Facilities management : innovation and performance / / edited by Keith Alexander. [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783658103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Spon Press, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-134-35689-7; 1-138-17234-0; 1-134-35690-0; 1-280-06285-1; 9786610062850; 6610062854; 0-203-09374-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (174 p.)
• Classificazione: 85.05
• Altri autori (Persone): AlexanderKeith
• Disciplina: 658.2
• Soggetti: Facility management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Organisational change and learning : an introduction / Keith Alexander -- Space place and people : facilities management and critical theory / Bob Grimshaw -- Organisational change, representations and facilities / Michael Fenker -- Space use among growth companies : linking the theories / Jan Bröchner and Paul Dettwiler -- Innovation and the innovative workplace : an introduction / Brian Atkin -- Why do real estate actors weight adaptability differently for office buildings? / Kirsten Arge -- Towards a more sustainable industrial workplace / John Hudson -- The emergence of supply chain management as a strategic facilities management tool / Margaret-Mary Nelson -- Performance : an introduction / Jan Bröchner -- Business-related performance measures for facilities management / John Hinks -- Developing balanced scorecards for facilities management / Dilanthi Amaratunga and David Baldry -- Towards knowledge workplaces : an introduction / Tore I. Haugen -- The knowledge workplace : what really matters / Linariza Haron -- Towards typologies of knowledge work and workplaces / Reidar Gjersvik and Siri H. Blakstad -- Appendix : A European ; workplace knowledge network / Keith Alexander.
• Sommario/riassunto: Facilities Management sets out a new framework for the discipline of facilities management which challenges many of the norms and which sets out new methods for optimising the performance of a business. Successful facilities managers need a range of skills and need to be able to devise a range of innovative strategies for the future of the organisations in which they work.This new book follows on directly from Keith Alexander's ground-breaking textbook Facilities Management and focuses on four new themes which have been identified as keys to the new strategy: organisa