As an accommodation professional, you are confronted on a daily basis at a tactical and operational level with the impact of the strategic course of your organisation. Armed with this experience, what would you do differently if you could set the strategic course?
In this article you will be taken into the strategic thinking world of general management and how you can make a substantial tactical contribution to Profit (good for organisation) and also to Prosperity (good for all) with accommodation. The current economic situation makes it necessary for almost all organisations to look critically at cost reductions, but at the same time also at turnover retention/increase.
How can accommodation contribute to finding the right balance between on the one hand cutting costs and on the other hand investing to maintain turnover and perhaps increase turnover?
“Growth (constant improvement of oneself) + Purpose (higher purpose of helping others) =
TRUE WEALTH (long-term sustained happiness).” (René Stevens)
Strategy is basically about value enhancement for all stakeholders and how this can be achieved in a sustainable manner so that the organisation’s right to exist is preserved. Accommodation can also add value. But what value and for whom? It requires a shared vision & values of employers and employees to create value for clients, shareholders and society.
“There is a growing realization that accommodation is more than a cost item.” (René Stevens)
Read more in the article ’Hoe draagt huisvesting bij aan Profit en Prosperity?’ published in Facility Management Magazine (20130913 FMM-Facto Media). Author: René P.M. Stevens MSc Arch/MBA).
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