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Star Power: Branding Your FM Organization

In the facilities world, a successful branding initiative is about so much more than a slogan or saying, since those are marketing […]

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. […]

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 […]

General Checklist for Relocation Preparations

A brainstorm stimulator for the corporate relocation process, focusing on four main components: the company, the business, the people, and company materials. […]

Connecting the Dots Secrets for Developing Your First Strategic Facilities Plan

Define your objective and begin the planning process by following this guide of formal and informal approaches to completing your first Strategic […]

What's Your Facility's Value Proposition? Thinking and Planning Strategically

A starting point for an executive-level exchange, this piece outlines the process for defining a facility’s value proposition through strategic facility planning, […]

Communication is Key: Can you Hear Me Now?

In our FM business, ineffective communication often causes us to not receive critical needed funding and in some circumstances, even lose our […]

Who Moved the Patient? Remapping the Outpatient Cancer Experience

The UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center, constructed in 2009, is a five story, 206,000 GSF, outpatient clinic, occupied in 2010. We embarked on […]

Emergency Response Management: A Plan for Failure

Explains the importance of Emergency Response Management and planning, including the creation of developing an Emergency Preparedness Plan, a Hazard Vulnerability Plan […]

Condition Assessment: Requisite to Informed Capital Planning

Explains the three essential elements of condition assessment: inspection, assessment and estimation. Teaches a methodical approach to condition assessment and answers questions […]