Category: Productivity

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World FM Day 2026: cultivating belonging through built environments

We're celebrating World FM Day - this year highlighting how built environments shape belonging, and how systems like CAFM and connected built environment platforms can support this.
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Giving to gain: how female leadership is shaping the future of FM technology

Female leaders are driving the future of FM and technology by lifting others up and shaping a more inclusive, innovative industry.
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Maximising ROI from CAFM: Contractors

The first blog in our series on maximizing ROI from CAFM looks at contractor management, and how spend can be reduced with data-driven insights.
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Time saving tips for maintenance and asset management

2025 will bring a new set of challenges and opportunities - make more time for them with our time saving asset and maintenance management tips.
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Planting the Seeds of Smart Building Success

Explore how cultivating a smart building mirrors gardening—using the right tools, preparing, and nurturing growth.
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Contractor Management Made Easy

Simplify your contractor management, facilitating smooth communication and reporting to ensure everyone is working towards the same goal.
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Is Poor Air Quality Stifling Your Workplace?

We outline the importance of maintaining indoor air quality to achieve health, productivity, and cost-efficiency benefits.
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30 Years of FM and SWG

Celebrating our 30th birthday, we look back over the last three decades of our history and the evolution of the FM landscape.
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Health and Mental Wellbeing in the Workplace

FMs should prioritise employee wellbeing by cultivating positive workplace cultures & utilising FM software to improve physical environments.
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Do You Need to be a Data Whizz to Get The Most From Your CAFM?

Using integrated business intelligence software, like Power BI, can make it easier to access, analyse and collect FM data.
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Building a Sustainable Future: How FM Can Lead the Way

This blog creates a blueprint for improving sustainability in the FM sector, exploring how to identify and action sustainable business goals.
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2023: A Year in Workplace Tech

We reflect on 2023 - a year of workplace focused technology including AI, the Metaverse, retrofitting with BIM and Digital Twins.
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Challenges of Merging NHS Estates

Learn more about how Implementing a centralised FM system ahead of NHS Trusts merging will significantly minimise the work needed in future.
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Overcoming Challenges for FMs in the Public Sector

Learn more about how the challenges facilities managers face within the public sector can be eased with innovative technologies.
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5 Top Tips for Better Maintenance

Our latest blog reveals 5 top tips and essential strategies to enhance asset performance, minimise downtime, and boost productivity.
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The Importance of Proactive Maintenance

Discover the types of proactive maintenance, the benefits of each strategy and why safeguarding with a digital model can prove vital.
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Facilities Show 2023: Trends, Exhibitors, and Speakers

Take a look at the trends, speakers and exhibitors from this year's Facilities Show discussing the benefits of FM software.
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Integrating BIM and CAFM: Understanding the Benefits for FM

Discover the benefits of integrating BIM and CAFM software, including improved efficiency, reduced costs, and enhanced data management.
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5 Ways CAFM Can Improve Your PPMs

CAFM technology can improve PPMs within the FM sector, with benefits such as ensuring compliance, reducing call-out frequencies and increased efficiency.
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2022 in Review – What Were the Priorities in FM?

As the year draws to a close, we’re taking a look back at what aspects of facilities management most interested those in the sector over the last 12 months.
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Your Checklist for Better FM Service Delivery

Data collection and analysis assist outstanding FM services, to help identify site and building user requirements. How can CAFM form and checklist functionality help?
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“I Don’t Have Time for More Systems!” The Myth of Time-Intensive Technology

How the ‘little challenges’ solved by tech can be magnified throughout a business, repaying the initial time spent on implementation manifold.
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Making the Most of Your CAFM Software

How FM teams can get the most value for their CAFM systems, long after initial purchase and implementation.
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Rebuilding the Workplace Community

Working from home is not suitable for everyone, and the role of FM is pivotal in preparing offices for safe use and welcoming back the workforce.
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Changing Times for CAFM Implementation

The important role of change management and communication to get the best our of your CAFM system and achieve staff buy in.
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Give Up Giving Up – FM Practices to Let Go

Giving up smoking for a month is good for self-control and health, but why not also consider giving up bad FM practices to form positive habits instead.
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5 Ways to Achieve a Better Work-Life Balance

A growing 24/7 work culture leaves FMs open to being ‘always on' so leveraging technology like CAFM is essential to keep work in check and facilities running efficiently.
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2018 in Review – What Were the Key Priorities in FM?

