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Post-Move Facility Setup: Why Professional Services Make a Difference
Relocating your business is a complex process… and the move itself is only the beginning. After all, the reality is once you’ve settled into your new space, that’s when the real work begins. It’s imperative to set up a productive environment that allows your team to thrive and get to work immediately. Of course, while […]
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Inventory Accuracy 101: Why It Matters and How to Improve It
Effective inventory management is essential for maintaining a streamlined supply chain, meeting customer expectations, and maximizing profitability. Yet, many businesses struggle with inventory accuracy, and the consequences can be costly. According to a recent survey, 43% of small businesses either do not track their inventory at all or rely on outdated manual methods. Inaccurate inventory […]
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Seasonal Warehousing: How to Prepare for Peaks and Lulls
Managing seasonal demand fluctuations in warehousing can be a challenging endeavor. Whether gearing up for your seasonal rush or preparing for slower times during the year, businesses must adopt proactive strategies to ensure efficiency, optimize space, and meet customer expectations. Corovan is proud to offer actionable insights on inventory management, space allocation, and forecasting to […]
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Office Moves Without the Headaches: A Checklist for Stress-Free Transitions
Relocating an office can be a daunting task. From coordinating with movers to ensuring technology is correctly set up in the new location, there is indeed much to manage. However, with careful planning and organization, an office move can be relatively stress-free. As such, our team of commercial relocation experts has compiled this step-by-step guide […]
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Preparing for Climate Risks: What Facility Managers Need to Know
Climate change is hardly just some abstract concept. Increasingly, it’s affecting our daily lives, and seldom for the better. One of the most obvious ways in which climate change affects us is through the growing rate of climate-related disasters, from flooding to extreme temperatures. While these disasters can impact any one of us as we […]
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Top 5 Qualities of an Excellent Warehousing Provider
Whether you’re in the middle of a business relocation or you simply need additional storage space for extra furniture and office supplies, finding a trustworthy warehousing provider is essential. As you look for a warehousing provider, keep in mind that you’re not just looking for space. You’re also looking for the expertise required to keep […]
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Is Your IT Team Equipped for the Next CrowdStrike?
You’ve undoubtedly heard about the CrowdStrike outage, which occurred in July 2024 and was quickly christened the biggest IT snafu in history. The event affected Microsoft users the world over, plunging them deep into the dreaded blue screen of death (BSOD). The outage was so severe and so pervasive, it crippled business organizations across the […]
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From Campus to Campus: Strategies to Ensure Seamless Moves for Educational Institutions
Some schools take pride in having extensive or historic campuses; the thought of relocating is utterly unthinkable. But other schools may welcome the opportunity to change scenery, perhaps to accommodate an influx of students or to expand their facilities. While relocating an educational facility can yield many benefits, there are some logistical hurdles to clear […]
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5 Tips for Minimizing Disruption and Maximizing Efficiency During Your Move
Relocating your office can be disruptive, especially in relation to the other ongoing needs of your business. Thankfully, with the right strategy and the best vendors, you can not only ensure a successful move, but minimize the friction your team experiences. Here are five specific steps to keep in mind. It All Starts with Planning […]
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Lab Relocation Checklist: Essential Steps for a Successful Biotech Move
When it comes to commercial relocation, different types of facilities come with different needs. Case in point: Biotech laboratories. Transitioning your lab from one location to another requires a great deal of consideration for safety, sustainability, the integrity of your high-end equipment, and more. To ensure your biotech relocation goes as smoothly as possible, there […]
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Maximizing Small Spaces: Strategies for Efficient Office Layouts
Every workplace has some hard limitations when it comes to overall square footage. For some workplaces, those limitations can feel especially burdensome. If you have a large team and a lot of equipment, but a modest amount of physical space, your team may quickly start feeling cramped and cluttered. And when employees feel that way, […]
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Moving Your Medical Practice: Best Practices for Healthcare Facility Relocations
Whether you need additional space or simply wish to be closer to your patients, there are plenty of reasons why you might opt to relocate your medical practice. Naturally, the actual moving process can be a little complicated, particularly since it is likely to involve a great deal of sensitive and costly equipment. With the […]
