By Surabhi Sheth | Deloitte Services
As we started planning our annual outlook for 2016, we felt that many of the day-to-day challenges and opportunities haven’t changed that much from last year. Rather, we observed that our clients are increasingly talking about trends that are evolving fast and carry the potential to disrupt the industry over the next decade. Excited by that buzz, we conducted an outlook ideation lab to brainstorm with many of our leading commercial real estate (CRE) practitioners in the US and Canada about the trends and priorities that are likely to cause significant disruption in the industry. While we kicked around several trends, technology-led disruption dominated the discussion. Now you may well be asking, what’s new about this trend?
