BIM to FM - where management practices in projects and operations meet

There is interest in the links between Building (or Infrastructure) Information Modelling (BIM) in project delivery and the client's management of the completed buildings and infrastructure. We have started to explore this in a research context, and the preliminary findings of recent work is now online as an ICE briefing sheet.

Visual practices, organizing and management

I've been in Segovia at the great workshop that Paolo Quattrone and others organized, which brought together a range of scholars interested in the role of pictures and performances in accountability and organizing. It was interesting to discover a range of other traditions of thought that address similar questions around visual practices, organizing and management.
For me, in sessions and over lunch, the question of tradition and innovation arose - not least because the setting for the conference was a converted Dominican church, founded by Dominico himself (and my hotel in Segovia had a view of a Roman acqueduct). While I have been interested for some time in how management practices create stability and change, sitting in a chapter house that has a vaulted ceiling and the initials of Isabel and Ferdinand on the roof sets a longer context, one that is not often considered in business and organization studies.