UN Global Compact – and Scottish Facilities Management – different sides of the populist coin…

A polyglot week : first to meet Sir Mark Moody-Stuart and Steve Kenzie of the Global Compact with colleague Paul Temple. We are keen to put across the SME perspective on CSR to people with real clout. Whilst there’s an attentive ear, we can’t help recognising that the ROI for organisations like Global Compact – no more than BITC – who quietly dropped the SME category from their annual awards this year – clearly needs to be focused at large corporates. Understand it – but we do think it loses a key opportunity (if a tough one) to try and engage with real workers in real, down-to-earth organisations. If anything has a chance of fighting populist, frankly dangerous sentiment,. It’s worth doing. We shall see. If we don’t try we shall have ourselves to blame. Anyone for 17 SDG’s??

And thence to Murrayfield – and the FM community, with an interesting talk on BIM – will it require Government mandate to force implementation of 1192-3 – stages 6 & 7 – post implementation?? Frankly, have attended lots on BIM over last five years – no-one is grasping the nettle of the business model – who will pay for the maintenance of registers – who will monitor and what will sanctions be in case of default??? Followed by an excellent role play of a Health and Safety interview under caution following a fatality. Real step-back-and-think stuff. And topped off by a rousing speech from Gavin Hastings – clearly leading to victory over the Welsh 10 days later. Oops, nationalism raising its head – so when is it acceptable and when isn’t it?? Thanks to Michael Kenny for the usual excellent organisation.