Fulcrum Corporate's AssetTest helps clients determine portfolio strategies to meet their business objectives.

By crunching both hard financial data and factoring in soft cultural information such as function types and technical issues, the AssetTest creates a fully-informed model which can then be manipulated to test different scenarios and outcomes.

The AssetTest scenarios include:

• Financial results
• Occupational results
• Impact on the business

Each scenario can be assessed from a number of perspectives, with the results mapped on a 'before and after' diagram.

The AssetTest is a particularly valuable tool in change management programmes, such as capacity realignment, and in M&A where potential synergies and fit need to be identified.

This example property strategy for a company's London offices maps out a range of moves over a three-year period. Developed in conjunction with the client, it incorporates the drivers of the business: staffing levels, new technologies and synergistic opportunities through co-locations.

The strategy is then mapped out financially using our AssetTest model, taking account of all costs, including building costs, capital expenditure, write offs and all other costs relevant to the strategy.

These tools become valuable aids in communicating the strategy throughout an organization, particularly to get buy-in from decision-makers.

To download and view the original detailed diagram in Microsoft Excel format please click here.