Download or read book Innovations in Office Design written by Diane Stegmeier and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-02-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Diane Stegmeier's landmark findings on workplace behavior in the corporate setting will prove vital in determining workplace strategy over the next ten years." —Prentice Knight, CEO of CoreNet Global "The author takes a truly comprehensive approach to understanding the business barriers to the successful implementation of physical space design. The Critical Influence methodology identifies areas of resistance to change and addresses them, enabling the architectural and design firm to do what they do best—create the appropriate workplace solution." —from the Foreword by Greg Bendis "One of the most difficult aspects of facility management is the inability to link environmental improvements with measurable productivity results. Stegmeier’s observations in this area are based on hard facts and real research, not just abstract theories. Her work is an essential tool for any professional looking to justify facility improvements that can actually support and advance the mission of the organization." —Heidi Schwartz, Editor-in-Chief of Today's Facility Manager Magazine This definitive book on innovations in interior office design offers vital lessons on preventing workplace strategy failure for architects, interior designers, facility managers, and business leaders. It fully explains the author's research on the fifteen Critical Influences on behavior in the workplace, and introduces a practical approach to integrate an organization’s cultural, operational, and environmental elements fostering the desired behaviors to support the company’s business goals when designing an office. The book includes case studies of good design in contemporary interior offices illustrating collaborative workplaces that work.

Download or read book Office Design Sourcebook written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Home Office Design written by Neal Zimmerman and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1996-09-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your personal consultant for creating the perfect home work space Here is all the information you need to create a comfortable, efficient home office custom designed to meet your personal and professional needs. In this book, architect and home office design expert Neal Zimmerman shows you how to plan, design, and equip the home office that’s right for you. He helps you decide when to do the work yourself and when to hire professionals; and his numerous floor plans, photos, and examples provide countless design ideas and solutions to virtually every problem you encounter. This practical and inspiring guide provides Clear, step-by-step instructions for planning, organizing, and designing your home office space Simple tools for controlling costs and ensuring that you get the results you want Extensive coverage of workstation design Hundreds of photos, floor plans, and drawings to inspire the imagination and solve problems A broad range of design options to fit every budget Surveys of equipment, furnishings, and accessories available to help make your home office a better organized, more comfortable place to work Guidelines for those who are considering extensive renovations A section on planning for the desktop video era Charts, diagrams, planning methods, and inventory sheets to streamline the planning and design process

Download or read book Space to Work written by Jeremy Myerson and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a comprehensive analysis of emerging office design practice to support and enhance the performance of knowledge workers. It explains how the office is being reinvented to respond to the imperatives of knowledge work, as well as the changing social imperatives and technology of the new millennium.

Download or read book Basics Office Design written by Bert Bielefeld and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dimensions of the core elements of office workplaces – desk and chair – together with the necessary circulation areas determine the design of office buildings. Starting with the module of the individual workplace, larger space configurations result from adding these workplaces in a variety of arrangements, resulting in different office layout typologies. In addition to the space required for desk and chair, it is necessary to provide the required distances as well as floor area for cupboards, movement, and circulation routes within the office rooms. Basics Office Design explains the parameters of this common design task in a clear and easy-to-understand way, placing as much emphasis on ergonomics, comfort, and orientation as on the space requirements, functional relationships, and the different types of offices.

Download or read book Future Office written by Nicola Gillen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The office is dead. Long live the office. Despite decades of predictions that the office is on the verge of extinction, it is surviving and thriving. Of course, things are changing. And changing fast. Digital technologies are transforming not only the work we do, but also the ways our workplaces are designed, built and operated. Automation and AI mean that some jobs will no longer exist whilst others will be created. But the very essence of the workplace — human interaction and collaboration, remains as necessary as ever. In fact, it is the human focus that is driving this new age, with four generations now in the workplace together for the first time. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book discusses the impacts of these changes on the future of work and workplace. The latest technologies are also explored from voice and digital twins, to new materials such as graphene and battery-powered buildings.

