INLEAD conducted an Industry Expert Session
for CAFM July 2012 & Jan 2013 and IHM Oct’12 Batch. The session was conducted
by Brig. Ashok Jaitly- General Manager, Knight Frank (India) Training FMS and
PMC. He had an interactive session with the students on “Recent trends in Facility Management Industry". Brig. Jaitly
has over three decades of experience in the Indian Army in the operations and
the facilities management and has been heading the training and development
division of Knight Frank India since last 14 years.
The lecture started with an
introduction on the growth of Facility Management. He explained how FM is
growing & talked about the ratio of growth in FM sector in India &
Europe. He explained “The definition of Facility Management, key triggers,
challenges & opportunities in the field of Facility Management. The
students were informed about on different streams in FM for young Professionals
which includes Business Development, Engineering/ O&M/ Technical, Soft
Services, Office Support Services and Finance & Asset Management. He also
discussed with students the future prospects in the domain of technical FM and
Soft Services.
According to Muneshwar Pal and Vaibhav
Vashishta of CAFM January’13 and IHM Oct’12 Batch “We got a better & clear
understanding of key responsibility areas of Facility Manager and how to tackle
any difficult situation."
To conclude the session Brig. Jaitly
mentions some of the key traits of an Ideal facility manager that includes Chanakya’s
wisdom, a lawyer’s shrewdness, A gambler’s gamble and the most important
availability for 48 hours a day.
Facility Management is catching up the scene when it comes to management aspect in any corporate world. The increased accumulation of huge data in the database is the one thing that needs proper management in order to reap better ROI.
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