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Workplace and property firms must wake up to the new era of networked businesses

Workplace Insight

Networks are replacing production processes. Tom Cheesewright recently wrote : “organisations are increasingly structured as networks of smaller components” and that the “most extreme example of a networked organisation is one composed entirely of freelancers. Firms will be permeable and fluid.

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How Will We View Today’s Transformation Of The Workplace In Twenty Years?

All Work

As offices began to develop adjacent to manufacturing facilities and storefronts in the mid-to-late 1800s, they were designed to bring the bosses into close proximity with their top employees and the clerks who kept the books and managed the logistics of the business. This is a seismic shift in the conceptualization of the workplace.

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Practical Strategies To Design For The Planet

All Work

Mycelium can be grown in containers that help manufacturers create specific shapes — used as acoustic panels and even flooring. Fundamentally it ensures all the systems can communicate and work with each other and with the base building systems and network. One example is mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms.

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Upending The Traditional Workplace Delivery Model: Enabling Real Flexibility

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Often an event in the business cycle—most likely a lease expiration or other real estate deadline—will create the demand to better understand the organization’s physical needs. This first step of starting with a real estate broker may often be the first of many decisions made through an arduous request for proposal process.

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Coopetition: how to grow your business by partnering with a competitor

Ruby

It can… boost your business lower your costs increase your organizational resources expand your network and make your customers’ or clients’ lives easier. The book details these types of partnerships between businesses in a variety of sectors, from car manufacturers to software and hardware designers. It can even be kinda, sorta… fun.

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Upending The Traditional Workplace Delivery Model: Enabling Real Flexibility

All Work

Often an event in the business cycle—most likely a lease expiration or other real estate deadline—will create the demand to better understand the organization’s physical needs. Furniture manufacturers are already moving to a model of easily movable furniture components. Furniture Systems.

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Meet the 2022 Women of Influence

Success

In 2017, Rhimes shifted the entertainment industry’s business model when she left network television and brokered an unprecedented agreement for Shondaland to produce streaming content exclusively in partnership with Netflix. Her hard work paid off, as Herd became the youngest self-made female billionaire in 2021. Elena Cardone.