FIU Corporate Solutions Jones Lang LaSalle Case

Read the “Corporate Solutions at JLL” case study attached below and answer the questions below. This assignment is graded for completeness (answering all the questions), effective write-up (clear and free of grammatical errors), and thoughtfulness of your answers (demonstrate knowledge and critical thinking).

• What advantages and disadvantages does a single point of contact at a service provider have for Bank of America (BofA)?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of restructuring Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) to create a corporate real estate services/account management function?
• Should the account management function be a cost center or profit center? Why?
• Should Peter Barge recruit an internal or external candidate to be the BofA account manager?
• Based on your previous discussion of advantages and disadvantages to client and JLL, do you recommend JLL to restructure and for BofA to work with JLL as single service provider?