Download or read book Detail in Contemporary Office Design written by Drew Plunkett and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Office design has changed significantly over the last few years and is now one of the most innovative areas of interior design. It used to be the case that only the public spaces of an office were creatively designed, but increasingly the staff areas are seen as key reflections of the company brand as well. In more radical offices, there is also a growing belief in the importance of work areas as social spaces and a blurring of the distinction between work and recreation. This book explores in detail 42 of the best recent office design schemes, featuring projects from leading architects from around the world. Each project includes photographs as well as detailed drawings and plans, where appropriate, as well as informative text describing the design concept and process. A bonus CD contains drawings featured in the book, in both eps and dwg (generic CAD) formats.

Download or read book The Other Office 3 written by Ana Martins and published by Frame Publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest volume in Frame’s series of books on workplace design, The Other Office 3 highlights inspirational interiors that are setting the trends in creative workplace design. At its core are around 100 pioneering projects drawn from 86 practices all over the world. Featured offices include ad agencies, media outfits, technology firms and co-workspaces, ranging from compact offices and design hubs to large workplaces. The Other Office 3 is divided into three chapters, each of which offers insight into the main factors driving contemporary office design: the role of the workplace as a brand asset, the growing concern for employee wellbeing, and the need to create inspiring and energising workspaces. Projects are presented on four to six pages, including an in-depth description of both concept and design, illustrated by stunning photography. Outlined are the challenges that designers must overcome to be able to realize more efficient, modern and – all importantly – creative work environments. This book focuses on the current trends in office design, developed with a knowledge of what is at the heart of a creative workforce and its day-to-day requirements. The Other Office 3 highlights outstanding projects and inspirational spaces from across the globe. Features - This 512-page reference book, the latest in Frame’s workplace design series, offers a global overview of prevailing trends in office design - It is filled with nearly 100 pioneering office designs, developed by 86 international studios in the past three years - The book is divided into three chapters, each of which offers insight into the main factors driving contemporary office design - The book’s chapters are contextualised through a brief introduction that sets the tone of the pages ahead. - Featured projects are accompanied by descriptive text and stunning photography.

Download or read book The Office Interior Design Guide written by Julie K. Rayfield and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eine hohe Qualität der Gestaltung der Arbeitsumgebung - noch nie war sie so wichtig wie in den heutigen Zeiten des Downsizings, wachsenden Wettbewerbs und neuer Informationstechnologien. Das Buch richtet sich speziell an Manager, die sich noch nie mit Design befaßt haben, und an interessierte Studenten. Mit Raumaufteilungsplänen, Checklisten und einem nützlichen Glossar.

Download or read book Office Design That Really Works written by Kathleen R. Allen and published by N T C Business Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Office Design That Really Works!" is filled with sensible, easy-to-implement advice. It will guide you through all your office setup and design decisions, from creating your signature image to mapping out your current and future needs.

Download or read book Radical Office Design written by Jeremy Myerson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional office work, characterized by repetitive clerical tasks, is rapidly giving way to "knowledge work," characterized by the creative application and exchange of information. In response, architects around the world are leaving aside the old cubicle grid to design innovative, high-tech offices that foster knowledge work and, at the same time, help workers balance the competing demands of colleagues, customers, and family. The forty-three exceptional workplaces profiled in this timely volume were all completed within the last six years and serve a wide variety of organizations both private and public, small and large. Examples range from the headquarters of an advertising firm where one enormous table seats all two hundred employees, facilitating communication, to a BMW plant where the factory production line runs through and above the administrative offices, unifying the corporate community. The authors skillfully distinguish the primary trends in contemporary office design by dividing their engagingly written case studies among four chapters, each dedicated to a particular type of workplace: "Academics" encourage the sharing of knowledge within a corporate structure; "Guilds" allow the members of a profession to interact as peers; "Agoras" bring the workplace closer to the marketplace, and to civic life; and "Lodges" combine the home and the office. Two hundred vivid color photographs and fifty architectural drawings show how the featured architects have configured public areas, meeting rooms, and private work spaces to meet the needs of today's increasingly versatile and mobile workers. The inclusion of an informative introduction, which outlines the economic and technological factors driving the rapid evolution of contemporary workplace architecture, further ensures that this attractive book will be an essential reference for everybody who has a hand in designing offices, and thought-provoking reading for everybody who works in one.

