Where should the “Director of Work” fit into large organisations?
Our next study, through our Occupiers Journal groups of ‘end users’ around the world, will focus on this very subject. The foundations built from our “Raising The Bar” study, sponsored by the RICS,...
View ArticleWorkplace is discipline; see one, do one, teach one
We cannot always ‘just do it’, like the Nike adverts suggest. For the future, we also need to teach. This point is perhaps missed in the 150th post on workessence, a reflection by Neil Usher – see more...
View ArticlePLACEMAKER: how do we inter-connect corporate spaces and public spaces?
By Paul Carder: @paulcarder & @WorkAndPlace This article caught my imagination: http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/06/who-really-owns-public-spaces/373612/ Mid-way through it says, “The AIA New...
View ArticlePLACEMAKER: a notional case study: Wallace & Sprocket LLP
Development of a teaching ‘case study': Wallace&Sprocket LLP (Note: it would be great to receive your feedback – and perhaps, somewhere out there, real-life examples which are similar to this...
View ArticleTowards the Corporate Placemaker in 2016
by @paulcarder I have been studying and thinking about this concept of the Corporate Placemaker for some time now. I trace it back to our work on Raising The Bar, a global study for the RICS which,...
View ArticleHR > Finance > CRE > FM
by @paulcarder This is a simple post. It is intended to cause a good-natured argument amongst professionals. I’m more interested in how things are achieved, by whom, than perhaps by the end result....
View ArticleThe (not far) Away Day (part 1)
by @paulcarder Three managers walk into the bar [always a good place to start]. They all have gender-neutral names, so I’ll leave you to work out whether they may be male or female. Not that it matters...
View ArticleThe (not far) Away Day (part 2)
by @paulcarder (with contributions from @therealsulim) If you have read the story so far, in Part 1, three managers met at the bar of a corporate training centre. Frankie (from HR), Sam (from FM –...
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