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Establishing an Office Move Project Team: Roles, Responsibilities, & Collaboration
Relocating an entire business is no small feat. It’s a potentially massive, sprawling project with big ramifications for all aspects of business operations. As such, it’s a project far too big for any one person to handle. You’ll need all hands-on deck to ensure a smooth and successful move. To that end, one of the […]
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Assessing the Capacity & Resources of Commercial Movers: Ensuring a Smooth Office Move
When you’re planning a large-scale relocation project, it’s important to choose vendors who can match the scope of your move. Smaller moving companies may simply lack the resources or capacity needed to handle all the complexities of your office relocation, which means it’s important to find movers who can. The question is, how can you […]
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Seeking Recommendations & Reviews: Leveraging Others’ Experiences in Choosing a Commercial Mover
Choosing the right moving company can make a world of difference in your commercial relocation. By selecting the right moving team, your organization can contain costs, stick to a reasonable timeline, and ensure that all physical assets are properly secured. Additionally, an experienced commercial moving company can minimize any disruption to your team’s daily activities. […]
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The Art of Office Space Utilization: Maximizing Efficiency & Productivity
The concept of office space is nothing new— for generations, employees have gathered in cubicles and conference rooms to get their work done— but the expectations surrounding office space have evolved considerably. Between the pandemic and steady improvements in digital communication technologies, more and more employees are choosing to work from home, at least part […]
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Budgeting for an Office Relocation: Strategies for Cost Control & Forecasting
Often, relocating your office space is one of the most advantageous things you can do for your company. An office relocation can provide you with room to expand, it can place you closer to where your target customers are located, and in some cases it may even help you curtail overhead expenses. Even when an […]
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The Psychology of Office Moves: Minimizing Employee Stress and Disruption
Moving your home can be an emotionally unsettling experience for anyone, as it means saying goodbye to some of the day-to-day realities and routines that provide a sense of stability. The same could be said of moving a workspace, particularly since most employees spend as much time at the office as they do at home. […]
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Key Considerations for Fortune 500 Companies Undertaking Large-Scale Office Relocations
Relocating a corporate headquarters is always a massive undertaking, requiring careful management of cost, communications, and logistics. The complexity of an office relocation scales in accordance with the size of the company, meaning that Fortune 500 companies face acute difficulties. To properly plan for and manage these complexities, it’s first important to have a clear […]
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5 Business Moving Mistakes to Avoid
There’s really no way around it: Relocating a business tends to be pretty complicated, and often a little stressful. One of the best ways to reduce your relocation stress is to steer clear of some common moving errors. Here are five of the most common mistakes that businesses make when relocating… and some advice on […]
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5 Best Practices to Manage Your Company’s Off-Site Storage
There are a number of reasons to invest in an off-site storage program for your company. When organized well and managed efficiently, off-site storage makes it easy to save money, reusing what you already have as opposed to investing in new furniture and equipment. A good storage program also allows your facilities management team to […]
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4 Indicators Your Commercial Mover is Not Safe
During a commercial relocation, it’s tempting to focus on things like cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and logistics. Naturally, you want the move to happen as expediently as possible, with minimal disruption to your business operations. But in addition to efficiency, it’s also important to think about safety. Simply put, hiring a moving partner who isn’t safety-forward can […]
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Not All Moving Companies Have Commercial Moving Estimating Expertise.
Before embarking on a large-scale commercial relocation, it’s imperative to seek estimates from differing moving companies, comparing not just the pricing but the breadth of service. An accurate estimate is the first step in any moving project and estimating mistakes can have real-world consequences. Moreover, it’s a mistake to assume that all moving companies have […]
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4 Ways to Make Your MAC Program More Efficient
For facilities teams, managing the ongoing daily requests for Moves, Adds, and Changes can be challenging. On the one hand, facilities teams are tasked with controlling costs; on the other hand, their job is to help address the needs of their co-workers. Careful balance is required, and during times of economic uncertainty, the pressure to […]
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