The foundation for any facility management streamlining initiative is an automated system for acquiring quality data. This requires a major time and money commitment to get such a system in place, but without it you will fail. The automation of data collection is essential for measure. Manual data collection should be done away with. Web-based data collection tools have become the standard; they push data gathering down to the grassroots level and get user buy-in because they are easy to use.

- From Tradeline's New Management & Operations Strategies for Technically Complex Facilities Conference 2005

Streamlining defined.