Cynthia J. Hoffman is editor of Real Estate Forum magazine. Forum and GlobeSt.com are both produced by Real Estate Media Inc.

ATLANTA-The corporate real estate portfolio of 2010 "will be reconfigured to low-cost/high-value locations," stated Barbara Hampton, CoreNet Global VP of Knowledge Management, at the CoreNet Global Summit here. And if you are a service provider, "you will need to make substantial investment in talent and infrastructure to survive in the future."

Those were some of the issues addressed during this morning's session, "Corporate Real Estate 2010: Enabling Work in a Networked World," which revealed some of the preliminary findings of a recently launched CoreNet research and professional development program. The program is geared toward identifying future business shifts and helping member s respond to them.

"We need to play a leadership role in the future of corporate real estate," to uncover "what is the next big wow," said Sean McCourt, CoreNet chairman and chairman of Ford Land, of the research program at the opening session, held at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta.