The Intentional Office
To make the office “worth the commute” customers are seeking more adaptable individual spaces, flexible collaborative spaces, social settings to create culture, shared focus spaces to think, and seamless connection experiences for remote participants. When planning a workspace with intentionality, the result is thoughtfulness and longevity with the ways the office supports a workforce.
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Building a Case for Workplace Change
Blog, Planning and Design
The speed of business and technological change is exponentially faster than ever before. Coupled with evolving worker expectations and the global talent shortage, companies will need to continuously change to survive in today’s market.
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In Search of the Holy Grail: Knowledge Worker Productivity
Blog, Planning and Design
If only we had a consistent and reliable way to measure knowledge worker effectiveness. Just imagine all we could do with that—like testing a mountain of possible enablers to see if they cause improvements.
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Measuring What Matters
Research, Planning and Design
Defining and measuring the effectiveness of a workplace designed to readily support changing technology, work processes and the workforce will require identifying and adopting new performance metrics that will be used in addition to the workplace performance metrics used today.
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Creating an Easier Transition Out of Private Offices
Blog, Planning and Design
Moving out of enclosed offices into workstations is one of the more difficult workplace changes to make, since it almost always has emotional and political issues tied to it.
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The Four Keys to a Successful Workplace
Blog, Planning and Design
Following the popular trends and doing what everyone else is doing may feel like the best option. But benchmarking other organizations can only tell us what’s commonplace—it doesn’t tell us what’s right for our particular organization with our unique set of circumstances.
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Key #1 to a Successful Workplace: Alignment
Blog, Planning and Design
We use alignment instead of promoting some definitive one-size-fits-everyone truth because each organization needs the workplace to reflect and enable their unique organization: their current realities, their brand and values, their business strategy for the coming year or two, their culture and its unwritten rules.
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Key #2 to a Successful Workplace: Effectiveness
Blog, Planning and Design
Using interactive tools including interviews and focus groups, workplace strategists identify the most business-critical processes an individual or a team contributes; and within those critical processes, the most critical activities individuals and teams engage in to deliver successful outcomes.
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Key #3 to a Successful Workplace: Efficiency
Blog, Planning and Design
In previous posts, we advocated for alignment between an organization’s workplace strategy and its unique combination of current realities and business strategies, as well as its brand, values and culture, to ensure the workplace is truly tuned and tailored to that unique organization.
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Key #4 to a Successful Workplace: Adaptability
Blog, Planning and Design
The last of the four keys is Adaptability: enabling the workplace to evolve as the organization does, keeping up with the speed of the business.
