The Challenge of Categorising Facility Management Solutions in Nigeria


When someone types facility management companies in Nigeria or the list of facility management companies in Nigeria, Google and other search engines deliver a significant number of results. Performing the same task within the context of understanding solutions being offered by the companies equally gives results, revealing management, maintenance and services as the keywords for marketing or communicating hard, soft and supply FM solutions.


Infoprations’ analysis shows that 17 companies are providing 181 solutions (a cumulative analysis). On average, 20 solutions are being provided by the companies. Out of the 181 solutions discovered, 116 solutions are being promoted on the companies’ website using conceptual approach. This indicates that the companies prefer simple description of the solutions to the classical structure, which allows categorisation of solutions based on their similar features or benefits.
The analysis further reveals that 54 solutions were categorised as conceptual solutions. Twelve of the solutions were not categorised properly. This establishes that the solutions are not placed in classical and conceptual categories.  
As people and businesses develop more interest in facility management solutions, FM companies need to place their solutions within classical categorisation to enhance understanding of the specific features and benefits. This is imperative because clients would be more curious in knowing the extent to which each FM solution will solve their problems starting from 2019, a year before some places become smart cities in Lagos.

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