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| Spaces for Organically Integrating the Office and the Field |
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| The core process of many a business involves people from numerous sub-processes whose workplaces are often scattered across campuses or even half a world away. Any means to link them ought strengthen teamwork. In this issue, we look at “fusion” workplaces?the ultimate in anti-siloing, they are designed to facilitate interaction by bringing not just the usual office functions together, but also incorporating the field or factory floor. |
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| Creative Space Connects Designers and Customers |
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| “Fashion-forward” footwear designer Topline Corporation’s business success is determined by its ability to develop enticing products. To draw its designers and customers closer together, the company built a showroom smack in the middle of the design studio in its new headquarters. |
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| Topline / Bellevue, Washington, USA |
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| Human Resources and Innovation Hubs Drive Organization’s Renewal |
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| GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the world’s second-largest pharmaceuticals company, announced that it wanted to double growth in its Consumer Healthcare business over five years. To help, it installed new work spaces?“innovation hubs”? for brand-centered cross-functional teams. |
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| GlaxoSmithKline / Parsippany, New Jersey, USA |
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| Assemblers and Engineers Come Together |
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| Assembly-floor workers and computer-bound engineers generally occupy totally separate worlds. And so it was at Boeing’s Renton site?until leadership initiative and an enormous space co-located them in an innovative project to bridge the great divide. The result? A dramatic rise in efficiency. |
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| Boeing / Renton, Washington, USA |
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| The Topline and Boeing offices featured in this issue were designed by NBBJ Architects. They and other NBBJ projects we’ve covered previously, such as its makeover at Reebok, have impressed us as salient examples of workplace creation linked closely to organizational reform. We thought we’d take a closer look NBBJ’s approach to workplace design, its own workplaces, and some projects showcasing how NBBJ has helped advance workplace innovation through office design. |
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