Pat Ripley, presenter from e-commerce VT
Recently, I attended an advanced social media workshop presented by Pat Ripley, State Broadband Adviser and e-commerce liason to the VtSBDC. He provides workshops like this around the state to large and small communities helping Vermont businesses with their web presence, social media and media marketing efforts.
Pat shared both basics and best [...]

The high performing workplace, like the complicated world in which we live, work and play, isn’t necessarily simple to achieve. Such a workplace reflects the need to soundly integrate work processes, physical settings and furniture along with technology in service to the overall business needs of the organization and its larger mission. It’s also hard [...]

In late March, I toured One Haworth Center located in Holland, MI, the global headquarters of the Haworth Inc., one of the big five workplace solutions/systems furniture companies here in the U.S. Office Environments, the local Haworth Dealer, organized the day long tour for local facilities personnel, architects and interior designers.
As an architect engaged in the [...]

Previously, I wrote about initial results of the Strategic Workplace Survey I conducted to test out the Surveymonkey interface and gather insight about key business issues shaping the high performance workplace in 2011 and beyond. I also sought out insight on how respondents’ workplace environments could be improved through better more informed design and operational strategies.

Increased worker [...]

Is this the future of work for us? Take a look. It’s really interesting and in some cases compelling. It’s also dated from 2009. With the advent of the I-pad and the ever decreasing sizes of screens and thinness, it certainly seems very probable we’re heading to something like this.  
Our children and their children’s world [...]

Last summer while attending NEOCON 2010 in Chicago, I visited Workspring just a few blocks away from the Merchandise Mart. Prior to visiting, I had been talking on and off with Mark Greiner, Workspring’s General Manager and the Chief Experience Officer (CXO), Steelcase Inc. and a Senior VP. 
He told me how the business developed out of [...]

I ran into Kevin Kelley from the GSA public building service at NEOCON East in Baltimore last fall.
He mentioned Workplace Matters, a GSA applied research design book published in 2006 as a great resource for those interested in the design of the high performance and sustainable workplace. Kevin was a principal author along with Kevin [...]