Culture… The Living Wage and FM 16 Dec 201316 Dec 2013 This Month's Tomorrow's FM Water Cooler posed the following hot potato of a question…. ‘Is the living wage a realistic target for the FM industry or simply a feather in…
Collaboration… Mergers and Acquisitions… 18 Apr 201318 Apr 2013 This Month's Water Cooler topic from the @TomorrowsFM team... According to analysis by business advisers, Grant Thornton UK LLP, the value of FM merger and acquisition deals in 2012 increased…
Collaboration… Total Facilities Management – A contradiction in terms…? 19 Mar 201319 Mar 2013 A recent research project by Interserve, looking into the shape of FM procurement suggested that due to the poor returns from outsourcing, the industry is moving more towards procuring integrated…
Collaboration… Paperless Business… 22 Feb 201322 Feb 2013 The second in a series of @TomorrowsFM Water Cooler responses.... this months topic..... Paperless Business Yesterday, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt suggested that he would like to the NHS become paperless…
Collaboration… Innovation… the mother of necessity (#2) 29 Jan 20133 Mar 2013 This post has been taken directly from the regular Tomorrow's FM Water Cooler feature - which can be found here http://content.yudu.com/A211nx/TFMJan2013/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl= In response to the following: “Innovation is one…
Culture… A new kind of leadership… 7 Dec 20127 Dec 2012 It's been a while but it's great to finally get a chance to update my Really Good FM Thinking page with a blog that I've been planning to write for some time, but just…
Facilities Management… Simply common sense… or otherwise 4 Jun 20124 Jun 2012 HRH Queen Elizabeth II and the Monarchy in general, possibly one of the most sustainable institutions in the UK and Commonwealth of our modern time... perhaps they have adapted more…
Culture… It’s all about the people… 31 Mar 201231 Mar 2012 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…
Facilities Management… The think local; act personal paradox 10 Dec 201110 Dec 2011 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…
Collaboration… Guest Blog… Procurement Collaboration – A quadruple Win… 26 Sep 201126 Sep 2011 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…
Culture… Spread the word… this is how we do it… 10 Aug 201110 Aug 2011 '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…
Collaboration FM Service Provider Alliances ‘versus’ Total FM? … you decide 30 Jan 201122 Jul 2011 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 ...…
Management Everything’s linked… it’s just finding the links 9 Dec 201022 Jul 2011 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…
Health & Safety Guest Blog… Keeping a Facility Slip Free 30 Nov 201022 Jul 2011 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…
Work If a train station is where trains stop; a work station is…? 23 Nov 201022 Jul 2011 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…
Mentoring To mentor or not to mentor… that is the question? 31 Oct 201022 Jul 2011 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…
Innovation Innovation… the mother of necessity? 23 Oct 201022 Jul 2011 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…
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