creation and support of the BCP.
Meet with business departments to discuss responsibilities as they relate to a BCP and ensure the correct tools and information are in place to operate efficiently in the event of a significant business interruption.
Create the plan and review details with the business owners to ensure all needs are met.
Train the team on the plan and then test the plan through a variety of means to identify any open issues or gaps.
The BCP is a living document. As testing provides new information, and organizational changes occur, additional revisions to the plan may be required. The BCP should be continuously updated and reviewed with key stakeholders.
GPG Advisers offers its clients analytical and targeted solutions to protect customer data and enhance infrastructure security. Our methodology is a broad-spectrum approach to help clients protect important corporate data, client/customer data and assets. GPG’s approach mitigates risk caused by potential internal error or by external attack. In the 2nd quarter of 2018, 765 million people were affected by data breaches and cyberattacks. Later in the year, 500 million major hotel chain customers were affected by a massive breach and another 100 million users’ account information was stolen from a popular Q&A community website.
GPG’s approach mitigates risk caused by potential internal error or by external attack.
In the 2nd quarter of 2018, 765 million people were affected by data breaches and cyberattacks. Later in the year, 500 million major hotel chain customers were affected by a massive breach and another 100 million users’ account information was stolen from a popular Q&A community website.
Recent studies on cybersecurity confirms the growth of IoT (Internet of Things) devices increases the cost of a breach by about $5 per compromised record, while full security automation reduces the cost of a breach significantly – by as much as 35%.
The EU’s landmark passage of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 is driving an effort for increased consumer protections in the U.S. In addition, the California State Assembly has already passed the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (AB 375) -- set to take effect in 2020 -- which has been touted as a possible foundation for a far-reaching federal law built on offering similar protections of the GDPR to U.S. citizens. New regulations that will most certainly impact the way organizations deal with cybersecurity issues are imminent. As the number of threats expand, and the likelihood of future legislative mandates to protect consumers looms, a comprehensive cybersecurity analysis and plan is, more than ever, essential. GPG’s security, network, and social engineering experts will help you develop a strategy, test for vulnerability and provide ongoing support to ensure that all protective measures are deployed successfully. Our services include:
The EU’s landmark passage of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 is driving an effort for increased consumer protections in the U.S. In addition, the California State Assembly has already passed the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (AB 375) -- set to take effect in 2020 -- which has been touted as a possible foundation for a far-reaching federal law built on offering similar protections of the GDPR to U.S. citizens.
New regulations that will most certainly impact the way organizations deal with cybersecurity issues are imminent. As the number of threats expand, and the likelihood of future legislative mandates to protect consumers looms, a comprehensive cybersecurity analysis and plan is, more than ever, essential.
GPG’s security, network, and social engineering experts will help you develop a strategy, test for vulnerability and provide ongoing support to ensure that all protective measures are deployed successfully. Our services include:
We’ve combined The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework’s Asset Management, Business Environment and Governance into a business assessment that creates an asset inventory and it's importance to the organization; an understanding of how the organization’s mission and objectives will inform cybersecurity roles, responsibilities and risk management decisions; and design policies, procedures and processes to manage and monitor cybersecurity. As part of that assessment, we will:
According to the NIST, a risk assessment is needed to “understand the cybersecurity risk to organizational operations (including mission, functions, image, or reputation), organizational assets, and individuals.” We accomplish this by:
The NIST suggests an organization’s risk management strategy should establish “the organization’s priorities, constraints, risk tolerances and assumptions.” The strategy is used to support decisions related to operational risk. This includes:
Communicating all aspects of cybersecurity policies, strategies, roles, and responsibilities to members of your organization and relevant partners is critical to the success of your cybersecurity efforts. GPG Advisers will create a training program to educate employees and partners on their cybersecurity responsibilities and duties.
