benchmarking

I'm about to set out on this little, task for a number of services.

Some i'm looking at, I'll try to bundle together, like cctv, fire alarm (red care), intruder alarm and access control system.
L8 is pretty much self explanatory,  as is anything to do with plumbing and electrical.

if my bench marking is all about getting best price, then that's all i'm looking at in my benchmarking process along with the way the quote is presented and reputation.

Facilities Management is not hard

Being a facilities manager is not difficult, providing you have a full set off tools available.
A lot of fm is all about finding solutions to problems and 'lessons learnt', lots of the problems re-occur/ are repetitive, but once one has learnt the lesson, re-read the script and repeat the process in less time, for a quick solution.
The tool kit can be anything from literally tools to service providers, access to parts suppliers or the ultimate a total facilities management provider, if your business can afford it.
Its also is your common sense and expertise in the FM field from some sort of perspective


 we have to innovate as well where unusual situations occur, normally more than once at a time, the other week I was trying to sort a spreadsheet and budgets out, then it was discovered one of our showers had been left on and was trying to flood our basement, adjacent to our data centre. needless to say i dropped everything to mop up the mess and pulled another of my staff members off other tasks, as this was importanat and the only wet vac we had was useless.


That's what doing FM is like, diverse, multifaceted, innovative, one needs to be FM smart, think out of the box, use investigative root cause analysis techniques, i believe my back ground in electrical/ mechanical/electronics/ maintenance/ engineering/ IT technology is an ideal background and expertise.
keep it simple keep it #fm#noreinventingthewheelthanks

looking forward to 2013

back to work on weds 3rd Jan, i wonder what the building mods will look like and if they are finished

its going to be an exciting 6 months to come if only that i have a load of hard service contrcts to sort out

our waste provider is changing on 5th Jan and there are other soft services i'm looking at to make more efficient and save costs

and i personally have a number of hurdles to cross this year; the result of my NEBOSH is due by mid Feb, my birthday the same month and later in the year a life changing event, that will mean i'll be off work for a while.. scary and yet excited..!

and i need to blog more to keep up with Jason

happy new year to all,i hope your dreams are fulfilled... and stay safe