Workplace Matters

The second of two special episodes where Ian hands over the interview reins to Simon Iatrou of Magenta Associates, to explore the British Institute of Facilities Management’s intentions to change their name to embrace workplace, and seek chartered status.

If you haven't listened to part 1 yet, go do that first!

Simon is joined by key members of the BIFM leadership team: Chairman Steve Roots, CEO Linda Hausmanis, and Director of Insight Chris Moriarty. Ian also joins the discussion as 3edges Director and workplace insight specialist.

This is essential listening if you have an interest in the future of FM, the workplace discipline, the role of professional bodies… and especially if you are a voting BIFM member - enjoy!

Thanks to everyone who submitted questions for discussion, and has contributed constructively to the debate so far...

Some links to take you deeper:

BIFM manifesto for change information

Workplace Insight's first news story about the change

Neil Usher's @workessence post about our co-authored Workplace Leadership ManifestoThis episode of Workplace Matters is sponsored by the Workplace Leadership Programme, our partnership initiative with BIFM. It’s time to unlock your workplace advantage.The first course in the programme, Essentials of Workplace Leadership, is now taking bookings for this July and November, and there are limited places. We can also tailor the course for in-house delivery, focussing on your own business needs. Click here for more information, or contact us directly

The first of two special episodes where Ian hands over the interview reins to Simon Iatrou of Magenta Associates, to explore the British Institute of Facilities Management’s intentions to change their name to embrace workplace, and seek chartered status.

Simon is joined by key members of the BIFM leadership team: Chairman Steve Roots, CEO Linda Hausmanis, and Director of Insight Chris Moriarty. Ian also joins the discussion as 3edges Director and workplace insight specialist.

This is essential listening if you have an interest in the future of FM, the workplace discipline, the role of professional bodies… and especially if you are a voting BIFM member - enjoy!

Thanks to everyone who submitted questions for discussion, and has contributed constructively to the debate so far...

Some links to take you deeper:

BIFM manifesto for change information

Workplace Insight's first news story about the change

Neil Usher's @workessence post about our co-authored Workplace Leadership ManifestoThis episode of Workplace Matters is sponsored by the Workplace Leadership Programme, our partnership initiative with BIFM. It’s time to unlock your workplace advantage.The first course in the programme, Essentials of Workplace Leadership, is now taking bookings for this July and November, and there are limited places. We can also tailor the course for in-house delivery, focussing on your own business needs. Click here for more information, or contact us directly

Per Feldthaus, Global Head of Workplace Management and Design at Signal Architects, joins Ian for the third and final part of the Workplace Matters Danish workplace mini-feature. Signal is a practice whose interest isn’t in buildings per se, and whose business model is not built upon delivering new space… necessarily.

With core competencies of strategic thinking, design, and change management, Signal’s interest is in design thinking - as a full process of discovery, design and delivery - and Per explains Signal’s ‘mental rebuilding’ concept, their trademarked approach that drives their in some ways counter-intuitive business model.

Just over a year ago Signal was acquired by Facilities Services giant ISS as part of their own workplace strategy. Per explains how design thinking can unlock workplace value chain opportunities that stretch far beyond FM in its current form. There's loads in this conversation - enjoy!

Some links to take you deeper:

This episode of Workplace Matters is sponsored by the Workplace Leadership Programme, our partnership initiative with the British Institute of Facilities Management. It’s time to unlock your workplace advantage.

The first course in the programme, Essentials of Workplace Leadership, is now taking bookings for this July and November. We can also tailor the course for in-house delivery, focussing on your own business needs. Click here for more info, or contact us directly

Jeff Saunders, Director at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, joins Ian for part 2 of the Workplace Matters Danish workplace mini-feature. CIFS, who have been around since the 60s, recently completed a seven-year six book collaboration with facilities services giant ISS with the publication of their ‘Future of Work, Workforce and Workplace’ capstone white book. Enjoy!

They discuss a particular future scenarios matrix which is developed in the first book, and then revisited in the sixth capstone book. It shows four possible futures, considering primarily the extent of automation versus the prioritisation of sustainability, which are called ‘fragmented world’, ‘capitalism reinvented’, ‘sustainable business’ and ‘the great transformation’.

As Jeff explains, these are possible scenarios which were created at the beginning of the collaboration to engage with future issues. They’re revisited in the most recent capstone book to reflect longitudinally about changes and timescales. Well worth a look...

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Peter Ankerstjerne, former long-standing Chief Marketing Officer of global facility services provider ISS, joins Ian for part 1 of our Workplace Matters Danish workplace mini-feature. The discussion goes under the bonnet of the global facility services megacorp that employs almost 500,000 people worldwide to explore ideas about workplace, FM, innovation strategies, digital technology, and - yes, they go there - the future of work. Enjoy!

This episode was recorded at the ISS global headquarters. It’s more than a shop front and a HQ: it’s a living lab for their own ideas about future workplace, which - in a tech-enabled art of the possible way - they bring to life fantastically in a video called 'how Internet of Things technology brings the workplace into the future'. Well worth a watch...

Topics discussed include:

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Workplace author, blogger and executive consultant Neil Usher joins Ian again on the day of his book launch, and also the day the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) announce their proposal to become the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM). Will 2018 be remembered as the year workplace tips? Neil’s observations and views are as perceptive as ever. This is elemental workplace listening, folks - enjoy!

Some links to take you deeper:

More about BIFM’s proposed name change:

A huge thanks to Herman Miller in London for hosting us

We're back with part 2 of the inaugural Workplace Matters Metacast, where Ian and James from 3edges are joined by i-FM.net editor Simon Iatrou and independent workplace specialist Will Easton, to explore workplace issues through non-workplace podcasts episodes. Very meta.

If you’ve not listened to episode 15 part 1 yet then go do that first, or it might feel like you've walked in on a really interesting conversation halfway through. Because that’s exactly what you've done...

Podcast episode selections:

Big overall themes include:

And finally some key learning points from our round table reflections at the end of the session:

Once again, don't forget to subscribe to our sparkling new Workplace Matters newsletter at 3edges.co.uk, and check out our Workplace Leadership Manifesto comrades, out daily during January on Twitter and LinkedIn. Search #WpLeadershipManifesto. Power to the people.

And a huge thanks to the fantastic Kelham Island Brewery in Sheffield for hosting us.

We’ve got something different for you this time - the first ever Workplace Matters Metacast. It’s a round table discussion between four podcast geeks: 3edges co-founders James Pinder and Ian Ellison, editor at i-FM.net Simon Iatrou, and freelance workplace provocateur Will Easton. It’s all about workplace. Except we’re not allowed to say anything about workplace unless we use an unrelated podcast episode to make the point. Like a game show without any prize... or something like that. Very meta. Hence the name.

It’s a big discussion, so we’ve cut it in two. The intro and first two podcast examples are here. The final two examples and our wrap up learnings discussion will in episode 16, part 2, out tomorrow. Think of this as a gateway to more. There is so much great content out there to expand your horizons. Try things, go deeper, and let us know what you think @wpmpodcast on Twitter.

Podcast episode selections:

Don't forget to subscribe to our sparkling new Workplace Matters newsletter at 3edges.co.uk, and check out our Workplace Leadership Manifesto comrades, out daily during January on Twitter and LinkedIn. Search #WpLeadershipManifesto. Power to the people.

A huge thanks to the fantastic Kelham Island Brewery in Sheffield for hosting us.