I was reading a great article from The Verge on the death of the QWERTY keyboard in modern smartphones. In there they have the quote: I wasn’t totally buying that the world abandoned the idea of physical keyboards overnight. It seemed more likely to me that the cellular industry never gave them a choice. Whether…
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Does greater #workplace collaboration mean greater #cre space requirements?
I’ve heard some comments recently about what impact greater workplace collaborative design would have on total square footage required in a building. The theory goes that by introducing greater collaborative spaces means that you have to have greater total space. This is premised on the theory that employees are hesitant to give up their dedicated…
Why global #workplace standards will never take off.
In theory Global Workplace standards make sense for large organizations. You create a consistent real estate product that can be delivered quickly and efficiently. You can negotiate furniture contracts in advance and commit to certain volumes to lower prices further. Seems simple. Reality shows that exceptions begin to grow quickly. First the headquarters gets its…
Information overload managed by #tech. My personal online information management setup.
There is a lot of data out there in the world and I enjoy collecting and reading as much of it as I can. Here’s my setup, I would love to know yours so that I can add to my collection of tools: Feedly 100+ RSS feeds primarily from blogs. Grouped by category (technology, CRE,…
#patents are the biggest threat to #cre #tech innovation.
Patent litigation is one of the main ways that new technologies and companies are kept from becoming new forces. Search “patent litigation” on Google News and you get a ton of returns from IBM suing Twitter to Google/Samsung being sued by a consortium that bought Nortel’s patents two years ago. It’s scary. The CRE industry…
Staged headshots and trying too hard.
While doing my daily news review and update I came across a phenomenal headshot on LinkedIn*. It’s a bright, happy, smiling, well dressed gentleman at a desk. In the foreground we see glasses and a 1″ binder of the type that no one has used in 10 years with what looks to be a handful…
When IT gets in the way of productivity, workarounds will be used.
I work from home. Most days it’s a blessing. Other days it can present challenges. One of the main challenges is accessing files on the corporate drives when I must connect to VPN and hope for the best. VPN is a great technology for many things. However, when deployed wrong it makes life slower. Whenever…
Data analysis to your customers’ benefit.
One of the great things about the new data age is that every level of the retail/supply chain has vast amounts of information about the link above them. Retailers know all about their customers, distributors know all about the retailers, manufacturers know all about the distributors. This creates a very interesting dynamic for inter-supply chain…
#UX is about making your #tech something people will actually use.
Technology is great. However, many fabulous advancements go completely unutilized and die early deaths because no one can figure out how to use them (I’m looking at you Google Wave). User Experience (UX) or Industrial Design (ID) are the philosophies of taking the geeky, nerdy, specialist advancement and making it something that someone will actually…
#workplace of the #future is a misnomer – it is already here.
By now, most of the world has heard of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) IT policies. The next level of this will be BYOO CRE policies – Bring Your Own Office. Just as organizations often provide cost coverage for employees to have their own work phone, it likely won’t be uncommon for organizations to provide…