Not too many year ago when facility organization were in the collectivity and formalization of their evolution that we discussed in Module 1,they had a fair amount of money and personnel, and thought they had a captive market. During that time, in most companies there was only one way to obtain facility service --- through the facility organization. Most FM organization had a monopoly since there were no alternatives available to the customer, which meant that customers had to accept the concept of quality as it was defined by the FM organization. The FM organization provided many services that did not meet customer needs or expectations, but the customer felt trapped. Timeliness, quality and appropriateness of service didn't matter because FM organizations didn't have any competition.
In this dav and age however. the premise that the customer needs to define quality must be a firm belief on the part of every facility professional as it goes to the very core of quality facility service. the concept that customers are the real judges of waht constitutes quality in terms of the service processes, service outcome delivery structure is one that your FM staff needs to endorse wholeheartedly, It doesn't really matter if your organization thinks it is a good job, unless the customer can say the same thing.