Managing Space with Business Intelligence

Presenters

Sucheta Kulkarni
GIS Coordinator, Office of Space Management
Medical School

Frances Mueller
Project Manager, Space Utilization Initiative
Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

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• Watch a recording of the event!
• Watch a demo of ArcGIS, presented by Sucheta Kulkarni

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• Managing Research Space with Business Intelligence
• Business Intelligence and the Space Utilization Initiative

Space is one of the most valuable (and costly) assets. The rising expense of facilities operations and maintenance, as well as fierce competition for research space, led the Medical School to examine space allocation using Business Intelligence. Their work resulted in an overall increase in space productivity, faster response time for space requests, and increased data integrity.

From the Medical School's Office of Space Management, Julie Walsh and Sucheta Kulkarni discussed the work that won their team a 2009 BI Award. Their presentation highlighted:

• Development of performance metrics
• Benchmark setting
• Leveraging of GIS technology to enable geo-based analysis
• Visualization to support fact-based management decisions

U-M Space Utilization Initiative Project Manager, Frances Mueller, was also on hand to share:

• The Provost's plans for space analysis
• Research space guidelines
• Data requirements to support this analysis