Download or read book Where We Work written by Shonquis Moreno and published by Frame Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we think about the future of the office in a post-pandemic world, this book provides an indispensable reference tool. The office isn’t dead. But just in what form will it live? Departing from Frame’s successful The Other Office series, Where We Work explores ground-breaking workspaces, providing an indispensable reference tool for interior designers, architects and companies alike. As we think about the future of the office in a post-pandemic world, this book presents important design lessons from the modern office through a curated showcase of 51 projects by designers worldwide. These lessons are highlighted as key takeaways at the end of each of the book’s four chapters: Designing for Community, Flexibility, Identity, and Wellbeing. An introductory essay explores how these four ideas – or ideals – will continue to drive the workspaces of the future. Features •As we think about the future of the office in a post-pandemic world, this 320-page reference book showcases 51 pioneering workspace designs. •The book explores the various iterations of the contemporary workspace, from co-works and corporate offices to work cafés and material libraries, and everything in between. •Projects are accompanied by a detailed description of the design concept, sketches, and stunning photography on four to eight-page features. •Key takeaways at the end of each of the book’s four chapters highlight important design lessons from the modern office.

Download or read book Office Design That Really Works written by Kathleen R. Allen and published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Teaming to Innovate written by Amy C. Edmondson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production.) This book brings together key insights on teaming, as they pertain to innovation. How do you build a culture of innovation? What does that culture look like? How does it evolve and grow? How are teams most effectively created and then nurtured in this context? What is a leader's role in this culture? This little book is a roadmap for teaming to innovate. We describe five necessary steps along that road: Aim High, Team Up, Fail Well, Learn Fast, and Repeat. This path is not smooth. To illustrate each critical step, we look at real-life scenarios that show how teaming to innovate provides the spark that can fertilize creativity, clarify goals, and redefine the meaning of leadership.

Download or read book Me Myself and Us written by Brian R Little and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does your personality shape your life and what, if anything, can you do about it? Are you hardwired for happiness, or born to brood? Do you think you're in charge of your future, or do you surf the waves of unknowable fate? Would you be happier, or just less socially adept, if you were less concerned about what other people thought of you? And what about your "Type A" spouse: is he or she destined to have a heart attack, or just drive you to drink? In the past few decades, new scientific research has transformed old ideas about the nature of human personality. Neuroscientists, biologists, and psychological scientists have reexamined the theories of Freud and Jung as well as the humanistic psychologies of the 1960s, upending the simplistic categorizations of personality "types," and developing new tools and methods for exploring who we are. Renowned professor and pioneering research psychologist Brian R. Little has been at the leading edge of this new science. In this wise and witty book he shares a wealth of new data and provocative insights about who we are, why we act the way we do, what we can -- and can't -- change, and how we can best thrive in light of our "nature." Me, Myself, and Us explores questions that are rooted in the origins of human consciousness but are as commonplace as yesterday's breakfast conversation, such as whether our personality traits are "set" by age thirty or whether our brains and selves are more plastic. He considers what our personalities portend for our health and success, and the extent to which our well-being depends on the personal projects we pursue. Through stories, studies, personal experiences, and entertaining interactive assessments, Me, Myself, and Us provides a lively, thought-provoking, and ultimately optimistic look at the possibilities and perils of being uniquely ourselves, while illuminating the selves of the familiar strangers we encounter, work with, and love.

Download or read book Design Mom written by Gabrielle Stanley Blair and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best seller Ever since Gabrielle Stanley Blair became a parent, she’s believed that a thoughtfully designed home is one of the greatest gifts we can give our families, and that the objects and decor we choose to surround ourselves with tell our family’s story. In this, her first book, Blair offers a room-by-room guide to keeping things sane, organized, creative, and stylish. She provides advice on getting the most out of even the smallest spaces; simple fixes that make it easy for little ones to help out around the house; ingenious storage solutions for the never-ending stream of kid stuff; rainy-day DIY projects; and much, much more.

Download or read book Work written by Annika Schulz and published by Braun Publish,Csi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary office design is a balancing act between meeting functional and technical requirements and creating a unique and comfortable atmosphere. Starting with traditional cubicles, on to custom designed work environments, and ending in open team spac