| Committee |
Team Members |
Description |
Status and Scheduled Events |
| Steering Committee |
Joel Ratekin, Ratekin Consulting, LLC
Chris Hood, Hewlett Packard
Kate North, Haworth Ideation Group |
Overall stewardship and guidance for knowledge topics and team development |
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| Senior Content Advisors |
Tom Davenport, Babson College
Frank Duffy, DEGW
Bill Porter, MIT |
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| Move to Mobility |
Bethany Davis, Nokia
Chris Hood, HP
Gil Gordon, Gil Gordon Associates
Dan Johnson, Accenture |
This team is capturing the transformational qualities that technology has brought about which enable employees to work almost anywhere at any time. The material explores the advantages of such mobility to organizations and individuals and begins to work through the implications to the Workplace. |
Status: Complete
Atlanta 07 Summit Presentation
Nov 2007 Newsletter
Webinar - April
Available in PDF format (link to location) |
| Metrics & Business Case |
Kevin Kampschroer, GSA Judith Heerwagen, Heerwagen & Associates Christine Barber, Gensler |
Traditional workplace metrics typically fail to recognize new goals and objectives assigned to the workplace. It is simply not enough to describe real estate portfolios in terms of their cost per square foot or density. New imaginative measures are called for which speak both to measures of efficiency and increasingly workplace effectiveness covering such issues as productivity, ability to attract and retain staff, employee satisfaction and the sustainability of the solution. |
Status: See Below;
Decided to split effort and create two complimentary packages each taking a slightly different course.
Event: Webinar
Date: 5/12/09
Time: Noon |
| Metrics & Business Case 1 |
Christine Barber, Gensler Janet Pogue, |
Globalization, the knowledge economy, emerging technologies and, most recently, the growing awareness of global warming have placed increased pressure on businesses to identify and report new, non-traditional and non-financial measures of performance. |
Status: Advanced |
| Metrics & Business Case 2 |
Kevin Kampschroer, GSA Judith Heerwagen, Heerwagen & Associates |
It is easiest to change the behaviours that appear to be of lower value to organizations (comfort, satsfaction). As behaiors become more complex, many other factors become critical in creating change. High level business outcomes are greatly influenced by non-workplace factors |
Status: Advanced |
| Information Technology |
Mike Bell, FMR
Keith Perske, Group 5 Consulting
Tom Davenport, Babson College
Larry Barkley, Bricsnet |
The technology team discusses the entire IT infrastructure of work and connects the technologies which have been commonly adopted, to notable shifts in where and how work is performed through their "enabling qualities". |
Status: Complete
Event:
Webinar (date forthcoming) |
| Change Management |
Glen Dirks, Sun Microsystems
Peter Miscovitch, JLL Susan Mitchell Ketzes, HOK |
The move to new ways of working, or sometimes the realization that was in already "just working differently" can be a very emotional ride. Only a few actually thrive on change and welcome it. For others, it is hard work, unsettling and often unwelcome at a time when much else in their lives may also be in a state of flux. Well-targeted communications and change management programs can build acceptance, accelerate the reaching of a new "status quo" and really improve employee's lives. The whats, whys, hows and whens are discussed. |
Status: Complete
Event: Webinar
Date: 11/11/08
Time: Noon |
| Impact on Culture |
Terri Hammill, Hewitt
Cindy Froggatt, JLL Lenny Beaudoin, JLL Damla Sener, JLL |
As workforces become more distributed and more mobile some raise concerns over the possible degradation or uncontrollable shift of the Corporate Culture. This team argues that change, if unmanaged, may have the impact described. But, carefully managed, this force can change the company's culture in a beneficial way; better preparing it to face increased global competition and the need for continuous reinvention. |
Status: Complete
Event: Webinar
Date: 7/14/09
Time: Noon |
Physical Solutions
(aka Strategic Workplace Process) |
Despina Katsikakis, DEGW Jan Johnson, Allsteel Gervais Tompkin, Gensler |
This team is taking a fundamental view of the drivers, which describe the various physical workplace needs. They will describe the development of physical solutions in five sections:
- Opportunities Worth Changing For
- How to Match Solutions to the Opportunities
- Case Studies Illustrating Different Opportunity Scales
- Examples of Useful Design Process Tools
- Ideas for the Future Workplace
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Status: Complete
Event:Webinar
Date: 1/13/09
Time: Noon
San Diego Workplace Community Event |
| Future Trends |
Jim Ware, Work Design Collaborative
Charlie Grantham, Work Design Collaborative
Bill Porter, MIT
Frank Duffy, DEGW Frank Becker, Cornell University |
In an environment demonstrative of the very subject matter, these five experts ponder the future. Through answers to the following five questions they provide a colorful insight into what might lie ahead.
- What do you consider the two most important forces driving significant change in the future of work and the workplace?
- What are the most significant forces for the status quo?
- What will the workplace look like in 5 to 10 years? Think both micro and macro, work stations, interiors etc. as well as what kinds of buildings we will be using and where they will be located.
- How will the rising cost of gasoline and attention to global climate change affect commuting patterns and corporate travel?
- What "wild cards" or external threats could completely surprise and disrupt our visions of the future of work?
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Status: Complete
Event: San Diego Workplace Community Event;
Discovery Forum Altanta. |
| Workforce Trends and Sustainability |
Marty Anderson, Fidelity Barbara Greenberg
Donna Becco, Schroeder Bill Porter |
Successive generations of workers appear to be in ever-accelerating change cycles. Each group is a product of their upbringing and the environment which surrounds them. In the workplace this can lead to conflicts as the beliefs, emphasis and values of the different generations fail to fully align. Who then, does one design the workplace for and what are the forward looking attributes of the workplace which will endear it to today's and tomorrow's work forces. This team will discuss this issue with a heavy emphasis on the fact that whatever the details might be, overall it must be far more kind to the environment and be planned to increasingly lessen the carbon footprint per person of the workforce. |
Status: Webinar
Date: 3/10/09
Time:Noon |
| The housing industry, community development and remote working |
Bob Tanguay AOS USA Jim Ware
Charlie Grantham
Camille Venezia |
Identifying ways in which the housing industry, and quite possibly the furniture and equipment industry could respond to the mobile office market. As we apply mobility to the corporate work environment and offer settings much like a home and amenities much like a community, that is places designed to support specific activities, a mobile worker may find themselves operating with the same limitations as brought about by the traditional office, consisting of a room or place in the home where they will end up spending their workday for a variety of activities. We intend to explore the concept of a home office and community from a developer’s point of view as well as from people involved and experienced in mobile work. |
Status: Underway |
| Physical workplace solutions: the sequel (tactical issues) |
Randy Howder Gensler Peter Icely CIBC Scott Francisco, Studios Arch Jan Johnson, All Steel Chris Budd David Craig DEGW |
A pragmatic look at the physical workplace solutions which support the workplace strategic thinking derived in the Strategic Workplace Process work |
Status:
Underway |
| Third Place Workers |
John Fonner, BHDP
Laura Kozelouzek
Nanci Klein, City of San Jose |
To discuss commerically effective new paradigms of thrid place solutions in places like Panera and Sratbucks, newly conceived to address mobile worker needs. |
Status:
Underway |