Download or read book Workspace Strategies written by Jacqueline C. Vischer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in era of transformation--of technology, of social values, and of the way work is done. This book represents a timely and innovative ad dition to current thinking and writing about transformation in organiza tions. In order to meet an increasingly global and competitive environment, organizations are undergoing reengineering, work process redesign, "right sizing," creating a "virtual office," and other forms of restructur ing and basic change of the way work is accomplished. Such transfor mation means analyzing and redesigning core processes in organizations around new kinds of principles such as "total quality" and customer service. The eventual effect of these changes is likely to be the networked or "boundary-Iess" organization, in which the tradi tional boundaries between functions and between producers and their suppliers-and sometimes even between organizations and their com petitors-are broken down. The goal of such transformation is to make the work of the organization more efficient and productive-to produce more with fewer resources and at a lower cost. In the conventional view of the transformation process, certain sec ondary concerns, such as the need to protect the environment or to help an increasingly heterogeneous work force deal with its personal issues, are seen as problematic for this core thrust. Some recent work, however, is beginning to show that if these so-called secondary concerns are con sidered central, far from being problematic, they actually present strat egy opportunities for productive innovation and change.
Download or read book Offices at Work written by Franklin Becker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-04-18 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Fortune 500 companies still struggle with workplace planning and design issues. Millions of dollars are invested each year by companies with the expectation that new buildings and major renovations will help transform their culture, spark innovation, and herald new work patterns that strengthen performance while reducing costs. But, as Franklin Becker points out, popular trends do not always make good sense. Offices at Work addresses the fundamental design issues that organizational leaders confront such as: How do we create a low-cost flexible environment that motivates employees and stimulates learning? Is it worth our spending the time, money, and effort to consolidate our disparate buildings into a new corporate campus? How else can we address status concerns besides giving people offices? Order your copy today!
Download or read book Workspace Strategies written by Jacqueline C. Vischer and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smart Office Organizing written by Sandra Felton and published by Revell. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizing experts help readers tackle every type of office organizing challenge at work or at home.
Download or read book Strategic Workforce Planning written by Ross Sparkman and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Workforce Planning is a practical guide to effectively assess, manage and prepare for current and future workforce requirements. It demystifies the often complex and seemingly technical world of strategic workforce planning to explain what it is, why it's necessary and most importantly, how to do it. Packed full of advice and real-world examples, Strategic Workforce Planning is a playbook for workforce planning from beginning to end. It enables HR professionals to answer core business questions including how do I analyze future hiring demand? How do I assess what skills will be required in the future? How should I prioritize investments like training and development? How do I assess the supply of talent around the world? How do I identify the business drivers that impact workforce demand? It also covers the impact of artificial intelligence (AI), automation and machine learning on the global workforce and how to deal with these implications. Whether you're a start-up, small business or a large corporate, this book will show you how to align people strategy with company strategy to ensure your organization maintains its competitive advantage.
Download or read book Workplace Strategy for the Flexible Office written by Aram Seddigh and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workplace Strategy for the Flexible Office will give you the theoretical understanding and the practical tools needed for creating and implementing a workplace strategy as you move towards a new office or way of working. Using both the physical design of the workplace and the way of working as jumping-off points, Aram Seddigh presents five research-based principles that guide your thinking when developing workplace strategies, and how this work can be carried out. These principles are Right-sizing, Diversify, Facilitate Collaboration, Increase Adaptability, and Insights Through Participation. Together they form the Workplace Adequacy Framework. In the first part of the book, you'll gain insight into the current state of research in the field, with a theoretical model to deepen your knowledge. The next part presents a method and a practical review on how to develop and apply a workplace strategy. The final part of the book shows how workplace strategies could be executed by two different organisations - a tech company and a production company - with differing conditions. This book focuses on hybrid and flexible ways of working (like activity-based working, for example), but the method can also be applied to other ways of working. The book can be used as course literature in the education of workplace strategists and related roles, as well as for architects, project managers, change managers, workers within HR and real estate departments, facility managers, real estate consultants and similar professions whose work involves office design and new ways of working.
