What are your thoughts about the following ideas in facility management...

[juliaFMStudent]

Hello community!
I'm a Masters student evaluating technologies that will innovate the Facility Management industry. Your response will be invaluable. We are seeking best practices that will make people like YOU happy and productive at work!
Therefore, I will ask you about your thoughts about the predictive software ideas (a and b are interlinked):
Idea a) I would like to create a predictive software for the canteen. All information about nutrition, eating behavior etc. is generated and collected over time (via an employee or access card). Those information is the used to optimize resources (human and ingredient resources) in the canteen.
Idea b) I would also like to create such a profile for the meeting room management. The system stores data of all meetings a person has been at and all the relevant information (other participants, topic, duration, used equipment). If a person wants to arrange a meeting, the software already knows his/her preferences and can fasten he process.

Idea c) I would like to create an automated cancelling system for unused meeting rooms. If e.g. a sensor in a booked room shows no movement, the room booking will be cancelled and the room is free for booking again.
What are your thoughts/ideas/comments on that idea?


Thank you for your ideas and comments

 

[BurnItDwn]

Canteens huh, will you fill with water, or maybe with rum?

 

[BoomerD]

Sorry. We tend to not be willing to do the homework assignments for people...especially people who join just to get our help.

 

[z1ggy]

You're barking up the wrong tree sista.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Sorry. We tend to not be willing to do the homework assignments for people...especially people who join just to get our help.

You'll have to forgive Boomer, he's an angry old geezer.

So, Julia....pics?

 

[SlitheryDee]

I like idea B. The rest make me very angry.

 

[rudeguy]

Hello community!
I'm a Masters student evaluating technologies that will innovate the Facility Management industry. Your response will be invaluable. We are seeking best practices that will make people like YOU happy and productive at work!
Therefore, I will ask you about your thoughts about the predictive software ideas (a and b are interlinked):
Idea a) I would like to create a predictive software for the canteen. All information about nutrition, eating behavior etc. is generated and collected over time (via an employee or access card). Those information is the used to optimize resources (human and ingredient resources) in the canteen.
Idea b) I would also like to create such a profile for the meeting room management. The system stores data of all meetings a person has been at and all the relevant information (other participants, topic, duration, used equipment). If a person wants to arrange a meeting, the software already knows his/her preferences and can fasten he process.

Idea c) I would like to create an automated cancelling system for unused meeting rooms. If e.g. a sensor in a booked room shows no movement, the room booking will be cancelled and the room is free for booking again.
What are your thoughts/ideas/comments on that idea?


Thank you for your ideas and comments

That's nice.

Please tell us in detail how you plan to design and implement this system.

 

[BoomerD]

You'll have to forgive Boomer, he's an angry old geezer.

So, Julia....pics?

I'd curb stomp you for that snarky comment...but I can't lift my walker that high.

So...I'll just have to settle for this:

 

[blackdogdeek]

Master's student?

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[Belegost]

Idea A - what exactly are you tracking that wouldn't already be tracked by the supply orders?

Idea B - Been done. Outlook+Exchange at least do a fairly decent form of this, when scheduling a meeting it will put up a list of available rooms large enough to hold the number of people invited and in the building of the organizer, and allows for forming a favorite group that is at the top of the list.

Idea C - Sounds like good idea, but of limited value given the implementation complexity. How often is it that someone wants to schedule a meeting that needs a room 15 minutes or more after the not occurring meeting was supposed to start, but ends before the next meeting in the room?

The necessary situation for this to be valuable is that someone needs to schedule a meeting that will occur immediately (or at least within the next 10-15mins) and is shorter than the meeting that was previously scheduled. Sudden meetings that need to be scheduled to a conference room are unusual (if I need to have an impromptu meeting of less than 3-4 people we just use someone's office, and gathering more than a few people in 10 mins is generally improbable) and then requiring them to be shorter than average by at least 15 mins makes the number of use cases even smaller.

If you are going to pursue one of these, idea B is probably the only one worth the effort, if it can be more contextually intelligent that existing systems (ie a person starts a meeting with a subject like "Land deal in AK" and the system grabs a list of names that were previously involved in emails on land deals and alaska.)

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Hello community!
I'm a Masters student evaluating technologies that will innovate the Facility Management industry. Your response will be invaluable. We are seeking best practices that will make people like YOU happy and productive at work!
Therefore, I will ask you about your thoughts about the predictive software ideas (a and b are interlinked):
Idea a) I would like to create a predictive software for the canteen. All information about nutrition, eating behavior etc. is generated and collected over time (via an employee or access card). Those information is the used to optimize resources (human and ingredient resources) in the canteen.
Idea b) I would also like to create such a profile for the meeting room management. The system stores data of all meetings a person has been at and all the relevant information (other participants, topic, duration, used equipment). If a person wants to arrange a meeting, the software already knows his/her preferences and can fasten he process.

Idea c) I would like to create an automated cancelling system for unused meeting rooms. If e.g. a sensor in a booked room shows no movement, the room booking will be cancelled and the room is free for booking again.
What are your thoughts/ideas/comments on that idea?


