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Facilitate - Condition monitoring
It’s not easy talking about the imminent shifting of political sands when you’re producing a comment piece two days out from a general election.
Facilitate - Irresistible forces
Several people have mused recently on the subject of cultural change, or rather the lack of it. They point out that from one 20th century decade to the next we experienced kaleidoscopic change in fashion, art, music, architecture and more.
Facilitate - Disruptive influences
Welcome to the March/April 2024 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - Reassembly instructions
Welcome to the January/February 2024 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - A portrait of progress
Welcome to the November/December 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - 30 years advancing the profession
Welcome to the September/October 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - Access = success
Welcome to the July/August 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - 2030 fortitude
Welcome to the May/June 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - conversion equations
Welcome to the March/April 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - fixing the focus
Welcome to the January/February 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - badge of honour
Welcome to the November/December 2022 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - out of focus
Welcome to the September/October 2022 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - Star players
While a brief and enjoyable detour back to 2012 has informed one of our features for this edition, back in the present a period of serious uncertainty is setting in. Inflation is always a horribly pernicious phenomenon, but the pricing of facilities service provision has evolved over decades without the kind of price surge we’re currently seeing.
Facilitate - Who do we think we are?
If I have a clear messagethis month, it’s that there can be times when clarity becomes fogged – because ‘wriggle room’ clouds it. The bimester* just passed has seen this sector’s famous adaptability to circumstance highlighted again, just as happened when the pandemic hit, and just as happens on a day-to-day basis.
Facilitate - Fitness for purpose
Print deadlines are rarely an editor’s friend, and that’s certainly the case as we respond to a sudden, ugly war in Ukraine likely to prove life changing for all of us in one way or another.
Facilitate - Bringing it into balance
Not much point my opening this year with a message about uncertainty, the continuing use of that ’U’ word being about the only certainty of 2022.
Facilitate - Making headway
So much for ‘normality’. As of October a majority of office workers remain non-office based, commuter train journeys at less than half their pre-pandemic levels.
Facilitate - Cultivating hybrid
One in three of these leader comments over the years has focused on some kind of emergent opportunity; a chance for this profession to step up and see through a transformative organisational change in response to legislative, technological or economic drivers.
Facilitate - Net zero sum games
One conversation I had as we prepared this edition focused on the impact of artificial intelligence now and in the near future.
Facilitate - Thought code
One key aspect of the pandemic has been a greater collective appreciation of communities and the roles we play in them.
