Tag: collaboration

Last week I posted about the concept of Quality Circles in Quality Circles-Improving the Improvement System. In that post, I covered an introduction to Quality Circles together with the definition and philosophy surrounding its practice. In summary, th...

In last weeks post, ISO 44,001- Is Collaboration Essential to Future Outsourcing Success? I set out in the importance of new ways of working from a collaborative standpoint. This week  I want to dive into the recognition that all relationships have a c...

The British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) announced last week that it is changing its name to the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management. Furthermore, it has begun the process to become a chartered body in the UK. With the histori...

There is an overdue and chronic need to develop a preferred partner approach that demonstrates the value of Facilities Management to our Customers …not merely point at it. However, there is a deeply entrenched view amongst procurement professionals tha...

Last week I posted about the concept of Quality Circles in Quality Circles-Improving the Improvement System. In that post, I covered an introduction to Quality Circles together with the definition and philosophy surrounding its practice. In summary, th...

As Workplace Professionals and Facilities Managers we are constantly under pressure to deliver innovation in what we do, how we do it and how we charge for it. I believe that we need a perspective shift in how we approach innovation. As a prelude to a ...

How do you know if you have made the right choice in outsourcing your non-core activities? How do you know if you have the best outsourcing partner? In this post I want to explore the 2 meta competencies that must exist in an optimal outsourcing relati...

In my last post, I expounded on Co-collaboration as being the way forward in terms of delivering real value in outsourcing. Having written the post it occurred to me that I had been presumptuous in a universal understanding of the word collaboration. I...