Transforming IT at Steelcase: An Agile Case Study
Steelcase is in the midst of transforming its information technology group. This shift in culture, process and place has elicited learnings that can be applied within and outside of IT.
Fast Forward
In another 10 years, your current office will seem as quaint as a rotary phone on the kitchen wall. By carefully analyzing the signals of change that surround us today, Steelcase researchers formulated seven fascinating scenarios for how and where work might occur just one decade from today. Thrilling or sobering, they’re sure to stimulate a point of view about a future that will be very different from what we’re experiencing today.
It’s Not Everyday You Hear a Teacher Yell for Joy
Steelcase Education just launched the fifth cycle of its Active Learning Center Grant. Each year, up to 16 schools receive new furniture and teacher training. The schools also commit to doing research they share with the growing active learning community. In this podcast, hear real stories about changes happening in classrooms that serve very different student populations.
Human Nature
Meet the person behind hand selecting millions of square feet of wood veneer each year for Steelcase customers.
Active Learning Center Grant Launches Fifth Cycle
The Active Learning Center Grant from Steelcase Education is launching its fifth cycle to identify educators at the leading edge of active learning pedagogies.
Sensor Data Aids in $1 Million Redesign Decision
With their staff nearly doubling in less than five years, One Workplace’s Santa Clara showroom and work environment was starting to feel cramped. Faced with a renovation that could cost over $1 million, they enlisted Steelcase’s Workplace Advisor to help them make a data-driven decision about how they could best use their space. Some of the results are surprising.
SILQ Talks: Wood without Trees
Forests take hundreds of years to grow. Flax takes 100 days. Lingrove CEO Joe Luttwak joined SILQ Talks to share his breakthrough in material science. Lingrove is a materials and design firm focused on plant based fibers and resins — creating a material that looks like wood, but is stronger, lighter and more moldable. SILQ Talks celebrate boundary-pushing ideas inspired by the innovative material, shape and construction of the SILQ chair. Watch past episodes.
Creating In and Outside the Box
HOK designers get creative, get messy and design their own IRYS Pods.
How Beth Comstock Survived the ‘F’ Word in Business
Beth Comstock, former GE Vice Chair and CMO, tells us how to thrive in the midst of failure, the “F” word in business. The self-described “changemaker in chief” shares stories from her book Imagine It Forward, how she gets her crazy ideas and what trends she’s watching right now.
Four Ways to Weave Nature into the Workplace
How to embrace biophilic design to create a rejuvenating environment for employees.
Classroom Revamp
Discover how four Active Learning Center Grant recipients embrace a more collaborative approach to education by transforming their space.
Introducing the west elm Work Collection
This initial suite of products from west elm and Steelcase supports the changing preferences of people at work.
The Business Value of Joy
Who do you serve and what does delight look like for them? Menlo Innovations CEO and co-founder Richard Sheridan says these are the questions that have helped his team create an agile place to work filled with joy. Listen to discover the business value of joy. Interested in agile? Explore Transforming IT at Steelcase: An Agile Case Study.
Building the Classroom of the Future
How one university is using Steelcase Education classrooms to prepare students for a rapidly changing world.