The Credit Crunch is affecting every day life for some time now. Within organizations budgets have been frozen and liquidity is a big problem at the moment. Almost all organizations have cost reduction programs in place to control their spending.

In most cases cost reduction programs focus on the organizations’ staff which contributes to the destruction of knowledge capital. Instead of destroying human capital, strategic cost reduction in Facilities Management and Corporate Real Estate could potentially save millions of dollars overnight. Continue Reading

Today we have a guest post of Rich Peacock Managing Director at FM Innovations, a Division of Tecton Architects, Inc. He wrote a very interesting article about the Savings potential during the Credit Crunch. Continue Reading

Today we have a guest post of Michael Bell (Consultant and Business Writer) about IWMS and the economic crisis. His original post can viewed on his blog.

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We have entered the next stage of economic meltdown. There is no certainty how this next stage will unfold, but there are indicators including the possible nationalization of many banks, the government passage of an unprecented economic stimulus package that will pump billions of money into the domestic economy; and the increasing level of unemployment and business and personal bankruptcies well into 2009 and beyond. Continue Reading

Menlo Park, Ca. January 22, 2009 – With the new administration, a level of infrastructure investment not seen in over seventy years is expected to unfold with heightened emphasis on accountability and transparency. Public sector capital improvement and infrastructure projects are expected to receive additional scrutiny and will require greater focus on managing risk and controlling costs. According to Skire, Inc. (www.skire.com), the leading provider of infrastructure project management software, a public agency that is unable to report the use of funds quickly, accurately and transparently will be left out of funding opportunities. Continue Reading

Despite the Credit Crunch there are a number of reasons why DMU’s should invest in IWMS.

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I have recieved quite some questions from our readers to what extend vendors of Integrated Workplace Management Systems have been suffering from the Credit Crunch. Although I have already written a post about this subject the questions increasingly deal with the financial status of the vendors themselves. Continue Reading

A new year is about to start and although this should be time of laughter and sheer joy unfortunately 2009 is not. As the majority of US and European corporations feel the bitterness of the financial crisis corporate investments in Integrated Workplace Management Systems have been reduced to an absolute minimum. Continue Reading