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The Next Office: Why CEOs Are Paying Attention: Issue 63
Executives everywhere are being asked to deliver higher performance from every company asset. Yet they often overlook an asset that’s both highly leverageable and pivotal to the organization’s success: the office. Like all executives around the world, Steelcase president…
Tags: Collaboration, Competitive Advantage, Interconnected Workplace, WorkCaféFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles
The New Third Place: Issue 63
Giving workers control and choice over where and how they work. Free-address workplaces. Collaboration hubs. Third places, and now even fourth places. Alternative workplaces. Coworking spaces. Serviced offices. Whatever they’re called or where they’re located, they’re the workplace…
Tags: Interconnected Workplace, Third Place, WorkCaféFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
Madrid: Ready for an Interconnected World: Issue 63
WorkLife Madrid was recently renovated to demonstrate how the workplace can help organizations thrive in our accelerated, interconnected world. The space reflects new insights, ideas and solutions that address the diverse ways people are working today and demonstrates…
Tags: Global, Interconnected Workplace, Work/LifeFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
Trends 360: Issue 63
Taking measure of an interconnected world. At last count Talk about virtual connections: Around the world, 247 billion emails are sent daily, according to Radicati Group. Data in the world is doubling every 18 months, and by 2013 most computing…
Tags: Global, Interconnected Workplace, TrendsFiled under: 360 Magazine, Trends360,
Perspectives: Issue 63
Meet some of the people who contributed information and ideas to this issue. Jim Keane has observed firsthand how business has grown increasingly interconnected, mobile, global and complex. He’s president of the Steelcase Group, which includes Steelcase, Turnstone,…
Tags: Global, How People Work, Interconnected WorkplaceFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
It’s All In A Day’s Work: Issue 63
Lauren Renner represents much of what’s refreshing and new about business today. At 26, she’s a part of Gen Y, the young people who are seemingly comfortable with all technology, eager to learn from everyone, ready and willing to collaborate with…
Tags: Collaboration, Interconnected Workplace, media:scapeFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
Distributed But Not Distant: Bringing Remote Teammates to the Table: Issue 63
Knowledge work is becoming increasingly collaborative as we tackle more projects in groups, working side by side with colleagues. But what if your job requires collaboration with people you rarely, if ever, meet? Distributed teams are common in…
Tags: Distributed Collaboration, Interconnected Workplace, WormholeFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
Lessons Learned: Issue 63
People prefer working at an office because it’s where colleagues, technology, and tools (in that order of importance) are most accessible. Keep that ranking, and these lessons, in mind when planning an interconnected workplace. Value real estate effectively…
Tags: Corporate Culture, Interconnected Workplace, Real Estate OptimizationFiled under: 360 Magazine, Lessons Learned,
Small Companies Are Just Like Big Companies… Only Different.: Issue 63
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight that matters, it’s the size of the fight in the dog, according to the old saying. It’s the same with a company in today’s global, mobile, interconnected world. …
Tags: Interconnected Workplace, Small Business, Turnstone, Wellbeing, Workspace FuturesFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
Q&A with Lynda Gratton: Issue 63
London School of Business professor and author sees five forces affecting our lives: Technology, Globalization, Demography and Longevity, Society and Energy Resources. Life would be so much easier if someone gave us a peek at the future,…
Tags: Future of WorkFiled under: 360 Magazine, Q & A,
Sustainability Spotlight: Issue 63
A look at people and organizations that are making the world better for us all. Vertical Screen Tony D’Orazio is like a lot of people. He’s a businessman who doesn’t think of himself as an environmental activist….
Tags: LEED Certification, Sustainability Spotlight, Vertical ScreenFiled under: 360 Magazine, Sustainability Spotlight,
Design APPS: Issue 63
Innovative Application Ideas Classrooms for active learning Observation How do you make a classroom more engaging for both the student and the instructor? No learning space is more in need of fresh design thinking than the classroom. Everyone…
Tags: Active Learning, Education, Innovation, LearnLab, media:scapeFiled under: 360 Magazine, Design APPS, Featured Articles,
A New Learning Curve: Issue 63
Ideas on planning and designing learning spaces from Lennie Scott-Webber, Ph.D., director of education environments for Steelcase Education Solutions About the author, Lennie Scott-Webber, Ph.D. I’ve owned and operated design firms in the U.S. and Canada, taught at…
Tags: Active Learning, Education, Innovation, Steelcase Education SolutionsFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles, Steelcase Education Solutions,
Atoms & Bits: Issue 63
Designing better, together How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline? Steelcase and OpenIDEO have presented a “challenge” to OpenIDEO’s global community of over 19,000 people in over 180 countries to contribute their inspirations…
Filed under: 360 Magazine, Atoms & Bits,
Is Your Workplace Ready for the Interconnected World?: Issue 62
Can it handle the global, mobile, nonstop reality of business today? Because that’s the new reality for globally integrated enterprises. Business is increasingly a team sport that leverages technology to cross borders and time zones. Work is more…
Tags: Collaboration, Global, Infragistics, Interconnected Workplace, Skype, TechnologyFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
Creating Workplaces for Wellbeing: Issue 62
For employers all over the world, wellbeing is gaining attention fast as a business issue — for good reason. Especially for knowledge workers, over-the-top complexity has given rise to a host of under-met human needs. That’s a big…
Tags: Collaboration, Healthcare, Humana, WellbeingFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
Putting Healthcare in a Better Place: Issue 62
In hospitals all over the world, workarounds are multiplying while staffs are more challenged than ever to provide care in facilities that don’t adequately support them or their work. Higher-quality healthcare is a big objective all over the…
Tags: Healthcare, Nurture, User-CenteredFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
Un/Tethered: Issue 62
Just a generation ago, work and life were treated as different entities. Thanks to mobile technology and a globally interconnected world, we’ve gone from “Honey, I’m home!” to “I’ll be just a second, I’m checking email.” What does…
Tags: Coalesse, Interconnected Workplace, Work/LifeFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
A User-Centered Approach for Positive Energy: Issue 62
The world’s first large-scale positive energy office building When the world’s first large-scale positive energy office building is completed early this summer outside Paris, a lot of people will be watching. This new workplace for 1,200 people puts…
Tags: Positive Energy, Technology, User-CenteredFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
How Steelcase is Rethinking the Workplace: Issue 62
The Steelcase headquarters building opened in 1983, when an office meant bulky computers, high panels, and long rows of lateral files. Digital storage, cell phones, and the mobile workforce were a long way off. The building’s five floors and 360,000…
Tags: Collaboration, InnovationFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
