The book
Seventeen research-based chapters on how a clear finding loses its force between the sensor and the decision, why organizations defend that loss, and what a redesign actually involves.
Facility management · Corporate real estate · Governance
Buildings learned to speak.
Buildings learned to speak.
Organizations did not learn to answer.
The distance between what a building already shows and what its organization is able to do about it.
My name is Maarten de Bruin. If you are rethinking how technology shapes the future of your facility operations, real estate portfolio or built environment strategy, I would like to be part of that conversation.
Visibility comes first. The ability to act comes much later, if at all.
The Acceleration gap
Visibility arrived but the ability to act never did
Buildings now produce continuous evidence about how they are actually used. The forums that decide what to do with that evidence were designed for a quarterly report. The distance between the two is the acceleration gap, and it is a governance problem rather than a data problem.
The Gap Index
The regulation, benchmark data and research that set the terms of this argument, each item carrying its source and a reading of what it means for a portfolio and its data.
Speaking
Keynotes, executive sessions and workshops about the Acceleration gap, the increasing speed of innovation and emerging new technologies
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Predictive maintenance is not the finish line
Predictive maintenance is a milestone, not the destination. Most FM organizations are not ready for the stage that comes after it.
The role of leadership in creating value from technology
Faster systems rarely fail on the technology. They fail when ownership of outcomes stays implicit instead of being deliberately designed.
Leadership beyond the hero
Leadership is no longer measured by decisiveness or visibility, but by how well the organization functions without constant intervention.