DEGW's work with professional services organisations has been key to our development throughout the last 30 years. While the professional services sector covers a range of organisations - management consultants, management accountants, lawyers and specialist consultants -all have experienced a dramatic degree of change during the last few decades.
Business change has come from many directions - from legislative reform of the legal industry to the consolidation of management consultants. DEGW's approach with professional services clients is to build long term relationships with clients that enable us to transfer knowledge across locations and over time. Our objective is always to deliver property solutions that generate measurable business benefits.
Management consultants and accountants
Trends:
• Current impact of change within industry, recession and regulatory forcing better use of resources (people and real estate)DEGW approach:
• Supporting sector in short, medium and long termLegal Firms
Trends:
• Increasing global networks and strategic alliances in top layers
of industry
• Mergers creating larger businesses based on multiple locations
• Broad market base of key businesses maintains growth exceeding
14%
• Changes in legal processes resulting in adoption of new working
practices
• Attraction and retention of staff is a major concern in this industry
• Partnership structures beginning to change
• Increased focus on value added services
DEGW approach:
• International networks of knowledge development, local implementation
and partnering increasingly significant
• Precedents are important for relatively cautious user base
• Structured communication and change management strategies
• Need for sensitive presentation of business cases for change
options
• DEGW has capital saving and capital expenditure skills and services
to model financial impact of options.
Selected professional services clients: