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Investment Based Budgeting

Improve finance management and enterprise strategic alignment by instituting a new format for budget submissions and negotiations, termed by the author as […]

Driving Radical Change: A Case Study on Change Management

A framework for architects and designers implementing a method for managing change and planning strategy. The change process is divided into four […]

Sustainable Facility Leadership: People First!

Facility leaders can fulfill the dynamic requirements of modern FM by placing people at the center of their organizations, integrating the People, […]

High-performance Buildings Need High-performance FM

Quality frameworks and performance management systems are recommended for high-performance facility mangers to align organizational strategy and the delivery of economical, safe […]

Advice for Emerging Leaders: The Best Career Investments you Can Make

Career management advice for prospective and emergent FM leaders, addressing career development strategies for developing, early, and continued career cultivation. Advice for […]

Beyond Payback Period: Demystifying Sustainability Finance

Make the business case for sustainability initiatives by extending your finance projections past payback period alone and into sustainability plans considering return […]

Technology and the Workplace of the Future

Review of FM technology components driving strategy and change in the workplace, including a brief description of traditional and emerging technologies available […]

Facility Management: Benchmarking Business Value

Identifying the important roles of FM, benchmarking and the C-Suite, this resource offers helpful examples of FM to C-Suite communication for gaining […]

Just Go With It: Development Programming for Architects in a BIMIWMS World

Facility life cycle management linking the program of requirements (POR), building information modeling (BIM), and integrated workplace management systems (IWMS) to enable […]

The Value of Strategic HR Processes in Service Management

Service Management is about continuously creating value in the eyes of the customers. This perception of value and quality of service is […]