IWMS: Chaos or Creation?
Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) was designed as an enterprise-class software platform that helps to manage and plan all of their real estate assets and facilities infrastructure. Corporate Real Estate (CRE) includes goals that an Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) address includes: alignment of organizational strategy with business processes; availability of standardized information to stakeholders; consolidation of the technology systems landscape; elimination of redundant workstreams and creation of operational efficiencies; improved governance and risk mitigation; creation of an enterprise-wide analytical view; cost reduction.
With all of this the question is asked: are you planning on implementing the IWMS into your organization by crossing a line in the sand? The “line in the sand” is the point past your decisions and the resulting consequences that are decided and often irreversible. There are 10 points that can be put towards the “lines” within the sand and they are:
1. Don’t Assume that Your Stakeholders Want to Change 2. Don’t Just Write a Prescription…Understand the Pain 3. Assemble the Right Team Around a Game Plan 4. Don’t Be Fooled by an Amazing Demo…or a Bad One 5. Configuration, not Customization 6. Prepare the Project Budget Around Your Business Case 7. Don’t Treat Technology as the Hard Part 8. Evolution, not Revolution 9. Show Them the Love 10. Create a Data Governance Plan