Facilities Change Management - Finch, Edward (John Wiley & Sons, 2011)
7.3.1 Facility Audit (Performance Evaluation of the Building Infrastructure)
References2 Change Readiness; Chapter Overview; 2.1 Service Providers and Partnering; 2.2 Outsourcing Relationships; 2.3 The FM Supply Chain; 2.4 Flexibility in Support of Change Readiness; 2.5 Building Design Decisions and Flexibility; 2.6 Types of Flexibility; 2.7 Conclusions; References; 3 Form, Function and the Economics of Change; Chapter Overview; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Changing Demands; 3.3 Designing for Adaptability; 3.4 Adaptive Re-use; 3.5 Conclusions; 3.6 Acknowledgements; References; 4 The Change Management Challenge in Growth Firms; Chapter Overview; 4.1 Introduction
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 Cha