Evolution of Facilities Management Ask any FM and they will tell you that the face of Facilities Management has changed greatly over the last decade, resulting in businesses no longer looking at the financial cost of support Departments in general as money through gritted teeth. For those unaware, Facilities Management is, of course, a profession […]
Facility Managers should try to maintain a significant role in Business Continuity – they manage the 2nd largest and most important business “assets” (after IT) on which day-to-day business operations rely. Many Facilities Management (FM) departments are often not included from the planning process, either because BIA surveys skew a focus toward IT dependencies and […]
Our society is changing. ‘Us’ is becoming the new ‘me’. Access to items is becoming more important than actually possessing them. We are currently in the midst of a transition to a circular, sharing economy in which we make more efficient use of everything we already have. We are now looking to share, lend/borrow and […]
The conceptualized trend of Hospitality and Facility management offers value and benefits to the clients, Now days across the world the zings of the outsourced hospitality are leaned with a very strong sense of community, and we want to stay. Current business intelligence enables us to anticipate, identify and react to changes in each of […]
Facilities Management is the practice of supporting and enhancing the modern day businesses’ core practices and ROI by focusing on all aspects of the business. Leading facilities managers must wear many hats and wear them all well. Through the efficient management and modernization of an organization’s assets and procedures, today’s FMs make their company relevant […]
FM services can be outsourced on insourced. One way or another you must have a scope of work, a set of information in order to know what is needed, when, how, by whom…to have a documented process of operations and management. This SOW should include: Assets inventory: a clear and accurate list of location, buildings […]
In the facilities management (FM) function, use of a balanced scorecard enables companies to evaluate the performance of their external providers against multiple criteria (Figure 1), help set alignment and focus, identify improvement opportunities, enhance performance reporting, and conduct constructive discussions with their FM providers. In a sense, the balance scorecard process for FM service […]
How does a large, diverse, and dynamic Facility respond to the constant requests for new and additional space? This is one of main parts of Facilities Management: Space Planning. The facility planning role involves programming, working to understand how the space was used previously, the current status of the space, and what the future plan is […]
The British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) defines Facilities Management (FM) as: ‘The integration of processes within an organisation to maintain and develop the agreed services which support and improve the effectiveness of the client’s primary activities.’ FM can also be defined as the provision of services that support a client’s wider business activities, and allow that […]
With increased Process & systems within facilities management function, there is a need for facilities manager to constantly monitor the trends to analyse the broad spectrum of categories in Facilities Management. Today the key challenge for facilities manager is to build a Metric driven function where data influence decision making. Carly Fiorina, former chief executive […]