IFM Expert Perspective: The Dangers and Opportunities of Snow Removal By Mike, Feb 5, 2021 3:02:18 PM Over the next year, Flagship will be working with different experts within our team to provide you with a professional perspective to your facility and its inner workings. Look for upcoming webinars (Peace, Love and IFM) and blogs (Expert Perspective) to get an insider’s view of what it’s like to deal with everything FM. A conversation with Flagship’s Mike Thompson, President, Integrated Facilities Management. Mike has more than 20 years’ experience in IFM, including operations across regulated manufacturing sites, R&D campuses, distribution centers, retail banking, and data operations centers. I’ve been thinking about a topic for my first blog entry, and it dawned on me while I was clearing over eight inches of snow from my driveway and walks (with still more expected), that maybe snow removal would be a good topic to cover . . . sure if you’re in Florida, Texas, California, etc., snow removal isn’t really a thing. But in Chicago, it’s a thing. Funny fact, a pet peeve of mine is when people compare the business of FM to their homes. “You know when I renovated my basement, I didn’t need a permit.” If I had a dollar for every executive who uttered those words during a project I was managing, I’d have a few dollars. Yet here I am doing just that. . . apologies to all the FMs out there who share my pet peeve. For a facility manager (FM), snow presents a number of unique challenges. Good FMs always think in terms of Safety-Cost-Quality-Delivery-People (citing my friends and two of the best FMs I know, Cameron MacKenzie and Jeff Kistler who taught me about how to think about FM operations in this way), and SCQDP definitely applies to snow removal. Read more »
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