Frank and Brown

FMX is published this week and I am unashamedly using it to run my own mini-campaign to stir up debate about facilities management and healthcare. So, imagine my delight when David Cameron started a discussion that complemented my ideas. (more…)

Passion is a word that has come up in my work a lot in the past few weeks. I’ve interviewed someone that is passionate about great coffee; talked to a woman in FM whose passion for doing things well and in the right manner has enabled her to keep working with a broken leg andto recover from breast cancer, plus commented on how someone’s passion has led them to resign from the British Institute of Facilities Management. (more…)

 With a career in newspapers, magazines and PR (albeit almost entirely within the built environment) I make no apology for seeking headline making stories.  So, it gives me no pleasure at all to report that it seems right now that nothing radical is going on in facilities management apart from a scramble to provide the same level of service for less cash. (more…)

Having signed off a leader column for FMX that makes reference to the Lib-Con coalition and imminent cuts I’m in the mood to wax lyrical about what George Osborne’s plans might mean and repurcussions further down the line. I accept cuts need to be made, but I lean towards to the Vince Cable (i.e. his views before the election) perspective and I certainly don’t agree with what appear to be punishing restraints on spending across the public sector. (more…)

The election is over, we have a result and life goes on. That is the harsh reality, we have all got to grin and bear it and do our day jobs whilst the politicians get to grips with the ‘big issues’. But on day-to-day basis, the respective problems we all grapple with are just as important. Julie Kortens, featured in FMX this month as head of FM for Channel 4, gets to have a glimpse of both worlds. (more…)