Learn the details on the new management-level process for facilities management that are yielding the lowest costs, the most efficient use of resources, the highest data integrity, the fastest cycle times, and the highest customer satisfaction. Pick up the tools, innovative ideas, metrics, and testimony behind process initiatives that focus on the top performance issues of the day:
Issue: The processes used for space and occupancy management -- a top focus area for the coming year. Plan for it. Inefficiencies and inaccurate data in this area are costing firms unnecessary staff time, delays in strategic reorganization moves, and costly underutilized space. Top management has a keen interest in how this is being done.
Issue: Performance metrics impacting compensation/reward systems. Plan for it. Metrics are no longer just for report cards. They are being engineered to change behavior and get everyone working energetically in the same economic direction.
Issue: Integrated systems and databases -- the hallmark of a well-oiled management machine. Today, there is no excuse for not having an integrated system. It is easy and inexpensive to do. Plan for it. Top management is interested in smoothly running, automated operations throughout.
Issue: The most time-consuming facilities management function: the handling of small-cap projects. Streamline this process and you’ll save millions of dollars in staff time, contracts, purchases, re-work/call-backs, and wrong work prioritization. Plan for it.
Issue: Cost-cutting through management systems and consolidation initiatives for multiple-location service contracts and leases. Plan for it. It is part of the strategic direction corporations are moving as they move toward greater centralization.
Issue: Implementing large corporate change-mandates with little or no staff. This is the major management “crunch point” this year. Plan for it. There are some new success formulas for doing this.
Issue: Too many bogged down or failed technology implementation systems. Companies are re-engineering their management formulas to get these projects back on track. Plan for it. Corporate performance, professional reputations, and jobs are at stake.
Issue: Data quality – the foundation for operational efficiency and right real estate decisions. Plan for it. Some leading firms have already implemented robust data quality assurance programs for their facilities management and real estate functions, but too many still rely on dubious, error-prone information gathering processes.
Conference reports and forums answer the following questions with specific information on specific processes at specific institutions:
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What were the characteristics of the original process?
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What were the perceived problems with the original process?
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How was the process changed?
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How does it work now?
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What are the staffing and financial implications?
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What are the relevant performance numbers?
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What special tools are involved?
Attend as a team. Make this conference an integral part of your group’s 2004-2005 business planning effort by building on the best of the best.
I look forward to seeing you in Scottsdale!
Steven L. Westfall
President
Tradeline, Inc.
Who should attend this conference?
This conference is for facilities, real estate, finance, and administrative executives from corporate, government, and academic institutions who are responsible for management-level process improvements and bottom-line financial results.
In order to maximize your conference experience, Tradeline’s unique attendance policy limits attendance by representatives of firms that provide management consulting, design, construction, contract services or products to this audience to those who are making presentations or exhibiting at this conference.
Contract service-provider personnel may apply for registration if they are attending with, or are sponsored by, a client representative. Please see Page 12 of the PRINTABLE REGISTRATION FORM for the special application for your attendance.
