Three New Designs for Optimizing Collaboration

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  inez@...03/07/08 Report as spam
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  21st Century Communication

  I'm thrilled to see that many companies are acknowledging the need for redesign in the workplace. Thus allowing for the team and collaborative communication style of 21st Century Communicators.
  
  Inez Bracy
  www.thebracygroup.com

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  Architecture that encourages collaboration

  This article reminded me of a video where Verne Harnish describes IBM's research campus architecture - lots of nooks for impromptu hallway meetings, whiteboards everywhere, lots of intersecting walkways among the different campus headquarters (so people with diverse academic disciplines could "cross-pollinate"). The video can be found here: http://www.mindperk.com/Harnish.htm

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  jkennedy200803/11/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Three New Designs for Optimizing Collaboration

  Sounds like a good way to sell smaller cubicles and less privacy. Facilitating collaboration is great, but constant interruptions and movement in your field of view is bound to be distracting. For someone doing programming or work that requires long periods of concentration, this could be an issue.

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  RE: Three New Designs for Optimizing Collaboration

  Physical space is only part of the 'incentive' for people to collaborate. A great deal more is about leadership and the type of culture that people in leadership roles promote. I'm not referring to what they say about collaborating, but the type of interation that they promote through their efforts (or lack thereof) to collaborate with their peers/colleagues. If you do not get a handle on individual excessive egos within teams or the ego of the team leader, collaboration will never, never survive and certainly not thrive.

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  jbemory03/20/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Three New Designs for Optimizing Collaboration

  Great looking work.
  
  As an Architect who works in a rehabilitated former brick brewery filled with creative office spaces - I can't say enough about how important workplace design is. After 6 years of working in this building it still feels new and exciting to work in a restored, renovated, creative, and fun office space.
  
  Good office space design is an investment in the most important asset a business has - it's people. Quality of workplace gives employees incentive to do more, to do better. They sense the investment the employer has made and employees excel.
  
  Great work!
  
  Jesse Emory, AIA
  GBD Architects, Inc

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  commentator8803/26/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Three New Designs for Optimizing Collaboration

  Sounds like shrinking workspace promotes productivity from this article. Hmm...
  I am glad I am still working in one of those old thinking companies... I like my
  office where I can close the door to my colleague's family problems... and
  actually spend the time doing the work I am paid to do!
  
  After "hoteling" into cubicles in different cities/offices/countries... I am glad to
  be home to an OFFICE with a door. I prefer to work in a quieter environment
  where I can CONCENTRATE and finish my work instead of having to do my work
  after everyone has left, or work from home to get that peace to finish my
  thought/work.

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  RE: Three New Designs for Optimizing Collaboration

  It depends on the enviroment. Unfortunately one size does not fit all!
  
  I would agree though that for creative and positive working environments there is a need to have light and space.

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  RE: Three New Designs seller designs

  but the type of interation that they promote through their efforts (or lack thereof) to collaborate with their peers/colleagues.