Facility Management
Sardor Uzakov The work of the International Conferences
The conference was designed to bring together two specialists in the field of facility management and students of ESERP University in a forum for discussion on contemporary facility management issues. The conference was structured into two parts. The first part was held by Professor Dr. Jan Van Dalen. Being a professor from well know and globally recognized university he has a solid theoretical knowledge of the subject supported by the experience gained from his real life practice. The main topics included the general term of facility management, Strategic Facility management challenges and the modern issues of Facility management. The second part was presented by Dr. Roel Cremer. It’s by far difficult to overestimate his contribution to our understanding of this topic. The fact that he has a background in psychology helped him to make things interesting and to turn difficult parts into intuitively understandable. In addition he made the emphasis on the topics of leadership, the necessity of changes of the current system of economic patterns; he showed us that leaders should shift from ego self-assessment to eco. His presentation was followed by quotes of oriental philosophers and he gave us the list of relevant reading and videos to widen our horizons in general and enhance our knowledge of the topic in particular. Among discussed topics one seemed particularly interesting for me. The hypothesis, that we are living in time where the classical modern system of values and views are not actual anymore, professors gave us a direction for the realization of limitations of current economic systems and recommended some reading. For instance, Theory U by Otto Scharmer was mentioned as an interesting and informative source of relevant information. According to the book the nature of current crisis is the shift of paradigms. The current institutional social structure is not able to reflect the realities of today.
The conference was designed to bring together two specialists in the field of facility management and students of ESERP University in a forum for discussion on contemporary facility management issues. The conference was structured into two parts. The first part was held by Professor Dr. Jan Van Dalen. Being a professor from well know and globally recognized university he has a solid theoretical knowledge of the subject supported by the experience gained from his real life practice. The main topics included the general term of facility management, Strategic Facility management challenges and the modern issues of Facility management. The second part was presented by Dr. Roel Cremer. It’s by far difficult to overestimate his contribution to our understanding of this topic. The fact that he has a background in psychology helped him to make things interesting and to turn difficult parts into intuitively understandable. In addition he made the emphasis on the topics of leadership, the necessity of changes of the current system of economic patterns; he showed us that leaders should shift from ego self-assessment to eco. His presentation was followed by quotes of oriental philosophers and he gave us the list of relevant reading and videos to widen our horizons in general and enhance our knowledge of the topic in particular. Among discussed topics one seemed particularly interesting for me. The hypothesis, that we are living in time where the classical modern system of values and views are not actual anymore, professors gave us a direction for the realization of limitations of current economic systems and recommended some reading. For instance, Theory U by Otto Scharmer was mentioned as an interesting and informative source of relevant information. According to the book the nature of current crisis is the shift of paradigms. The current institutional social structure is not able to reflect the realities of today.
Bibliography: Otto Scharmer: Theory U Simon Sinek: golden circle The cherry orchard, Anton Chekhov KUHN, THOMAS SAMUEL (b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 18 July 1922; d. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 17 June 1996) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Tomas Kuhn Cours de la philosophie positive, Auguste Komte Black swan theory ,Nassim Nicholas Taleb 4 5 Aarhus, June 1, 2008 Steen Hildebrandt Foreword by Steen Hildebrandt, Ph.D, Otto Scharmer, Theory U.