Topic: Culture

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.

The co-founders of Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, a well-known North Carolina-based furniture design and manufacturing company, explain how their company’s purpose, “Comfort for all,” drives everything they do.

Today, some people shop for employers like they do for consumer products. It’s not just the type of work, salary or a company’s prestige that influence decision making. People are looking for a sense of purpose at work.

Steelcase’s newest Learning and Innovation Center in Munich gives employees and visitors a firsthand view of how Steelcase is using space to learn, innovate and grow.

This self-described serial entrepreneur says no matter how big enterprises become, they need to think like a startup if they want to continue to grow.

People know what they don’t want at work—a sea of bland, uniform spaces where ideas go to die.

A decade or so ago, it was a prediction that was easily ignored. Now the trend toward more creative work is an idea whose time has come, and workplaces need to move forward, too. See how Steelcase and technology leader Microsoft have combined efforts to envision a workplace that accelerates the shift to creative work by supporting all the conditions it needs to thrive.

The Steelcase Learning and Innovation Center in Munich sets a new tone and communicates a new set of cultural values to everyone who works there.

What does it take to stay entrepreneurially innovative in a big company? Turnstone research uncovered five conditions that intrapreneurs say they need to be creative and engaged, no matter how big their company has become.