Research Topics
Digitalisation and digital transformation are the key words of today. Digitalisation impacts real estate and facility management in two main areas: Due to changes of the core business (new ways of working) the demand for infrastructure and services changes. Digitalisation also has a big impact on the facility service (FS) provision: the application of new technologies, for example, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) allow control over the complexity of FM processes and services in a more effective way.
Our research includes:
To cover these topics in our research agenda, we concentrate on Workplace management and digital transformation of real estate and facility management.
- Value Added by FM
- Status Quo and International Trends within FM – what the demand sides asks for what the supply side delivers
- Digital transformation
- Service Provision of the Future - IoT and its new possibilities
- Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Controll System (ICS)
- Change Management, Processes and ICT Support within FM
- Integrated Facility Services – Optimisation of the Service Provision
- New Ways of Working and Workplace Management – not only to enable but to empower the human being
- CSR and Sustainability
- Municipal FM – Linking the strategy of a municipality with the zoning but also the organization structure to enable smart cities
- Outsourcing