Change and Adaptation

The corporate structure constantly changes, as it must adapt itself to fluctuating business environment in order to survive and grow. The office technology also changes continually, making itself susceptible to the passage of time. These changes, very rapid in recent years, naturally force the workplace to be adaptable and flexible in terms of renewal.


 
Andersen Consulting, Paris, FRANCE
ADAPTATION
It is now several years since innovative and flexible office strategies, such as the universal plan and non-territorial office were introduced. How effectively have they been functioning? What influences have they yielded to? In this issue, we revisit some of the offices and trace the changes they have undergone.
 
digital
Embracing New Workstyles
 
Ameritech
Organizational Change Drives Office Evolution
TRANCEPLANT
Subordinating office design to how the organization is structured and the ways in which information is shared is a lesson Canon learned from Digital's "Office of the Future" project. For Canon, it has resulted in a more collaborative workforce.
 
Canon Center Rissne
Leaning By Example - A Seed for Innovation

INTEGRATION
The building at 55 avenue George V in Paris is the headquarters for West Europe management team of Andersen Consulting, a worldwide consulting firm, was renovated as a "virtual office" to support various activities of groups such as consultants, staffs and clients, by integrating technologies, services and facilities.
 
Andersen Consulting / Paris, FRANCE
Trend-setting Advanced User Support
Adaptable Work-Settings
Akihiro Kishimoto / Institute of Office Systems, KOKUYO Co., Ltd.

To achieve the flexibility to deal with organizational and technological changes-this has been one of the challenges since the birth of the modern office. It is still as important a challenge as before, but the conditions under which the challenge is to be met are different and the methods available are also different. The diversification of workstyle has made it possible to blur the relationship among organization, work and space. The inconveniences brought about by the accelerating diversification of needs can be compensated for with the freedom gained by the disappearance of physical limitations through virtualization. From this perspective, the following article will analyze the adaptability of office interior.

Future Office

  
FUTURE OFFICE, the innovator of new workstyles, is a unique firm which introduces new trends of working environments suitable to the Information Age and develops concepts and products which match those trends. FUTURE OFFICE aims to assist its clients' efforts to restructure their working environments so as to make them more compliant with the needs of the times by offering office furniture which is ergonomically and functionally superior. This article illustrates it as reflected in the designs of FUTURE OFFICE concepts and products.
 
product of Future Office "4-WORK"

Frances Duffy, DEGW

  

Duffy, a foremost leader in the field of office design, has just published The New Office, which is full of insights into new workstyles and office environments. In this interview, he talks about the direction of future workplace.