Really Good FM Thinking…
A candid discussion of the World of Facilities Management and Work …with one eye on the future
It’s all about the people…
A great Guest Blog from Anthony Murphy MITIE FM (Senior Operations Manager on the IFM contract for Sellafield, all service streams, throughout the UK)
In this Blog Anthony affirms why #FM is all about getting things…Read more
Stop, Look… & more importantly….Listen
There have been a number of recent posts on LinkedIn groups and comments on Twitter asking for important skills and qualities of Facilities Managers. In a similar vein, Groups have been asking what the most…Read more
The think local; act personal paradox
With the double – dip recession well and truly under way, biting us again, where it shouldn’t, I’d say we’re currently on the ‘U’ of ‘B’ ‘U’ ‘S’ ‘T’ along this cyclical journey. You could…Read more
Guest Blog… Procurement Collaboration – A quadruple Win…
A great ‘Guest Blog,’ from Ellie Hurst (Advent IM Ltd) detailing the supplier’s view of the Procurement process and explaining how if this is done collaboratively, a Win:Win:Win:Win can be achieved for the FM, Client, Supplier…Read more
Spread the word… this is how we do it…
‘Organisational culture’ is a hard-to-define concept that many facilities managers see as outside their remit. A celebrated article by Deal and Kennedy (1982) cut through some of the ambiguity by defining organisational culture as, ‘how…Read more
Tweet-tastic m8…
Web 2.0 and 3.0 are the next step change from the Internet age of the 90′s and is where it’s now at and this technology and approach should be embraced by FM companies. Let me explain my thinking behind this.
FM Service Provider Alliances ‘versus’ Total FM? … you decide
Austerity, budget efficiencies, cost cutting, added value – yada… yada… yada
We’ve heard it all before and the reasons for it. Consider that part well and truly saved. So …
How do we in FM turn this…Read more
Everything’s linked… it’s just finding the links
I’ll never forget the lecture; it was the “Management,” module in the first year of my FM studies at the College of Estates Management.
The lecturer, as you’d expect on a post-grad course would make us…Read more
Guest Blog… Keeping a Facility Slip Free
A very apt ‘Guest Blog’ at Really Good FM thinking given the sudden change in weather. Often an area of Managing Facilities which can be overlooked for a whole host of reasons, Allyson Bryan explains…Read more
If a train station is where trains stop; a work station is…?
There is no shortage of literature and views on, “the future of Work.”
Several prominent consultancies and organisations have popped up helping people to adapt and address the changes to “Work,” which are now filtering into…Read more
To mentor or not to mentor… that is the question?
What do… Lean Processing, World Class Performance and Operations, Efficiency, Flexible Working, Hot Desking and Hotelling, Innovation, Stakeholder Management….
Partnering, Knowledge, Risk Management, Responsibility, Ownership, Achievement, Delivery and Today’s Work Today… have in common?
They are currently all…Read more
Innovation… the mother of necessity?
Rest assured that we are in for a long period, I’d say a decade at least, of pay back for the extravagance, credit, greed and spend spend spend approach which has characterised Britain over the…Read more
