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Critical Facilities - Risk Management: The Human Factor
Building Operating Management Magazine
In critical facilities, failure isn't an option. Preventing failure means focussing on the most likely issues, the human issues.
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Improve Efficiency PDF Print Email

Improving Efficiency will help reduce costs and give you and your facilities or property team more time to deal with long-term issues instead of spending wasted time on inefficient processes, cumbersome systems and minor issues.

Our experience in operating buildings and facilities in large distributed portfolios both in-house and as an outsourcing provider as well as our external, non-biased viewpoint will help find areas that need improvement then do the analysis and research necessary, develop strategies, establish implementation plans and implement with you. Whatever Real Estate you are responsible for, you can make improvements.

Examples include:

  • Pre-implementation strategy and planning for new systems, including CAFM, CMMS, Help Desk and other FM Systems. Figure out what you need before you buy the system.
  • System implementation, training, auditing.
  • Assessing current systems and processes not being used effectively.
  • Conducting a Facility Management Assessment Program / Audit on your operations to compare to leading practices, identify opportunities and help establish your strategic plan. This can include benchmarking.
  • Develop and implement efficient processes within your organization for all facility and real estate operations functions, including work order handling, preventive maintenance, capital planning and justifications, etc.
  • Facilitating meetings with your team to identify solutions and enhance teamwork, building on their strengths.
  • Provide training and re-training on existing or new processes and systems.

Many of our individual services can help you improve efficiency, however a customized service scope will usually give you the best results, so please contact us to discuss your needs, or even help identify your needs, and we can build the right services for you, whether for small, short projects, or larger long term projects.

Contact Michel now by email or phone to discuss. Click here to visit our contact page.

 
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