Unpeeling the FM Onion is the first step to engaging in efficient facilities stewardship (consistent, quality, cost effective repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds).
It’s impossible to make something more efficient if you do not understand it.
Billions of dollars are wasted every year, as well as precious, nonrenewable natural resources, due to a fundamental lack of understanding of facilities stewardship as a holistic process.
Facilities management involves social (structure and people) and technical (technology and tasks) system components. A robust process that integrates both 1.) provides realistic insight into quality, schedule, and cost outcomes and 2.0 determines overall the level of satisfaction for all participants and stakeholders.
The concept of the agile onion s (Costa et al., 2021) is based on the visibility of the power and the dynamic nature related to change, in which each layer corresponds to be considered one among the following, a methodology tool, a set of practices, principles, values, and eventually as a mindset.
The direct parallels to LEAN FM and associated robust integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery frameworks and solutions are demonstrated below.
