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Manhattan and the CoreNet MCR Program
- Nancy Johnson Sanquist, IFMA Fellow, VP of Marketing & Communications, Manhattan Software

Manhattan has encouraged its management team to become involved in the CoreNet Master of Corporate Real Estate (MCR) program for internal education. Sherri Everheart and Deb Vallo are the first to take advantage of this outstanding venue. The MCR Professional Development Program provides essential skills that focus on urgent and critical business issues. The MCR program was created to broaden knowledge and deliver ever-increasing value to the attendee's enterprise. In a peer-to-peer learning environment led by industry experts, Sherri and Deb enhanced their essential management skills and obtained useful "take-aways" with immediate applications.

The MCR designation communicates special competence and successful experience as a corporate real estate (CRE) expert. The designation has contributed significantly to the professionalism of CRE. The MCR Professional Development Series addresses the effective management of CRE functions from a strategic perspective that focuses on the mission of the CRE organization in relation to corporate goals. It is valuable for those at the mid-management level in CRE and those positioning themselves for mid-management level, including service providers.

The Series has a strong financial component as does the Manhattan Software suite, which emphasizes the critical need for understanding corporate real estate's linkage to the bottom line. Strategic approaches in portfolio management, aligning real estate to business strategy, outsourcing and partnering, and technology and workplace strategy are included in the Series. The first session Sherri and Deb took was the Sustainability course. They plan to continue the program in 2010.