FM leaders need to promote innovation through programs that drive productivity and efficiency. Successful companies harness creativity from employees through a bottom-up approach. Innovation requires communities, competitions, awards, and champions to inspire thinking differently and adapting to change. The real challenge is escaping old ideas, not just developing new ones.

1. Drivers of
Innovation in FM
Ricky Bartlett LCIBSE
Engtech

2. “FM leaders need to
position themselves
more directly around
the promotion of
activities and
programs that drive
Productivity [and]
efficiency.”
Maureen Ehrenberg
Global Director of FM for
CBRETop Down

3. “Companies that have
successfully made innovation part
of their regular continuing strategy
did so by harnessing the creative
energies and the insights of their
employees”
Bottom Up
JC Spender
Professor Specialising in Business Strategy

4. “Ensures Innovation is a core activity….Inspires people to think
differently, to be creative…..to adapt to change through sharing
examples of [their] own work”
To be an exceptional innovator,

5. What’s needed? Innovation….
i. Communities
ii. Competitions
iii. Awards
iv. Champions
Inspire

6. John Maynard Keynes
Father of Modern Economics
“The difficulty lies not so
much in developing new
ideas…....as in escaping
from old ones.”