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Warehouses that were once filled with racks, boxes, and forklifts are changing. Today, warehouses fill up with something new -- the latest technology. Today's supply chains start in warehouses filled with both tangible tools like autonomous vehicles and cutting edge fixtures as well as intangibles like advanced data processing supported by a web of sensors. Here are some of the innovations that are currently revolutionizing logistics.

When it comes to your office space, a well-lit copy room and a water cooler won't cut it anymore. While many of the changes in expected amenity loads are coming from the Millennials, your CFO also plays a role. Many of these amenities make both happy by creating an office space that is more open and collaborative, but also more space and cost efficient.

Calculating your company's commercial real estate utilization isn't an ungainly and ultra-complicated process. The mathematics underlying it is simple and, with the help of online calculation tools, you don't even have to do it. Instead, it just requires collecting a few numbers for each site.

Commercial real estate utilization is a metric that looks at the size of your space and at what you are doing with it. It can be calculated for any type of property and provides a quick check to see if a space is too small, too large or perfectly sized. Used strategically, your CRE utilization can also allow you to benchmark against the market.

Office space design continues changing. The rabbit warren of private offices gave way to the cubicle farm which gave way to the trading floor-style open workspace. The future of office space, though, is much more creative and much less hierarchical.

Warehouse space is no longer just four walls and a relatively high roof. Given the complexity of modern supply chains, your warehouse space could be the most complicated building in your company's real estate portfolio. As you look at warehouse properties, here are the seven must haves that you should require:

Drones are already revolutionizing the commercial real estate industry. While much of the attention is getting paid to how drones for commercial real estate are enhancing how brokers list and market properties, the impact of drones may be even greater for the users and managers of those commercial properties.

There is more to an office lease than your actual space, as defined by its demising walls. Your space is only as good as the building common areas that lead to it. After all, it's hard to get to a suite on the 14th floor if you don't have a lobby to walk into and hallways to walk down. Possibly even more important than the common areas is the parking garage, ramp or lot that the building offers. Paying careful attention to the parking area -- and your rights within it -- can help to ensure that the office lease you sign is the right one for your company.

Sourcing new office space can be time-consuming and expensive, but the process can also yield real benefits. This is especially true if your current space is showing any of these five signs.