5 workplace design conditions that nurture responsive R&D strategies

Apply “The New Technical…

5 factors that promise satisfaction and wellbeing in product development

3 leading companies show how organization design follows building design

Buildings and transformation

For more than a decade, we and our peers have contended to ourselves and to our clients that the workplace is a strategic asset, a…

Why it’s wrong to separate time and place when designing for culture and engagement

There is thus a time and place to focus on employee engagement, and a time and place to focus on culture evolution. Let’s not conflate the two, or we may end up solving the wrong problem…

Creatives like cities, engineers like suburbs

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

It’s a phrase that I somehow picked up in fifth grade or thereabouts and went around repeating it as a mark of erudition without any comprehension. It’s a concept, now discredited, that…

Six rules to optimize the design of the workspace as platform

Why do we keep talking about the open office this way?

Unlocking the door to great design

How Michael Beirut finds the right fit

The workplace of the useless class

Over the past decade or more, “workplace strategy” has been about financial metrics (as measured in…

When the room is the smartest person in the room