Date: 30 April 2010
A new management tool developed by Advanced Workplace Associates allows organisations to analyse and research the effectiveness of real estate and facilities functions and set a plan for moving to a future workplace management model in just one week.
AWA’s computer-based Workplace Management Development tool (WMD) is designed to allow large organisations a rapid review of their current workplace management capabilities against best practice. WMD lets organisations assess the quality of their real estate and facilities function, rate their FM partner, and discover the actions needed to align function with the business needs to develop processes, people and skills to meet the challenges of an advanced workplace.
With its substantial workplace management experience with a host of major international organisations, AWA has been able to develop and automate much of its process and combine it into a sophisticated tool which analyses skills, practices and processes.
According to AWA director, Andrew Mawson, the new tool cuts through the early labour-intensive, yet crucial, research and analysis process and enables organisations to identify rapidly what must be done to move to more efficient workplace management model.
“WMD can cut to just one week the painstaking research needed by an organisation to start to develop advanced ways of working.” says Mawson. “WMD quickly assesses the current state of an organisation and provides the baseline for its development activities. By assessing nearly 300 best practices in ten management processes, it provides in just five days an incisive analysis of an organisation which would normally take external consultants up to eight weeks to achieve. It is of particular use as an audit tool for an organisation about to experience change, such as new leadership or moving to new premises.”
In developing WMD, AWA has taken all the knowledge of its senior team, blended it with its library of best practices, added leading thinking on workplace management and embedded it in a computer-based tool that enables a rapid assessment of the real estate and facilities function against AWA’s vision for workplace management.
Because the assessment is done over a short period, the team is able to focus on the project in hand, resulting in better understanding and commitment to change. Weighting of the strategic importance of functions, such as client relationship management or supply chain management, gives additional focus on the outcome and emphasis required.
The assessment can involve the in-house team and supply partners and can be used as a team building event. In addition, the action plans and programmes can be used for objective setting and for reviewing strategic progress.
“This unique combination produces a tool which allows for a highly interactive and intense process in which the senior leaders of real estate and facilities management team work together to assess the effectiveness of the organisation and determine an action plan for the development of their capabilities and practices,” concludes Mawson.
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For demonstrations and media trials of AWA’s Workplace Management Development tool contact:
David Armstrong/Rebecca Hadley on 020 7808 7997
Founded in 1992, AWA works to deliver technologically and behaviourally complex projects to transform work, the workplace and workplace management