Download or read book Leadership in Spaces and Places written by Arja Ropo and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By combining new research on leadership and workspaces, Leadership in Spaces and Places argues for a radical reconceptualization of leadership. They argue leadership is not only about leaders themselves, but is also affected by the built environment. <
Download or read book The Green Workplace written by Leigh Stringer and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As 21st-century companies realize they'll need to be green to compete, sustainable ideas are spreading like wildfire throughout all fields of modern business. In The Green Workplace, Leigh Stringer, an expert on sustainable workplace design and strategy, shows companies on the cusp of radically transforming their practices how to bring together diverse teams and establish new organizational governance for creative problem-solving in greening their workplace. Her hands-on green strategies are based on concrete and cost-effective changes such as: - working from home - ways to cut commuting costs - video conferencing to cut down on travel - increasing access to natural light to save energy - and more. Stringer explains how managers can implement these changes smoothly and efficiently. In solving key problems, she shows companies how a green business reduces costs, increases productivity, improves recruiting and retention, and increases shareholder value, in addition to benefiting the environment.
Download or read book Building Performance Evaluation written by Wolfgang F.E. Preiser and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main aim of this book is to present an intriguing retrospective of Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) as it evolved from Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) over the past 25 years. On one hand, this is done by updating original authors' chapter content of Building Evaluation, the first edition published in 1989. That, in turn, is augmented by an orientation toward current and future practice on the other, including new authors who are engaged in ongoing, cutting edge projects. Therefore, individual, methodology oriented chapters covering the fundamental principles of POE and BPE go along with major thematic chapters, topics of which like sustainability or integration of new technologies are addressed in a diversity of case studies from around the globe. Research, methodologies, and framework of POEs continue to evolve. POEs are one step, on the larger scale of BPE, in understanding how buildings function after they are occupied. This resource helps a rchitects, building owners, and facility managers understand the implications and reactions to the facilities that they designed, built and/or commissioned. By considering the whole process from conception to future uses of the building, there can be a more holistic approach to the planning, programming, design, construction, occupancy, and future adaptability of the structure. This book is dedicated to first editor Wolfgang F. E. Preiser who passed away during the process of editing and reviewing chapters of this volume.
Download or read book Creating the Productive Workplace written by Derek Clements-Croome and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The built environment affects our physical, mental and social well-being. Here renowned professionals from practice and academia explore the evidence from basic research as well as case studies to test this belief. They show that many elements in the built environment contribute to establishing a milieu which helps people to be healthier and have the energy to concentrate while being free to be creative. The health and well-being agenda pervades society in many different ways but we spend much of our lives in buildings, so they have an important role to play within this total picture. This demands us to embrace change and think beyond the conventional wisdom while retaining our respect for it. Creating the Productive Workplace shows how we need to balance the needs of people and the ever-increasing enabling technologies but also to take advantage of the healing powers of Nature and let them be part of environmental design. This book aims to lead to more human-centred ways of designing the built environment with deeper meaning and achieve healthier and more creative, as well as more productive places to work.
Download or read book CIO written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office written by J. Kent Crawford and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office explores the SPO's potential to transform an enterprise by making the most of people within an organization. This volume provides an exhaustive review of topics such as the hiring, retention, measurement, training, and professional development of knowledge workers in project management
Download or read book Sustainable Design of Research Laboratories written by KlingStubbins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture, Sustainable Design A comprehensive book on the sustainable design of research laboratories Today's research laboratories are complex and difficult building types to design, and making them sustainable adds more obstacles. Written by members of the well-known firm KlingStubbins, under the guidance of its Directors of Laboratory Planning, Engineering, and Sustainability, Sustainable Design of Research Laboratories represents a multidisciplinary approach to addressing these challenges. With the needs of architects, engineers, construction professionals, and facility owners in mind, this book provides a road map for sustainable planning, design, construction, and operations. The book is valuable both to experienced laboratory designers seeking guidance on sustainable strategies, as well as professionals versed in sustainable design who want insight into laboratory applications. With content rich in guidance on performance strategies, even the most technically oriented reader will find valuable lessons inside. This book: Focuses on the links between best sustainable practices and the specific needs of research laboratories Provides a number of case studies of the best contemporary sustainably designed labs, with a focus on architecture and engineering Explores the challenges in applying rating systems, including LEED, to laboratory buildings Examines unique considerations of sustainable approaches in leased and renovated laboratories Includes contributions by experts on approaches to integrated design, site design, programming, and commissioning This important book shows how theoretical ideas can be applied to real-life laboratory projects to create healthier and more efficient research environments.
