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A ThinkWorkPlace conversation on the Untethered Workplace: Workplace agility has emerged as the single highest priority that underpins workplace services and infrastructure in the new business environment of the Knowledge economy. What is required to meet this challenge is more than an adaptable work environment and user-controlled applications, but a workplace that is constantly transforming, adjusting and responding to enhanced organizational learning and shifts in the requirements of customer experience- expectations and swings in the volatile marketplace. This radical departure from the concept of predetermined standardized and stationary envelope of work to a workplace services and settings that are extensions and active components of the work process will impact corporation; The Business of Facility and Design of the Built Environments.TRANSCRIPT
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UNTETHERED WORKPLACE
“Everyone knows the legend that innovation starts in a garage, but sooner or later we all grow up and need a place to work.” Tom Kelley IDEO - The Art of Innovation,
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Dictionaryuntethered [ʌnˈtɛðəd]
adjnot tied or limited with or as if with a tether
Thesaurus untethered - not confined or restricted with a tether
unbound - not restrained or tied down by bonds
A workplace that is not confined or restricted or bound nor restrained or bound
DEFINITION
"Disrupted by the forces of globalization and now slammed by the economic downturn, many companies are struggling with how best to become more operationally efficient… With the challenges of the multi-polar world pressing in on their companies,
most executives are already on a journey to change their company’s operations models, whether they recognize it or not" Accenture - Operational Excellence in Extraordinary Times
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Several changes in the working environment will ensure the Untethered Workplace:
Workplace is a crucible for innovation – creativity and analytical thinkingThe workplace is constantly evolving through transformation of the work infrastructure
Increase in collaboration through a non-hierarchical approachIncreased leverage in power and wisdom of crowd in the workplace
Globalization is transforming the work infrastructureTechnology makes perform work anywhere – in the office or out
Addition of technology savvy generation of employees to the workforceThe blurring of boundaries between personal and business purposes
TIPPING POINT
“As work becomes more flexible and communication more mobile, the office is turning into an increasingly complex and even abstract concept…..The workplace is evolving in a number of ways, many of which would be utterly unrecognizable to the likes of
Dilbert and his cubicle-dwelling coworkers. ” Jeanne Meister, in Forbes Magazine article: Death Of The Office
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These influences are impacting the infrastructure of the workplace:
Workplace ProcessStrategy │ Objectives │ Skills│ Systems
Workplace SettingsBuilt Environment │ Convergence │Multi-Location │ Accessibility
Workplace ResourcesPeople │ Technology │ Agility │ Usability
Workplace ElementsFurniture │Tools │ Reconfiguration │ Churn
TRANSFORMING WORK
"Disrupted by the forces of globalization and now slammed by the economic downturn, many companies are struggling with how best to become more operationally efficient… With the challenges of the multi-polar world pressing in on their companies,
most executives are already on a journey to change their company’s operations models, whether they recognize it or not" Accenture - Operational Excellence in Extraordinary Times
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These impact on the workplace will create:
High Performance WorkplaceStrategy │ Objectives │ Initiatives│ Systems
Effective WorkplaceBuilt Environment │ Convergence │Multi-Location │ Accessibility
Competitive Advantage WorkplacePeople │ Technology │ Agility │ Usability
Evolving WorkplaceFurniture │Tools │ Reconfiguration │ Churn
TRANSFORMING WORKPLACE
"CEOs must now be more architect than general: the job is to design working environments where thousands of people know what to do, cooperate to get it done, and experience it as personally fulfilling.”"
Jonathan D. Day – Mckinsey Quarterly – Value in organisation
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Where workplace agility is the highest priorityContinuously improves:
work the infrastructure that enables work
Constantly:Transforming
Adjustingresponding to change
Respond efficiently to change in times of:Competition
evolving work practiceseconomic uncertainty.
NEW ENTERPRISE: UNTETHERED
“Nearly two decades into the third major technological revolution of modern human history, we have yet to identify the new enterprise that provides a model for the future--one that exemplifies the power of information and communications
technologies to challenge past management practices” Eleanor Westney of Schulich School of Business
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A dynamic relationship between:work
the workplace the tools of work
Integral part of work itself:enabling work
shaping it being shaped by it
NEW WORKPLACE: UNTETHERED
"Executives have become increasingly sophisticated in the past couple of decades at analyzing the value of current operationsand at using that analysis to help them manage with the goal of increasing shareholder value. But they still need to supplement
the well-developed tools they use for value-based management with one that can analyze their company’s future value, the portion of the share price that isn’t based on the earnings from current operations or products.
MIT Sloan Management Review article: The Future Is Now.
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An adaptable work environment with user-controlled applications
Radical departure from the concept of:predetermined standardized stationary envelope of work
To a workplace services, settings and elements that are:extensions
active components of the work process
NEW WORKPLACE: UNTETHERED
"Executives have become increasingly sophisticated in the past couple of decades at analyzing the value of current operationsand at using that analysis to help them manage with the goal of increasing shareholder value. But they still need to supplement
the well-developed tools they use for value-based management with one that can analyze their company’s future value, the portion of the share price that isn’t based on the earnings from current operations or products.
MIT Sloan Management Review article: The Future Is Now.
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For Corporations:Implement & Manage Effective Workplace
The Business of the Facility:Build & Maintain Evolving Facilities
The Business of Design:Envision & Design Evolving Environments
UNTETHERED WORKPLACE CHALLENGE
UNTETHERED WORKPLACE
Your company’s survival may depend on the way you answer one question: “How will your company adapt” - Fast Company
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UNTETHERED WORKPLACE
CONNECT
Profilehttp://ca.linkedin.com/in/philthom77/
Consulting:www.optumplus.com
Web:www.thinkworkplace.com
Email:[email protected]
“It is easiest to measure those things that can be measured most easily. But it is not always true that the most measurable things are the most valuable” – David Seedhouse
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UNTETHERED WORKPLACE
BUSINESS │ WORKPLACE
WHEN YOU SEE BOTH SIDES │ YOU HAVE TO REWRITE THE RULES
THINKWORKPLACERewriting the rules of the workplace