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Facility Management, the invisible hand

I’m regularly asked: “What exactly is Facility Management?” This question typifies the position Facility Management often finds itself in: indispensable, yet invisible. Indispensable because many building functions are essential to guarantee the comfort, well-being, safety, and productivity of employees working in a building. Invisible because many tasks and processes happen behind the scenes. When everything […]

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How many charging stations do you need?

Facility Management, Infrastructure / By lucsmet

Determining the number of charging stations needed for your company’s parking lot is crucial. You want to ensure that your employees have convenient access to charging, but at the same time, you don’t want to overspend. While the charging stations are visible, the invisible infrastructure and network that power them rely on copper wiring, which

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Building a healthy planet

Book review, Sustainability / By lucsmet

Sustainability is a hot topic these days and more and more companies are increasing their efforts to put the 17 United Nations SDGs into practice, which is of course a positive evolution. However, looking at the initiatives most companies take, two common tracks seem to be popular. The first track I call “the obvious track”,

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What leadership boils down to

Leadership / By lucsmet

In the early 2000’s I was working as an Operations Manager for Rogers Corporation. It was my first management assignment and, as an engineer, I was struggling with the people aspect of the job. I had to lead a team of engineers and operators in a whole new manufacturing environment and I wasn’t sure whether

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Acceptance is key

Change Management / By lucsmet

Have you ever introduced a new technology that was really top-notch, but no one used it? Maybe you forgot to work on the acceptance part upfront. When introducing a technical solution, a new technology, a business transformation, or a change initiative in general, the Effectiveness of it is ruled by its Quality. We all find that pretty obvious and

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5,460 miles from Silicon Valley: a review

Book review / By lucsmet

We all know those famous brilliant couples like Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak and Bill Gates & Paul Allen. Their appealing stories have been told quite often and their companies – Apple and Microsoft – today are extremely successful and economically and socially very influential. In the tradition of two men starting an IT company

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