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Starting a new year is usually accompanied with resolutions. These resolutions often only last a couple of days / weeks; however sometimes people actually succeed. My resolution for 2010 is to help organizations to reduce costs using an IWMS.

Reducing costs is on every CEO / CFO’s agenda nowadays, and is the driving force behind a lot of implementations of Integrated Workplace Management Systems. I have already written quite a few posts about cost reductions however, reading Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” during the holiday season, inspired me to write new series of cost reduction posts.

For those of you, who are not familiar with Sun Tzu or “The Art of War”, please find a description below.

Sun Tzu was an ancient Chinese military general and strategist who is traditionally believed to have authored The Art of War, an influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy considered to be a prime example of Taoist thinking. Sun Tzu has had a significant impact on Chinese and Asian history and culture, both as an author of The Art of War and through legend. During the 19th and 20th centuries, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War grew in popularity and saw practical use in Western society, and his work has continued to influence both Asian and Western culture and politics. (Source: Wikipedia)

Reading “The Art of War” triggered me to change my point of view on cost reductions in organizations. In the coming series I will consider cost reductions as warfare, and I will use “The Art of War” as my manual.  In the next weeks I will write the following posts about cost reductions:

1. Laying Plans
2. Waging War
3. Attack by Stratagem
4. Tactical Dispositions
5. Energy
6. Weak Points and Strong
7. Maneuvering
8. Variation of Tactics
9. The Army on the March
10. Terrain
11. The Nine Situations
12. The Attack by Fire
13. The Use of Spies

I’m looking forward to writing it!

Yours Sincerely,

Steven Hanks

Dear Readers,

I want to start by saying:
thank you so much for your patience and your greatly valued support.

Over the last couple of months we have worked intensively to fill in the gap that Gartner left, when they announced not publishing the Magic Quadrant for Integrated Workplace Management Systems in 2009. We have analyzed all important vendors in the industry, and have created a 30-page Vendor Evaluation Report for Integrated Workplace Management Systems. Continue Reading

Dear Readers,

This week we will publish the IWMS Vendor Evaluation for Integrated Workplace Management Systems here on IWMSnews.com. The 30-page report contains valuable information for those of you that are going to purchase an IWMS, those of you that have already purchased an IWMS and vendors of Integrated Workplace Management Systems. Continue Reading

I have received a lot of feedback on the 31 Day Challenge to Improve your IWMS Implementation.

Most of the questions were about the challenge itself however, strangely I noticed a trend in questions over the last couple of days. Readers seemed to be concerned about what we are going to do here on IWMSnews.com. Some of them included:

What will be next on IWMSnews.com?Is there going to be a new challenge focused on another part of  Integrated Workplace Management Systems? Are you up for another challenge?

These questions triggered me a lot, I must admit. After several discussions with experts in this domain, I’m very pleased to be able to announce a new challenge that IWMSnews.com is going to publish in the coming period. Continue Reading

Thank you all for your wonderful comments and much appreciated feedback about the 31 Day Challenge. Some of you have requested a full list with hyperlinks to the daily posts.

Please find this list below: Continue Reading

One of the most underestimated aspects of IWMS implementation projects is the aftercare for your IWMS and staff. Although aftercare is quite common within Sales or the Medical domain, in implementation projects it is not. Therefore today you are going to focus on aftercare. Continue Reading