July 6, 2007—Facilities managers play an important role in business continuity plan development and management, according to FM 2007 Challenges & Opportunities for the Facilities Management Sector, a joint research investigation by the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) and accountants and business advisers BDO Stoy Hayward.
The BIFM wanted to understand what the facilities management (FM) community saw as the key challenges and opportunities over the next five years. The first phase of this work was the largest survey on facilities management in recent times, with over 1,500 FM professionals completing a detailed online questionnaire.
The survey found that FM is well represented within business continuity teams, with 92 percent of respondents whose organizations had business continuity plans saying that facilities professionals were included in the development and management of the plans.
The survey also found that 50 percent of respondents believe that organizations generally do not have formal crisis management teams. For more information, see the BIFM Web site.
