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The Human Touch: FM Can’t Work Without It
The brave new world of AI and IoT is changing the face of facilities management. Smart buildings notify the authorities when there’s an emergency like a water leak or a security breach. They send out reminders when maintenance should be scheduled. They use energy...

When Mission and Resources Diverge – The Museum Conflict
A recent poll found that the public considers museums to be “the guardians of factual information” – a valuable function in the era of fake news and lack of trust in traditional organizations. Poll respondents felt that the care and preservation of heritage, and the...

Your Office Shows How Much You Trust Your Team
Trust – we all agree it’s fundamental to any organization. Employees have to trust their bosses, managers have to trust their staff, customers have to trust the business. And it’s far easier said than done. How do you create a work environment that reinforces trust...

Losing Faith in the Open Office Plan?
Businesses have bought in to the open office plan in a big way. It’s a definite money-saver, requiring 50%-75% fewer square feet per employee than enclosed offices or cubicles. And compared to “cubicle farms,” an open office is a visually welcoming environment that...

Assets Hiding in Plain Sight: Unstructured Data
In recent years, film studios have begun to mine the vast pool of digital assets found within their films, creating a new and growing income stream for the studios. Each movie is a mass of unstructured data, containing visual effects shots, drone shots, audio...

How Co-Working Is Bringing Agility to Big Business
Coworking is the new normal, claims Cecilia Amador in AllWork.space, the flexible workspace newsletter. Amador points to statistics from Cushman & Wakefield, Emergent Research, and others that show the extraordinary growth of coworking: 20% annual growth in major...