Strategic Facilities Management (SFM) is a strategic discipline that provides safe, healthy, reliable and productive work environments which enable the core business to achieve its objectives. It's much more than cleaning and maintenance, and it's not all about driving down cost. It's about maximizing value to the business. The SFM Community provides a platform for professionals in CoreNet Global to carry out research that expands the body of knowledge on SFM and to participate in a peer-to-peer network to connect, learn, grow and belong.
Definition of Strategic FM
1. Strategic Facilities Management is the expertise that advises the business on how to maximize the value of workplace assets, through driving down costs, maintaining business continuity, achieving sustainability, driving productivity and attracting and retaining talent, to deliver commercial objectives.
2. Strategic Facility Management is the discipline of ensuring that workspace* configuration and its associated business and infrastructure support services across an entire portfolio of owned and/or leased property (and other flexible workspace) is continuously tuned to deliver the maximum productivity of people and processes in delivering the organisation's strategic business objectives at optimum cost.
*Workspace is defined as space in which employees engage with customers, collaborate, concentrate or relax; critical facilities are securely housed, inventory is stored, and/or manufacturing processes performed.
3. Strategic Facilities Management is the optimisation of people, process and place to achieve dynamic business objectives.
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Mary Louise Gray for more information.
Useful Links
FM in relocation - White Paper
FM Making Workplace Productivity Real - White Paper
Latest Event
People vs. Economics – What is the right balance? At the top of the BT Tower
On Wednesday 6th May our CoreNet Strategic FM stream held an event to tackle some of the key challenges that occupiers face.
We explored whether FM can have a positive effect on the ability to motivate employees and generate increased productivity in the workforce. We also examined whether a company is able to generate increased revenues through increased employee satisfaction, retention and productivity, or whether it is only able to leverage facilities management as an exercise to cut its cost base.
To read more about this event click here