09.27.06

Presenting FM to a Government Agency

Posted in General, Facility Management at 2:58 pm by Admin

Earlier this month, we received a call from an IT Department for one of the biggest government agency in town. They’ve asked us to do a presentation for them about ARCHIBUS/FM. This was a response from the local newspaper article that was published back in 22nd July 2006. The meeting was attended by about 23 personnel at one of their meeting hall.

After the presentation was over, the Q&A session raised a few interesting points that is clouding the public sector regarding data that they have. First of all, most of their data is in hard copy format and they are concerned about the migration from hard copy to soft copy. Secondly, the implementation of a new system would mean that they are required to adapt to change which is a hard thing to do when you’ve been doing the same job for years. Educating the end user is a great challenge and should be carefully executed with a plan.

After listening to ARCHIBUS/FM presentation over and over again for several times, I got a few ideas. If you’ve been learning about ARCHIBUS/FM like I did, you’ll probably know that ARCHIBUS/FM is a comprehensive software with so many modules and most of the time, you will overlook its capability. Trying to search for a simpler explanation will eventually results into more confusions. What I’m planning to do is I’ll break up the modules and try to configure how the software works and post it here in this blog. Hope that would help myself and our readers out there who are seeking more information about ARCHIBUS/FM.

If you happen to be an expert in ARCHIBUS/FM, do give us comments or feedback down below. We would love to hear something from our readers.

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09.26.06

Asset Management Software Article

Posted in Asset Management at 3:19 pm by Admin

I just wrote a short article titled ‘Asset Management Software - Speed Up Your Work Into Seconds‘. You can check it out using the link given. Asset Management Software is like any other software, is a very useful tool for managing assets. Some of these software displays data and information in a ’spreadsheet’ kind of way. In todays Graphic User Interface (GUI) kind of software which relies on intensive graphics, it is better if we could see report in a way that pleases us and most importantly, pleases our superior. ARCHIBUS/FM is one of them and it’s the only product that we recommend for our clients. For more information, you can log on to ARCHIBUS/FM Website to get to know more it.

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09.21.06

Cranking Out An ARCHIBUS/FM Proposal in 2 hours

Posted in Proposals at 9:13 pm by Admin

This morning, we had a presentation meeting with one of the bank here in Kuala Lumpur. The person that we met was the second in command of the property division. Half way through the presentation, the big boss for the division came in. When he saw ARCHIBUS, he immediately told us that he knows about the product and he told us to give him a proposal right away. At first he taught we were from the company that approached him last year about ARCHIBUS/FM but never followed up. Then we realized it was one of our competitors that presented to them, we would like to thank them who ever they are.

When we came back to the office, I dig out all the proposals that I’ve worked on before, mix and match the requirement, made a little bit of adjustment and editing, customized, add a little bit of this and that, proofread it, printed it out and bind all the documents into a nice package. All this were done in just 2 hours. I wouldn’t have done it if not for all the materials I’ve accumulated over the years. This was a personal record for me.

We are going to send the proposal to the client tomorrow. If the client is pleased with our proposal, I’ll probably share with you some tips on “How to produce a good ARCHIBUS/FM proposal”. Wish us luck!

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09.19.06

Project Management Course Anyone?

Posted in Project Management at 2:56 pm by Admin

According to Wikipedia, Project Management is the discipline of organizing and managing resources in such a way that these resources deliver all the work required to complete a project within defined scope, time, and cost constraints. A project is a temporary and one-time endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service.

Recently, I received a phone call by a company who organizes Project Management courses. The unique thing about what they are offering is a Simulation training. I like their brochure saying that “Pilots are out through flight simulation programmes before they fly. In ‘the name of their programme’, participants are put through a simulation of a 24 week project with typical problems encountered in real life projects”. Now this is something interesting and different, I wonder what are typical problems in real life projects.

Beside the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, they were also promoting Project Management Office (PMO). PMO is a program for organizations that have to manage or implement multiple projects at the same time. With PMO, it is said to ensure better monitoring and optimal allocation of resources.

So, how does Facility Management has got to do with Project Management? A lot I guess. Either way, management is a broad and delicate topic to cover. Let’s leave that to the so-called expert.

P/S: Donald Trump’s Apprentice show is a good program to observe how project management is being done the real life way.

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