As companies implement a technical communication backbone (TCB) and energy management system (EMS), assistance in network management, energy management, and program management is often required. We provide managed services by defining the business processes and procedures to efficiently track performance across the portfolio; manage issue resolution; and handle daily and weekly reporting. Through site review and documentation; energy and equipment analysis; and enterprise and property level assistance; GPG’s managed services provide scalable support for your people, processes and technology.
We provide managed services by defining the business processes and procedures to efficiently track performance across the portfolio; manage issue resolution; and handle daily and weekly reporting. Through site review and documentation; energy and equipment analysis; and enterprise and property level assistance; GPG’s managed services provide scalable support for your people, processes and technology.
Having a consistent network and Wi-Fi system is essential to your tenants’ operations. The best type of infrastructure is the type that “just works.” The focus of our network management service is to ensure our client's networks are fully and optimally operational. In addition to monitoring, GPG also coordinates component replacement, upgrades, and modifications. While many see the network as an operational cost, we help our clients find new ways to monetize their infrastructure to generate new revenue streams.
We find that many energy management vendors have limited ability to address the necessary business management and decision-making processes that ensure optimal cost savings. GPG can assist its clients with measuring, analyzing and acting on the collected data in order to achieve the projected cost savings. The focus of GPG Managed Services is to address department strategy; organizational structure; operations and procedures; and use of technology to steer the cost savings effort.
It is essential to have a dedicated and knowledgeable team that is able to focus on the following key elements:
However, planning and running special events is time-consuming and costly. Most important, how do you know if your investment delivers ROI?
GPG Advisers has marketing and special events specialists who can help ensure you are choosing the right events for your market and analyze traffic to show how long shoppers are spending on the property, where they are going before and after the event, and how long they are staying.
We have successfully helped both public and private real estate clients implement Salesforce by leveraging our extensive knowledge of the real estate industry and the Salesforce platform.
Salesforce is a powerful and flexible tool that enables a more efficient, transparent and information-driven experience for your employees, business leaders and customers. GPG helps real estate clients define a Salesforce vision and execute a Salesforce implementation plan that optimizes the experience of employees, business leaders and customers.
Implementing Salesforce to create value for your organization is not just about Salesforce: It’s about ensuring that Salesforce integrates with other applications and dovetails with processes and procedures. We help your organization define the key metrics; business processes and procedures; and a data model and technical architecture, so that Salesforce integrates seamlessly into your organization.
We help your organization define the key metrics; business processes and procedures; and a data model and technical architecture, so that Salesforce integrates seamlessly into your organization.
After initial implementation, real estate organizations often extend Salesforce to increase the realized value of the tool. GPG has experience completing Salesforce extension projects that are tactical and focused: We help our clients deliver those extension projects and continue to maximize the value of Salesforce.
The use of data-gathering sensors and complex analytics tools to manage energy use - smart building technology - is now being expanded far beyond energy cost savings to:
However, with all of the perceived benefits of smart building technology, not the least of which is to offer tenants/users a way to manage and improve their bottom-line, challenges to conversion and implementation are common.
GPG Advisers has a long-standing reputation for helping organizations successfully assess possibilities, select solutions, implement sustainable smart building technology, and discover the benefits through measurement of ROI.
Designing a cost-effective network architecture is an art requiring a significant amount of foresight and technical expertise. Our team can help your organization create cost-effective networks that ensure performance, security, scalability and redundancy.
People, processes and technology must integrate and work together in order to ensure companies are in control when the decision is made to migrate systems to the Cloud. We have assisted many organizations in selecting the correct applications for migration to a cloud offering to ensure streamlined business transaction processing while reducing internal overhead and cost.
We ascertain the best methods of linking protocols and software applications together, so that they will perform as a well-coordinated whole and give your end-users the finest experience possible. Our team of experts are skilled and certified in the majority of the integration tools leveraged by investors in alternative assets.
Our organization assists in the review, development and on-going support of organization’s disaster recovery plans. This is a critical area that is sometimes overlooked in an organization strategic plan but critical to ensure the business continues to operate effectively in the event of an unfortunate and unexpected event.