Thank you for your ideas and comments

Idea B is already pretty well doable within Exchange already. If you know what you're doing.

Idea C is dangerous (Motion sensors are finicky and sometimes don't detect people who are sitting very still) and superfluous (cancelling a 2-3PM meeting at 2:15 because the room is empty doesn't really help anybody, since the next meeting from 3-4 is booked anyway.)

Idea A is something that should already be going on - the people running the canteen (canteen? You're not from North America, are you...) are going to best minimize waste by selling what people want to eat. Daily inventory, tracking waste and spoilage, and ordering in advance are all part of basic food service. If you can engineer an easy to use system that makes it easier to do that and makes intelligent recommendations, that would be pretty cool.

Good luck.

 

[KLin]

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[MagnusTheBrewer]

Hello community!
I'm a Masters student evaluating technologies that will innovate the Facility Management industry. Your response will be invaluable. We are seeking best practices that will make people like YOU happy and productive at work!
Therefore, I will ask you about your thoughts about the predictive software ideas (a and b are interlinked):
Idea a) I would like to create a predictive software for the canteen. All information about nutrition, eating behavior etc. is generated and collected over time (via an employee or access card). Those information is the used to optimize resources (human and ingredient resources) in the canteen. Collecting information is always a good idea as long as it is done unobtrusively. It also makes a huge difference if your "canteen" is self op or contracted. The bottom line is how the information will be used. You need to clarify that.
Idea b) I would also like to create such a profile for the meeting room management. The system stores data of all meetings a person has been at and all the relevant information (other participants, topic, duration, used equipment). If a person wants to arrange a meeting, the software already knows his/her preferences and can hasten he process. The problem is that the person arranging the meeting is rarely the principal of the meeting. You can always use that person's profile but, that person is again, usually not the originator. Ex: Engineer>Manager>Secretary

Idea c) I would like to create an automated cancelling system for unused meeting rooms. If e.g. a sensor in a booked room shows no movement, the room booking will be cancelled and the room is free for booking again.
What are your thoughts/ideas/comments on that idea? Lack of flexibility. In any corporate environment, things rarely go according to schedule (meetings start late, go late etc.) The answer is to facilitate more human interaction not, less using software.


Thank you for your ideas and comments

I jotted down a few thoughts in red above. For more feedback, you need to provide more information. The type of industry for example really does matter as does the scope of the operation.
P.S. After looking at your other attempts online to generate feedback, you really need to put more effort in to your homework assignments. What you've demonstrated so far is not Masters level.

 

[cbrunny]

B and C are bad ideas.

I often book a meeting room 15 or 20 mins in advance of a meeting so that others have time if they run long and can get out. If the room sat empty though for that time and I lost my booking, I'd be hella pissed. Also, not really necessary in my workplace environment but that's perhaps unique. Also, setting up motion sensor equipment specifically for saving the odd half hour here and there that links to everyone's computers/intranet, the ROI is literally non existent. $$$$$$$

My needs for a meeting room does not require a predictive approach. Often meeting rooms are equipped with everything one would need, so it is doubtful that something would be needed so often that wasn't in the room that would require a predictive model to save time. This would inconvenience me more often than not for two reasons. First, I can book a room in under 30 seconds as it is right now. This will complicate the already very simple process. Second, I'd need to verify the predictive model predicted properly anyway, else I look like a moron when the meeting starts and something I need isn't there.

 

[Xafor]

I would link idea A with a wellness program, that way you collect information in order to minimize waste and to adapt menus to your users' taste and you also get employees implicated with their health and happier, therefore, more productive, and you create company culture.
Good luck, Julia! I've tweeted this link so more people can answer and you get a wider sample

 

[PingviN]

I would link idea A with a wellness program, that way you collect information in order to minimize waste and to adapt menus to your users' taste and you also get employees implicated with their health and happier, therefore, more productive, and you create company culture.
Good luck, Julia! I've tweeted this link so more people can answer and you get a wider sample

Are you the creepy guy in class trying to get into her pants?

 

[yuppiejr]

Option C has been addressed by a few vendors and usually involves s light sensor in the room to validate occupancy, or requires room users to press a button/touchscreen panel in the room within 5-10 minutes of a meeting start to keep a reservation. Modern commercial interior design is moving away from lots of stuffy meeting rooms to more non-reservable collaboration spaces supplemented with online collaboration tools like Lync, Webex, blue jeans, etc...

 

[sdifox]

your idea of facility management is very different from mine.

 

[boomerang]

My input on facilities is that I don't much care for urinals that splash back.

 

[twinrider1]

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[Markbnj]

Just wanted to point out that idea (c) would cancel every meeting I was ever invited to. Proceed with implementation.

 

[styrafoam]

Idea D) a program that anonymously provides workers with comfort sheep. My cubicle is is not known to the person dispatching the sheep. I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO KNOW THAT I'M TAKING SHEEP TIME, ITS MY BUSINESS.