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Strategic Facilities Management Partnership Membership

The Strategic Facilities Management Partnership would like to invite your company to join our strategic benchmarking consortium.  SFMP is a series of high quality, intimate forums (10 to 15 member companies) focusing on workplace strategy, facilities management and real estate benchmarking. We boast executive membership from multiple high quality, high performance member corporations like Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Nortel, Novell, Accenture, Cadence, NCR, Cisco Systems, and Deloitte. 

What to Expect at an SFMP Forum:

SFMP is knowledge transfer. 

We have developed a unique and highly successful strategic benchmarking and knowledge exchange roundtable concept that is unparalleled.  Our thought provoking SFMP forums usually involve twelve to sixteen similar companies, often direct competitors, and are focused on helping you analyze and improve your corporation's facilities and real estate performance.  Our organization meets twice a year (March and September) at a member’s facility.  At the March meeting, agenda attached, we exchange top level metrics which are rolled up into presentation format by our facilitator: StayStrategic, LLC.  In addition, we discuss current hot topics for FM & RE executives including: flexible workplace, workplace strategies and enterprise strategies. 

Our member companies have been the beneficiaries of our strategic benchmarking and informal roundtable concept to collectively develop and adopt industry moving, high impact, and cost saving strategies.  SFMP members are leaders in the delivery of alternative workplace strategies like telecommuting, office hotelling and shared office space programs that have shaved hundreds of millions of dollars off their bottom lines and added measurable value to both employees and shareholders. SFMP members have collectively achieved a net reduction in their facilities costs as a percent of revenue of 19% over the past ten years while at the same time absorbing a whopping 34% increase in inflation driven per square foot facilities and real estate costs over the same time period.

We know:

That after employee costs, buildings and real estate costs are typically a corporation's single largest operating expense.  We also know that it is not at all unusual for facilities and real estate costs to be more than 100% out of parity with similar competitors’ costs.

Ask These Questions:

·          Is your real estate portfolio meeting your cost objectives and your stakeholder’s expectations?

·          Do you know your overall facilities and real estate costs as a percent of your company's revenue and how it compares to your competition?

·          Does your facilities and real estate organization have a strategic plan and a methodology in place to attain and maintain best in class status?

·          Do you know how to measure your Facility Utilization Factor* (U_f) and its current value?

·          Are you fully aware of all the latest developments and advancements in facilities management and real estate strategies in your industry?

If you answered no to any of these questions The Strategic Facilities Management Partnership can help you get the information you need to make your program more strategic and place you among the leading professionals in corporate facilities management and real estate.

*(U_f) Facility Utilization Factor is a measure of how efficiently office facilities are occupied

We know:

That on-going strategic benchmarking will help you continuously focus on the key factors that truly measure the performance of your corporation's real estate portfolio. Only by using the proper Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) can you develop and maintain high performance operating strategies.  SFMP forums are unique in that we don't concentrate on site level data, individual process or service level metrics and benchmarking.  Instead, we focus on those metrics and KPI's that drive organizational performance and impact the overall enterprise.  Members are corporate leaders with access to the executive suite because they know and understand what impacts the overall business and how to make the real estate portfolio add value across the enterprise.

Demonstrated Success

SFMP was founded in 1996.  SFMP is a professional association of senior facilities management and real estate executives from leading technology and technology consulting service companies.  SFMP members share enterprise level key performance indicators annually and meet twice a year to discuss best practices and collaborate on accelerating the application of new ideas and technology to common issues.  SFMP members have found exceptional value in the content provided by SFMP as evidenced by some members’ comments below:"

HP has been a member of the Strategic Facilities Management Partnership for many years. In that time we have developed crucial relationships with member companies and acquired insight into their workings in a way that you simply can't get through membership of open industry organizations. The level of trust, the quality of the information shared, and the ability to pick up the phone and call a member of the Partnership to share thoughts on an issue, make SFMP unique."  Chris Hood, Program Manager, the HP Workplace, Hewlett Packard

 

"Cadence benefits tremendously from it’s participation in the Strategic Facilities Management Partnership. Most significantly is the annual benchmarking exercise which provides consistent, relevant data that compares performance between similar companies. Cadence does not make this detailed, confidential data available through any other source."  Tim Collins, Director, Planning, Workplace Resources, Cadence Design Systems

 

"SFMP offers creative and provocative interchange between progressive companies, each a leader in workplace strategy.  The ability to share benchmarking information, as well as tactical and strategic initiatives is hugely valuable.   Our biannual meetings are an opportunity to stimulate our thinking and validate or refocus our strategies to propel us forward."  Daniel B. Johnson, Global Director, CRE Workplace, Accenture

 

"SFMP is an opportunity to connect with colleagues in like roles in Fortune 500 companies and share experiences, benchmark data, and network.  This time together is invaluable to me/our firm as we're able to obtain and share industry knowledge and best practices while building relationships where we can support and assist each other."  Stephen Silverstein, Deloitte.

 

How to Join an SFMP Forum:

Annual membership in SFMP is $2000.  Your membership includes the confidential exchange of metrics, two, two day annual meetings hosted at a member facility, and access to all current and past SFMP member presentations posted on the this website.

To Join an SFMP Forum, or get more information, please contact us or go to www.StayStrategic.com

John Vlha at email:  john.vlha@staystrategic.com or phone: (949)589-6040

John Barnes at email: john.barnes@staystrategic.com or phone: (303)567-4658, or

Additional Membership Information

§         Who should attend SFMP?  Corporate FM and RE executives whose primary responsibility lies with development and maintenance of enterprise wide facilities management and real estate strategy.  Typical member titles include: VP Facilities, VP Workplace Services, VP Real Estate, Director Strategic Planning, Director Facilities Operations, Director Workplace Services.

§         Members enter into a confidentiality agreement that is specific to SFMP members.  The agreement, in essence, is to protect the confidentiality of the information and data exchanged during the forums.  This agreement is critical to the success of the organization and will not be waived.  Note:  StayStrategic, LLC is also bound by the agreement and can not share identifiable confidential member data or information without prior approval from members.

§         Members are required to submit enterprise wide FM and RE operational data that will be developed by Stay Strategic, LLC into metrics, KPI's and benchmarks.  For a SFMP member to participate, this information must be provided and shared.

§         Members attend two, two day, executive forums which occur about six months apart. In the first meeting, members review their data, transformed into KPI's, metrics and benchmarks and develop dialogue about best practices and current issues. Members during the second session engage in further dialogue about industry direction, new concepts and other member selected topics.