Download or read book Facilities Change Management written by Edward Finch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern organisations are subject to continual change - technologies evolve, organisational structures are modified, people and underlying cultures are transformed. Yet the facilities that organisations occupy are static and can impede the changes that are essential to organisational survival. The response to change in terms of property and support services is often too little too late - leading to facilities that do not support organisational reality. The facilities management team is thus constantly challenged to bridge the gap between what an organisation has and what it needs. Facilities Change Management is a practical evaluation of the management of change for facilities managers and related professions. It considers: the forces of change affecting facilities decisions the obstacles to change at a resource level and human level the effective implementation of change the human aspect of change Each of these is considered in relation to modern facilities management issues. The discussion will enable practising facilities managers, project managers, surveyors, service providers and architects to understand, engage with and manage facilities change effectively at a strategic level. Through real-life case studies it demonstrates the complexities of change and hidden elements of change that may undermine carefully planned projects.
Download or read book Environmental Psychology and Human Well Being written by Ann Sloan Devlin and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Psychology and Human Well-Being: Effects of Built and Natural Settings provides a better understanding of the way in which mental and physical well-being is affected by physical environments, along with insights into how the design of these environments might be improved to support better health outcomes. The book reviews the history of the field, discusses theoretical constructs in guiding research and design, and provides an up-to-date survey of research findings. Core psychological constructs, such as personal space, territoriality, privacy, resilience, stress, and more are integrated into each environment covered. - Provides research-based insight into how an environment can impact mental and physical health and well-being - Integrates core psychological constructs, such as coping, place attachment, social support, and perceived control into each environment discussed - Includes discussion of Kaplan's Attention Restoration Theory and Ulrich's Stress Reduction Theory - Covers educational settings, workplace settings, environments for active living, housing for the elderly, natural settings, correctional facilities, and more
Download or read book Metaheuristic Algorithms in Industry 4 0 written by Pritesh Shah and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to increasing industry 4.0 practices, massive industrial process data is now available for researchers for modelling and optimization. Artificial Intelligence methods can be applied to the ever-increasing process data to achieve robust control against foreseen and unforeseen system fluctuations. Smart computing techniques, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, for example, will be inseparable from the highly automated factories of tomorrow. Effective cybersecurity will be a must for all Internet of Things (IoT) enabled work and office spaces. This book addresses metaheuristics in all aspects of Industry 4.0. It covers metaheuristic applications in IoT, cyber physical systems, control systems, smart computing, artificial intelligence, sensor networks, robotics, cybersecurity, smart factory, predictive analytics and more. Key features: Includes industrial case studies. Includes chapters on cyber physical systems, machine learning, deep learning, cybersecurity, robotics, smart manufacturing and predictive analytics. surveys current trends and challenges in metaheuristics and industry 4.0. Metaheuristic Algorithms in Industry 4.0 provides a guiding light to engineers, researchers, students, faculty and other professionals engaged in exploring and implementing industry 4.0 solutions in various systems and processes.
Download or read book GRASPED Matrix of Mastery written by Steven Brough and published by GRASPED Digital. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "GRASPED Matrix of Mastery" explores the Eisenhower Method's application for both personal and professional growth. It details how this prioritization framework can revolutionize time management, decision-making, and strategic planning. The book dives deep into real-world applications, offering readers a structured approach to balancing urgent and important tasks to achieve their goals. The book's USP lies in its specialized focus on the Eisenhower Matrix, setting it apart from general self-help or business strategy guides. It provides a unique blend of historical strategy and modern application, tailored for individuals seeking a pragmatic approach to enhance productivity and personal fulfillment. The introduction sets the stage for a transformative journey, inviting readers to redefine success through the lens of priority management. It positions the Eisenhower Method not just as a tool for efficiency but as a philosophy for mindful and purposeful living.
