Are you – as facility or property manager – focusing on the right things?

Are you – as facility or property manager – focusing on the right things?“Thank you for all the great work you’ve done this year. Can you do the same next year, but with ten percent less budget?”. If you recognise this question, you might ask yourself whether you are being sufficiently strategic. If you truly want to be beneficial at a strategic level, it is not about saving money, but about actually delivering added value. But what exactly does the added value consist of?

This is a question which is regularly discussed within the occupational group and to which the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) is attempting to formulate an answer. Following IFMA’s 2013 World Workplace, the organisation has released the ‘Facility Management Trend Report: Emerging Opportunities for Industry Leaders’, which explains what property and facility managers should or could do to be better recognised for their…