Research Note

Why Workplace Strategy Must Include Finance

Audience

CFOs, CRE leaders, strategists

Core question

Why do strategies built without Finance fail at the committee?

Thesis

Finance excluded until the business case is Finance rebuilding your numbers with different assumptions. The economics — reversal costs, option value, the unpriced value side — belong inside the methodology from Discover, co-authored rather than presented.

Suggested structure
  1. The presented-versus-co-built business case
  2. Reversal cost and option value: the missing lines
  3. Claiming workplace value at evidence strength
  4. Finance as evidence layer, not gatekeeper
Research sources
  • Real options literature
  • Occupier economics research
Workplaced relation

None

Related methods
Full article body — in development.