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Facilities Change Management
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Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
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Modern organisations are subject to continual change - technologies evolve, organisational structures are modified, people and underlying cultures are transformed. Yet the facilities that organisations occupy are static and can impede the changes that are essential to organisational survival. The response to change in terms of property and support services is often too little too late - leading to facilities that do not support organisational reality. The facilities management team is thus constantly challenged to bridge the gap between what an organisation has and what it needs.
Facilities Change Management is a practical evaluation of the management of change for facilities managers and related professions. It considers: the forces of change affecting facilities decisions the obstacles to change at a resource level and human level the effective implementation of change the human aspect of change
Each of these is considered in relation to modern facilities management issues. The discussion will enable practising facilities managers, project managers, surveyors, service providers and architects to understand, engage with and manage facilities change effectively at a strategic level. Through real-life case studies it demonstrates the complexities of change and hidden elements of change that may undermine carefully planned projects.
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| Title of Technology eBook: Facilities Change Management | |
| Release Date: 12-16-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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Facilities Change Management
Chapter One
Facilities Change Management in ContextEdward Finch
OVERVIEW
The number of books, training seminars and missives on the subject of change management continues to grow unabated. Yet few of these consider the importance of the physical change which inevitably accompanies the change of `minds'. It is the physical change in the form of workplace redesigns, procurement of new buildings or perhaps the reengineering of a facilities service, which present the tangible evidence of change. People often discard the wise words which appear in the mission statement or the new process hardwired into the corporate intranet. If change is going to succeed, evidence suggests that a transformation in what we see, touch and experience is the only kind of change that people within an organisation are likely to understand and internalise.
How does the facilities manager achieve such transformations? A starting point in this journey is the process of `sense making' or understanding the nature of change. This chapter describes the changing landscape in which facilities management teams operate. In so doing, it seeks to contextualise facilities management. This chapter explains how each of the elements of the change management process is addressed in each of the book's chapters. This is achieved by (1) an analysis of current thinking on change management; (2) an exposition of how facilities management needs to be redefined to accommodate contemporary approaches and (3) an explanation of a framework (described as the REACTT model) which identifies the key stages of facilities change management which in turn correspond with each of the chap
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