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OCO offers a global corporate location service to multinational corporations covering:Strategic location planning - develop a strategy for determining suitable investment locations, based on our in-house market intelligence. New location selection - identify and assess locations for a specific investment project and determine the optimal location, based on our objective analysis and powerful, proven methodologies. Consolidation / Rationalisation - develop the business case for the optimal location (e.g. following an M&A) based on a location review and financial analysis of current and potential locations. Financial project appraisal - determine which new and existing locations will deliver the best Return on Investment Site and Facility Search - identify candidate sites and facilities based on defined functional, technical and architectural requirements Case Studies:Software / IT centre site selection: OCO advised a US-based market leader in software development on site selection for a 1000 person software engineering and IT support centre. OCO identified potential Cities in India, Russia and Eastern Europe, and conducted a comprehensive assessment of each City using OCO AssessÔ. Key assessment criteria included: labour costs, office costs, size of ICT workforce, number of students in relevant subjects, quality of business and regulatory environment, track record and size of ICT industry, office availability, quality of transportation and ICT infrastructure, cost of living, and quality of life. A report was delivered to the client with recommendations on the optimal location solution. Shared services centre site selection: OCO were contracted by one of the world's largest consumer electronic companies to conduct a market analysis and location benchmarking of locations in Latin America and Asia-Pacific for global shared services centres. OCO identified the key locations to consider for shared service centres and conducted a high level assessment to identify preferred options for the client.