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Workplace Resilience When a Disaster Strikes: Strategic Questions to Keep the Workplace Productive

Workplace strategy plays a vital role in business resilience as people, place and technology are critical to resuming operations after a disaster. […]

Crafting Alliances: Enabling Better CEO Decisions on Real Estate and Workplace Strategy

This article provides tips on crafting an alliance to help CEOs make informed decisions and use the workplace for better business results. […]

Driving Impactful Workplace Conversations

To effectively lead workplace change, FMs must work regularly with the C-suite, HR, IT, Finance, etc. and hold strategic and tactical conversations […]

First Steps to Successful Deployment of BIM for Health Care Operations

This white paper offers health care facility managers a starting point for determining how to apply the overwhelming amount of data captured […]

Top 5 Missteps in a Workplace Transformation

Many organizations consider their move or workplace redesign as a distraction or a necessary evil, while a strategic facility manager sees it […]

Data-driven Decision Making Using Enterprise GIS

This white paper describes how an enterprise geospatial information system (GIS) may be used to consolidate, visualize and convert data to useful […]

Developing a Planned Maintenance Program That Aims Towards a Preventative Mindset: A Case Study in FM Leadership

This proposal documents the process of creating a formal maintenance plan where none previously existed, with key components that facilitate and align […]

Why Outlook Is Not the Best Facility Scheduling Software

Encouraging FMs to look beyond Outlook to a flexible, scalable scheduling solution, the case is made for alternative solutions that offer ease […]

Place Matters: The Changing Urban Landscape for Real Estate and Location Decisions

In this article, the authors address three questions: Where are workplaces today (and will there be a change in location decisions); what […]

Construction Planning

A step-by-step explanation that can be used to develop understanding of the entire construction process or to checklist plans for a construction […]