We’ve just published our annual FM market landscape report, Trends & Opportunities.
We can’t predict the future, but we can make it happen in ways that work best for us.
I recently spent the day at Vinci’s Bedfordshire Technology Centre learning just what drones can do these days.
The latest i-FM senior leaders roundtable was held earlier in the week. There was so much input from all present that my head is still spinning.
What do people outside FM know about this industry and what would we like them to know?
I have to congratulate IWFM on a remarkably well-choreographed AGM held last week.
I sometimes feel like a broken record. I can’t recall how many times over the past many years I’ve expressed concerns over the sustainability of IWFM strategy.
The other day, I travelled across the country, then across to London’s East End in order to start work in an industrial kitchen at 8.30am.
One small side-effect of the modern world’s non-stop access to information is the proliferation of surveys and market reports.
In recent weeks we’ve seen several high-level resignations over allegations of inappropriate behaviour and/or bullying in the workplace.
The spotlight that shone so brightly on FM during the pandemic is quite evidently over and long forgotten by almost everyone today.
I know I’ve asked that question before. But this time it seems more serious.
The principles of responsible business have been around forever, varying across time and place in scope and definition, and certainly in application.
I recently attended a conference entitled WorkSpace. It was full of promise about insights into the short, medium and long-term future of the office sector.
Technology is arguably the biggest game-changer that FM faces. We all need to be ready for a new digital landscape - and start to shape what exactly it is that this holds for us.
This year’s IWFM AGM, along with the 2021 Annual Review, brought firmly to mind Eric Idle’s delightful anthem from the Monty Python film ‘The Life of Brian’. They’re just so positive!
It has never been quite as hot in the UK as it was on Tuesday, the 19th. Records were shattered, memories of the summer of ’76 were dredged up and climatological red flags were raised even higher.
FM is a funny place: a place known for continuous change, yet at the same time much of the industry goes on doing what it has always done year after year.
The cries to get back to the office can be heard all over Westminster, in some parts of the City and in some parts of the mainstream media.
The theme of last month’s Workplace Futures conference, FM and sustainability, could not have been more timely.
2021 was predicted to be a bumper year for buying and selling in FM, and so it was.
There is probably no better shorthand definition of sustainability than that.
A couple of months ago I was asked to write a comment piece about past changes in the built environment sector and what might be coming next. My answer might have been different only these few weeks later.
We will long be looking back on 2020 as a landmark year for FM, in the spotlight for facing its own challenges and simultaneously rising to the challenges of its clients.
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