Photos du journal. New WorkPlace / Office Trends @ Scarlet Opus Trends Blog. A while back I met Stuart Martin of Walker and Martin when I was presenting a trend seminar at one of Steelcase’s fab events at their London WorkLife space.
Afterwards Stuart sent me designs for a really exciting corporate workplace concept and he has kindly granted permission for me to share the project with you today. WaM is an award-winning architecture & design practice that encourages the exchange of ideas with other disciplines, artists and people interested in the built environment. Known for their interesting and innovative design solutions they have worked on projects for the likes of Skype (pictured below), AVIS, Thomas Cook and BBC Wales as well as being invited to produce a scheme to reinvent the offices of Ministry of Sound in London.
How to see into the future of your business. Advantages & Disadvantages of Matrix Organizational Structures in Business Organizations. Google Grows Up: A Necessary Evil? - Joshua Gans. By Joshua Gans | 11:52 AM March 19, 2012 James Whittaker left Google and wrote about it.
Long story short: Google came under “new” management (which was actually really old management returning) and started focusing on its core products rather than being “all about the technology.” The staff — and this is surely not a shock — don’t much like it. As Whittaker wrote, The days of old Google hiring smart people and empowering them to invent the future was gone. Stop Talking About Social and Do It - Nilofer Merchant. “Leadership” has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government.
“The Value Chain” has changed when the customer is no longer just the “buyer” but also a co-creator. “Human Resources” have changed when most of the people who create value for your organization are neither hired nor paid by you. “Competition” has changed when individuals can create value through a centralized network of resources: for example, designing a product from anywhere, producing it through a 3D factory, financing it through community and distribution from anywhere to anywhere.
Yet our business models have not changed to keep pace with these shifts. This five-part series has shared case studies and examples of how the social era affects all areas of the business model: how we create, deliver, and capture value. Why Porter's Model No Longer Works - Nilofer Merchant. Imagine that you wanted a new home theater system.
But instead of spending hours in Best Buy or on Amazon comparing configurations and assembling the parts you needed, you could signal what you wanted and a company would create it for you. You might simply Pinterest the elements you liked, including information about your space or noise limitations (“One-bedroom apartment on busy street in New York,” or “suburban space that needs stuff protected from little kids”), and then have a retailer give you a personalized, optimal configuration.
Strategy Essentials You Ignore at Your Peril - Joan Magretta. By Joan Magretta | 10:59 AM December 22, 2011.
Five Questions That Should Shape Any Change Program - Scott Keller and Colin Price. By Scott Keller and Colin Price | 11:48 AM December 2, 2011 Most organizations will shrink or disappear in the long term: only a third of excellent companies remain excellent for decades, and when organizations try to transform themselves, even fewer succeed.
But as economic, political, social, and technological change continue to accelerate, and competitive pressure grows more intense, leaders can’t afford those odds. The likeliest way to overcome them, we found as we wrote Beyond Performance, is to address the underlying problem: organizations that focus too much on short-term financial performance, at the expense of organizational health, are those that most typically need transformational change; but, unfortunately, the change programs they create are similarly shortsighted.
Change programs that succeed, we’ve seen, put an equal emphasis on both performance and health in answering five basic questions that should shape any change program. Five Common Strategy Mistakes - Joan Magretta. By Joan Magretta | 1:15 PM December 8, 2011 I just finished a two-year project looking at Michael Porter’s most important insights for managers.
Connecting the dots between his classic frameworks (the five forces, for example) and his latest thinking (the five tests of strategy) gave me a new understanding of the most common mistakes that can derail a company’s strategy. 5 ways a business plan can come back to bite you. We've all heard the expression, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
" And few people disagree on the importance of a business plan. But too many business plans risk turning against their authors (and often do) because of one or more of these potentially fatal flaws: 1. Building 2012 Sales Projections in Uncertain Times. Last Updated Oct 17, 2011 6:17 PM EDT It's almost that time of year -- time for the annual "Battle Royale" of sales forecasting and planning for next year.
It is usually linked to that other cherished event, annual budgeting. I have architected, led, and suffered through these processes for 25 years of my career. The Cure for the Not-for-Profit Crisis. What Steve Jobs Taught Me About Growth - Nilofer Merchant. By Nilofer Merchant | 1:46 PM September 22, 2011 This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line.
Finding that first market — a few customers willing to pay for your early product — is hard enough. But there’s one thing that may be even harder. And that’s finding the second market. Especially because companies are often so focused on protecting what they already have. In 1996 when Steve Jobs returned to Apple, I was in charge of an industry-recognized channel program for the company that was responsible for growing a $2M business to $180M business in 18 months. So, as I went into the full business review, it never occurred to me that Jobs wouldn’t appreciate the channel program. The Three Questions That Lead to Profitable Growth - Chris Zook. By Chris Zook | 11:40 AM September 27, 2011 This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line. Self-awareness is not always pretty.
4 Signs You’ve Got a Bad Strategy. Last Updated Jul 7, 2011 10:21 AM EDT Contrary to what you may think, bad bosses are not the biggest problem facing business today (numerous national surveys show workers are largely satisfied with their supervisor). The more serious threat-- one that can derail your career, as well as the company--is bad strategy. In the new book, Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters, author Richard Rumelt, a professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management and well-known management consultant, says a strong corporate strategy is razor sharp and cuts through corporate doubletalk and jargon. He notes: "good strategy is coherent action backed up by argument, an effective mixture of thought and action with a basic underlying structure I call the kernel. 5 Reasons to Bootstrap Your Startup. Last Updated Jun 4, 2011 9:02 AM EDT Swagbucks is an online rewards destination where users earn virtual currency redeemable for real-life rewards for performing the everyday actions they already take online - like searching the web, playing games, shopping, watching videos, etc.
The Los Angeles-based company, which has 3.5 million registered users, does over $10 million in annual revenue and COO Scott Dudelson is predicting close to $20 million by the end of this year. Why American Management Rules the World - Nicholas Bloom, Rebecca Homkes, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen - The Conversation. Building a Shared Mental Model to Rekindle Collaboration - Jason Green - The Conversation.
By Jason Green | 8:01 AM June 14, 2011. Radical Change Is for Losers. The ‘Tom Sawyer’ Strategy: How to Get Free Labor. Last Updated Jun 7, 2011 12:29 PM EDT. Wanted: Adoptive Parents for Orphaned Ideas.