Last October, we reported on ground-breaking innovations in the public sector, with proof-of-concepts linking – and streamlining - physical access and visitor management processes with wider corporate data systems. We highlighted one project that has particular promise: a major healthcare trust undertaking a proof-of-concept (POC) trial to test the potential of full physical and digital [...]
Adam Foster, Technical Director, Data Installation & Supplies (DIS) As organisations look to become more agile they are turning to innovative software that lets them manage everything from a single pane of glass, without the cost or complexity of a PSIM In doing so, they are taking advantage of an exciting new generation of enterprise-class, [...]
Just a year ago, how many of HSBC’s top managers could have imagined they were about to lose their prestigious offices on the 42nd floor of the landmark Canary Wharf HQ? Or that they would soon find themselves hot-desking in an open-plan area while their former private domains were converted into client meeting rooms and [...]
As organisations look ahead to re-opening their premises, we are seeing different approaches being suggested by major employers in different sectors. Some are favouring an increase in homeworking, and others insisting that a large-scale return to the office is now essential. For example, investment bank Goldman Sachs believes that fostering a “collaborative and innovative” corporate [...]
A major shift is taking place in the way companies and organisations operate: the way they use their buildings and manage their people. This transformation is being driven by a combination of external pressures, including the rapid impact of the 2020 pandemic, and longer term trends that were already established, such as the need to [...]
"People think lockdown is finished,” the WHO’s European region director, Hans Kluge, said in an interview with The Telegraph this week. But it hasn’t, he cautioned – in truth “nothing has changed”. And for anyone tempted to relax as some of the appearances of normal life return, he had a sobering warning. We should now [...]
