Culture Shift
A case study that looks at how space can transform culture and enable agility.
A Day in the Life of an Agile Team
Follow Kim and her team in their year-old space, purposefully designed to foster a more agile culture by helping them move faster, test and execute on new ideas, and get closer to their customers.
Does Your Work Matter?
Adam Grant, author and host of TED’s WorkLife podcast, shares what he’s learning about how to make work not suck.” Teaser alert: “If you want to build trust, you actually want to de-fun. Instead of doing something simple and lighthearted, you actually work with a group of people to solve hard problems that matter.”
How Business Decisions Impact the Environment
What very important question comes up again and again in the Steelcase boardroom? Steelcase CEO Jim Keane has the answer. He also shares the story behind Steelcase’s ongoing commitment to sustainability including reduced water and energy use and investments in the infrastructure needed to generate clean energy.
Redesigning the Healthcare Experience
Stacey Chang, executive director of the Design Institute for Health at Dell Medical School, discusses redesigning healthcare to improve the experience for patients and providers.
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.
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.
How Is Our Work Experience Changing?
Dr. Ron Friedman explains what’s changed since his book “The Best Place to Work” came out four years ago in the second part of our Q+A.
The Secret to a Happy Workplace: Ron Friedman Q+A
Dr. Ron Friedman, social psychologist and author, tells us the number one myth when it comes to creating a great employee experience.
Accelerating Innovation
Over the past decade, India and China have evolved from outsourcing support nodes to leading global innovation hubs. With speed and agility never seen before, they have advanced their capabilities to position themselves as innovation leaders.
How to Make Work Not Suck with Adam Grant
Organizational psychologist Adam Grant shares why team building activities don’t work, why the corner office sends a bad signal and why procrastination can be a key ingredient to creativity. 360 Magazine Editor Chris Congdon hosts this revealing conversation about how to build trust and the ongoing search for purpose at work.
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.