
Office staff can still be productive in summer without wearing shorts
Discussion on whether to wear shorts or not, the speed of the fan, or introducing a tropical work schedule when it is extremely hot are not unfamiliar office topics in summer. One colleague thinks…
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Pay as much attention to your sensors as you do to your dog
Using sensors is a much discussed topic in the field of Facility Management. Sensors provide organisations with information on buildings or assets, and they enable areas such as…
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Tales on IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT)… I cannot think of any other more widely discussed topic in our field of work today. My mailbox is effectively being spammed with loads...
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Is the Internet of Things a 'game changer' for managing buildings and building-related installations?
IoT developments are making real-time measurement possible for facility managers, enabling immediate intervention if the situation requires it.
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Does the generation gap really exist in the workplace?
The average workplace doesn’t connect very well with future generation of employees: the app generation. These are the findings of a recent study on the impact of…
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What real estate management and facility management can learn from marketing
Our entire market principle rests on two cornerstones: supply and demand. The place where these two meet is where economic transactions happen - and where we…
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Are you smarter than a smart meter?
For more than a decade the utility industry has been in transition. The expansive introduction and implementation of smart meters that report consumption…
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Did Google really get it wrong? Workplace misery and other casualties.
An article recently published in the Washington Post sparked some internal discussion at Planon. In her article, Lindsey Kaufman describes her bad experiences…
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The student as an engaged stakeholder in facilities management
For many years, considerable research has been conducted to determine what factors drive a student’s decision when choosing a school. Colleges and universities…
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What does the word ‘smart’ actually mean (and why a ‘smart meter’ isn’t ‘smart’)?
Some of my best friends in the profession work in marketing. Before you read any further: I am not just talking about the marketers who work for Planon. Some of them...
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Smart travelling / Smart working
As a student I was pretty good at sensing just where to stand on the platform to line up with the train doors. That meant that no matter how…
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No bad blood in the workplace with technology from Spectre
Injecting nanotechnology into someone’s blood to track where he/she is physically as well as their mental state; is it really science fiction? In the latest Spectre movie…
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Where will you meet in the offices of the future?
Picture the busiest day at work. Everyone is in the office and all the desks and workspaces are occupied. However, for the rest of the week many people are out of the…
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Choices when designing an IWMS
Once you have decided to move forward with an IWMS solution, many more choices await around the corner. The implementation process is a series of choices: What…
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Five reasons why you should implement an IWMS
The challenges for international businesses when deciding to carry out an international software implementation are great. These types of projects will encompass multiple sites, multiple countries, and therefore multiple cultures, specific legislations and local business customs add fundamental challenges to the project. Therefore the question “Why did we embark this international implementation project?” will pop up many times during the project.
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