Looking to the Future
In recent years, a heightened awareness of the FM sector has been evident, driven by a number of factors including:
- Interest in outsourcing as a ‘hot’ management topic.
- Heavy media coverage of PFI/PPP initiatives and,
- Increasing attention being paid to the sector by the financial community.
Facilities Management is a vital strategic discipline because it ‘translates’ the high-level, strategic change required by senior decision makers into day-to-day reality for people in their work or living space.
Excellent Facilities Management can, amongst other things:
- Deliver effective management of an organisation’s assets.
- Enhance the skills of people within the FM sector and provide identifiable and meaningful career options.
- Enable new working styles and processes – vital in this technology-driven age.
- Enhance and project an organisation’s identity and image.
- Help the integration processes associated with change, post-merger or acquisition.
- Deliver business continuity and workforce protection in an era of heightened security threats.
Successful organisations in future will approach FM as an integral part of their strategic plan. Those organisations that treat FM as a ‘commodity overhead’ will be at a significant strategic disadvantage.
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