Best value FM (facilities management) involves change management. While many organizations are demanding more, despite the availability of fewer resources, few facilities management professionals can meet the challenge.
Achievement of basic goals, such as those listed below, is attainable only through changing the ‘status quo’.
- Reduce operating costs
- Improve overall satisfaction
- Extend asset life
Fortunately all the tools and support services are readily available to any facilities management professional that has the leadership skills to promote positive change.
LEAN FM FUNDAMENTALS
- Collaborative focus upon outcomes
- Common data environment with full financial and technical transparency (example – locally researched detailed line item unit price book organized using CSI Masterformat)
- Owner leadership and competency
- Long-term multi-party, mutually beneficial, performance-based agreements
- Enabling technologies that embed robust, proven processes, workflows, and information
