Glin W. Jay, CFM, AGUIRREcorporation, Dallas, Texas

 FM – Crossing Boundaries in the New Millennium

 As facility management executives with ultimate responsibilities of corporate assets and their impact to the bottom line, how do we keep senior management apprized of the boundaries FM will have to cross in the new Millennium through:

q       The workplace futures of bricks and mortar

q       The blurring of workplace and cyberspace into “Bricks and Clicks”

q       The true FM function in the changing work environment

q       How does the “new knowledge management processes” impact the asset management game

q       Does “employer of choice” and the promises of management to retain the recent high performing new hires, create challenges to the workplace environment

q       Coping with pressures to create and manage cost effective, lean and agile infrastructure

q       The reluctant change to the new B2B, business to business e-commerce

q       How do we as FM’er obtain a recognition different than “Halls-Walls-Mops-Cops” managers

q       Getting FM planning-design-build-operate-finance processes integrated into the corporate strategic plan

q       Workplace assets for products with 3-6 month life cycles, 5-year leases or “Is that your final answer”