"...[In] a  high performing learning organization...physical setting, technology, work processes, management style, and organizational philosophy and values are in harmony.  Together they create a dynamic workplace that supports diversity in work patterns, values cooperation and collaboration, encourages creativity and hard work, and measures a specialized kind of performance."

Becker and Steele, 1995

As our environments are put to use, users face a host of issues related to their new organizational "home."  Knowledge workers must design for themselves, ways to meet the demands of:

• System interdependency
• Changing expectations about what is "real work" and where the worker is located when doing it
• Technology that is flexible and portable
• Support programs to cope with change
• Employee participation in design and use of space
• Process vs. solution approaches
• Support from organizational leadership

Our environments are designed to facilitate organizational transformation.  We standardize the principles--but not the design--because the design has to be made in terms of the context of local cultural and work requirements.  As a result, the organizational demands on the environment also change.  Our system of rapid prototyping allows us to rapidly design, build and equip an environment.  As time passes, with feedback from the users, we alter the re-equip the space, maintaining the armature.  The environment becomes one which is truly enduring--managing continuous change to increase productivity, creativity, and comfort.  By appropriately responding to user feedback, we are able to provide work environments that are healthier, promote more creativity, and increase human happiness in the workplace.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"Bottom line: This the the greatest opportunity we as individuals have had in all of history to design our own lives, our work, and our personal living environments to meet our own needs and dreams.

Harry S. Dent, 1995

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