Cleaning Industry Articles

We started this series with a simple question: how can in-house custodial organizations at colleges and universities compete with the outsource...

In the last article we talked about how you can improve your university’s custodial operations by engaging your equipment and supplies vendor. Most...

As a rule, most facility managers take advice from their supplies and equipment vendor with a grain of salt. That’s to be expected. In fact, in our...

There are other ways to benchmark. Today we’ll talk about how you can benchmark your in-house custodial practices by joining a trade association....

If you’ve taken the advice from our previous articles, then you’ve begun benchmarking against other departments inside your university or college....

In last week’s article, we talked about the limitations of benchmarking within your organization. We talked about how innovation and new ideas are...

In our last article we talked about how benchmarking against other internal organizations is an affordable and easy way to begin improving your...

Benchmarking against internal departments is one of the most practical ways to jumpstart your custodial benchmarking process. Why start outside your...

Let’s say you have a top-notch product that’s in high demand. Are you in a great position? Absolutely. But you’re by no means guaranteed to succeed,...