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Facility planning in operations management: Aligning space, assets, and service delivery

Facility planning in operations management: Aligning space, assets, and service delivery

Most facility planning decisions require tradeoffs. Reducing space can affect service levels. Extending asset life can increase maintenance demands. New investments can improve performance while creating long-term operating costs. A systematic planning process helps you evaluate those decisions using reliable, reportable data instead of assumptions. By connecting information from space utilization, asset performance, and service […]

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This August Marks 20 Years of Making HR a Little Less Evil — Improve Your HR

This August Marks 20 Years of Making HR a Little Less Evil — Improve Your HR

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Level of Repair Analysis: Improving asset lifecycle decisions

Level of Repair Analysis: Improving asset lifecycle decisions

When production stops, the costs quickly extend beyond parts and labor to include lost output, delayed shipments, disrupted schedules, and overtime for maintenance and operations teams. As costs increase, deciding whether to continue repairing an asset or replace it becomes a much more significant business decision. Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) helps you make those

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The First Rule of Litigation PR Is Silence. Here’s Why JPMorgan Just Broke It — Improve Your HR

The First Rule of Litigation PR Is Silence. Here’s Why JPMorgan Just Broke It — Improve Your HR

This second filing added multiple complaints, bringing the total to 21 against his former employer. If the complaints are true, it’s a completely shocking story, indicating horrible behavior among senior leaders at JPMorgan. Employees file lawsuits all the time, and we often don’t know the outcome because they settle quietly, and without a trial we

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What FMs need to know to stay ahead

What FMs need to know to stay ahead

Facility management has always been about keeping buildings running efficiently. Today, it’s about something much bigger. A typical morning might involve reviewing occupancy data before a leadership meeting, responding to an equipment alert generated overnight, preparing compliance documentation for an upcoming audit, and evaluating whether space usage supports changing business needs. These responsibilities are no

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The First Rule of Litigation PR Is Silence. Here’s Why JPMorgan Just Broke It — Improve Your HR

This Seemingly Innocent HR Practice Is a Massive Liability Waiting to Be Exploited — Improve Your HR

If you have employees, you could face an employment lawsuit one day. It isn’t just something that “happens to other people.” Of course, the best way to avoid a lawsuit is not to break the law in the first place, but that doesn’t reduce your risk to zero. How you handle problem employees makes all the

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How to right-size real estate

How to right-size real estate

For years, workplace teams measured occupancy to answer a simple question: How full is the office? Today, that question isn’t enough. Corporate real estate leaders are being asked to reduce costs, support hybrid work, improve employee experience, and justify every square foot they manage. Occupancy and utilization metrics have become part of those conversations because

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