The learning organisation: An interview with Robert Hillard of Deloitte Consulting

Within its workplace strategy, this leading international consulting firm is blending workplace technologies, knowledge curation and the design of its activity based working (ABW)…

Designing for workplace creativity attracts better workers

To inspire greater creativity and learning within their organisations, business decision-makers must institute workspaces capable of encouraging enhanced collaboration. And if designing for creativity attracts better workers…

Losing fiefdom in the transition to Activity Based Working

In the rush to activity based working (ABW), can losing fiefdom from a two-speed implementation be good for worker spirit and well-being across the organisational board?

How will the Learning Economy transform your workplace?

The rapid growth of a breed of fast-learning, internet-enabled business organisations is likely to have a dramatic effect on our society at all levels, but how will the Learning Economy transform your workplace?

Ten questions for those about to undertake next-generation workplace-design briefing

1. How have you considered using your relocation/fitout as a trigger to change the way the organisation operates, and to what degree is workplace change intended to be its outcome?

How a better workplace-design briefing feeds straight into an organisation’s bottom line

By capturing the necessary detail and insights, a better workplace-design briefing can protect the returns originally intended in its investment in new work space, feeding…

How long can your organisation compete against those deploying the “minimum viable” collaborative office?

A major Sydney financial institution is changing the ways it innovates and brings new products to market by instituting a “minimum viable office” to…

Google wants you to become like it and to use its minimum viable office, so how will your organisation adapt?

The technologies that can deliver the “minimum viable office” to the future’s workers are now here in a single hardware and software package…

How might your workplace property be applied to more effective strategic use?

A strategic resource may generally be conceived as one that can be drawn on to enable or enrich the future of a business, so how might your workplace property be put to better strategic use?

The challenge of instituting collaborative workplace designs that work across the shop

Even longstanding traditional retailers are now investigating collaborative workplace designs that encourage new ways of working through the use of social, sharing workplace…