Today we have a guest post of Jim Turner who continues with the FM Notes from the field. Today he addresses FM in any Economy. It’s rare to encounter a real estate or facilities management professional that hasn’t experienced a hard time due to the poor economic conditions over the last year.  There is plenty [...]

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Thanks to Nancy Sanquist of Manhattan Software, Inc. iwmsnews.com is able to publish their latest whitepaper: The New Workplace Imperative: A Call to Action for Business, the Environment and People. To download the full-length paper, please visit http://usa.manhattansoftware.com/mobility. Mobility Now The new workplace imperative has been evolving over the last fifteen years. Work became untethered [...]

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A substantial innovation in business management over the last decade is the innovation of business performance management (BPM), which combines performance metrics and analysis with disciplined process design and management. Workplace performance management (WPM) is a subset of BPM and is applied to drive business improvements within real estate and facility assets and operations, which [...]

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Today, the retail industry faces daunting challenges as a result of current economic conditions and conflicting market influences. There has been a steady trend over the last five years by progressive retailers to move away from point solutions such as market analysis and planning tools, lease management applications, project management tools, and stand alone maintenance [...]

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When your organization selected a particular Integrated Workplace Management System there undoubtedly were lots of dreams about how the IWMS would improve the lives of the Facilities Management / Real Estate professionals in your organization. And? Did the IWMS improve the lives of these professionals? Not really? Don’t worry, you are not alone. 31 Days [...]

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Today on IWMSnews.com we publish a white paper that was written by Mr Barkley of the the Barkley Advisory Group, LLC. Mr. Barkley possesses a Bachelors degree in Economics and Finance from Drake University and a Masters in Corporate Real Estate (MCR) designation from CoreNet Global. He is on the faculty for CoreNet Global Learning [...]

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Today we publish a very interesting whitepaper by Michael Swanstrom (CEO, Business Integration Group). This article first appeared in the January / February 2008 issue of CoreNet Global’s LEADER magazine. Download Click to download the whitepaper.

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After our first trend analysis in May 2009 (which immediately became one of the most popular posts on iwmsnews.com) we have seen an dramatic increase of questions filling our mailboxes. This to us is a clear indication most readers are concerned with the trends in the IWMS market today. In this months’ trend analysis I’ll [...]

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