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Chairman’s welcome
Despina Katsikakis Research, collaboration and knowledge The nine case studies featured in this year’s annual
Chairman DEGW sharing are essentials in the creation of review demonstrate how working with our clients
successful organisations. They are at the we have embraced the theme of collaboration,
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core DEGW’s business. They ensure that creating strategies and delivering places that are
we maximise the opportunities in the present relevant and responsive to change, enhancing
and are prepared for the challenges of the the working and learning experience of people,
future so that our vision, and the advice we and delivering increased value.
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deliver add value to our clients, have At DEGW we have a legacy of sharing our
a firm foundation.
research and knowledge. During this year
Our groundbreaking merger with global we have continued this practice by contributing
construction consultancy Davis Langdon in to the revised edition of Managing the Brief for
July 2009 has brought access to complementary Better Design as well as progressing several
additional skills and markets, and has increased significant multi client studies such as; Innovation
our global coverage and capabilities. This provides in Workplace Strategy with participation from,
the potential for collaboration to develop joined amongst others, Accenture, American Express,
up business cases, to manage risk and deliver Cisco, Exxon Mobil, GlaxoSmithKline and Intuit.
value from beginning to end. We can work with We are delighted that Dan Johnson, Accenture’s
our clients across all sectors to define and Global Director of Corporate Real Estate
implement the right strategy and unlock value Workplace, provides our foreword where
from their built assets, do more with less and he expands on the theme of collaboration.
achieve certainty for the future by using evidence
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DEGW committed to delivering business value,
based solutions that deliver measurable
through capitalising on the relationship between
business performance.
people and place to enhance organisational
Evolving technologies and mass collaboration performance. This requires us to continually adapt
are significant drivers of innovation and success, our business approach in line with the market and
transforming where we work, the way we work, our clients’ changing needs. In the latest chapter in
where business, science and learning is done, DEGW’s successful evolution, by the end of 2010
and how we inform ourselves, creating new and DEGW and Davis Langdon will become part of
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exciting possibilities and uncovering a vast pool AECOM, leading global provider of professional,
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of talent beyond the traditional organisational technical and management support services. With
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boundaries. Environments to support new forms each change we have become a stronger and
External Collaboration Space
Accenture Customer Innovation of virtual and facetoface collaboration are more successful business. This latest development
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Network, Milan critical enable the potential opportunities. will, am sure, carry on this tradition.
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