Looking back on 2018, what topics were of most interest to FM professionals? Read our round up here.
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Checking Out the Workplace

The importance of first impressions cannot be underestimated and a reception is the window to a business. How can FM software help improve public spaces?
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FM Automation Made Simple

While there are many perceived barriers to the automation, it is within the reach of FMs and can provide significant organisational change.
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FM on Top Form

How a simple form or checklist sent to an FM operative's mobile device can greatly improve accuracy and productivity across the team.
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QFM User Group Summary

A look at the QFM User Group held in London last week, including guest client speakers from Luton & Dunstable NHS Trust and Anabas.
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Work Smarter, Not Harder, in 2018

Forget new year's resolutions - get things done faster, cheaper and more efficiently in your facility by switching to CAFM software.
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The Art of Customer Satisfaction

With the right technology in place, satisfaction can not only be gained but also measured and analysed in order to increase its occurrence in the future.
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Productivity – the Workplace Challenge

43% of employees do not agree that their workplace allows them to work productively. What can facilities management team do to improve productivity?
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Demystifying Performance Based Contracts

Put simply, performance based contracts provide incentives and disincentives to achieve desired outcomes or results from contractors, with the aim of reducing costs and improving service levels.
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Centralising Communications Through CAFM

Smooth organisational communications and a productive work environment are reliant on FM and are key for blue chip competitiveness. These can both be aided using CAFM software.
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How is FM Technology Keeping Your Workplace Well?

Workplace wellness is currently high on the FM agenda, with many organisations now increasing their investment in the health and wellbeing of employees.
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ThinkFM 2017 – Is Facilities Management Ready for IoT?

Today’s FM customer has become more demanding, less patient and more technology-savvy - and it is FM’s responsibility to lead workplace change.
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Why FM is Turning to Systems Integration

Integrating CAFM with other systems brings far-reaching and powerful benefits and now is firmly on the agenda for the FM industry.
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Keep Your 2017 Resolutions With CAFM

Often New Year Resolutions are broken within a month, but we look at how facilities managers can keep theirs through 2017 and beyond.
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The Future Workplace – Sensors and IoT

The Internet of Things will revolutionise the FM industry, and SWG looks at how sensors and location-based technology can be used to do this.
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Making Space for Productivity

How to find 'hidden' space for office moves, flexible work areas or hot desks in order to improve productivity and reduce unnecessary occupancy costs.
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Five Ways CAFM Can Deliver ROI

CAFM can generate ROI quickly through time, money and efficiency savings across the whole organisation - read on find out how.
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Operative Management – How to Optimise FM Resources

Manage work quality, deadlines and profitability using QFM's simple Resource Scheduler tool.
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The Rise of Mobile & Productivity in Facilities Management

A look at how the rise of mobile and remote access to CAFM systems has contributed to increased productivity in facilities management and organisations as a whole.
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How to Keep Your Cool in British Summer Time

How to maintain productivity in the workplace during the summer heat using planned preventative maintenance strategies and automated asset monitoring.
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Three Ways Booking Software Can Improve Your Business

With space at a premium in many organisations, shared areas are high-value assets. Ensure these resources are used to maximum effect and save space, time and reputation.
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Help Desk Self-Service – The Key to FM Productivity?

Reduce your help desk's paperwork and improve its efficiency with QFM self-service FM software.
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Making Sense of CAFM

What is CAFM? Read on to see what CAFM software does, and how it can benefit the facilities management in your business.
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