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Impact on the workplace

The workplace is constantly evolving, and that’s a good thing. It means that organizations today are behaving in non-classical ways, taking on different reporting and team structures. Assets drive competition, and assets can be tangible or intangible. Once we accept this, we seek out new theories of management and new tools for creating agile workplaces. Our ever more global environment is shaping the world in which we work, but more than that, it is shaping the evolution of business through its influence on the workplace.

In the insight page we attempt to shift gears between issues that are fuelling the changes in the workplace and the business of business.

Professional Researches
The research page is a forum intended to be a conversation that will provide thoughtful and through vision of innovation in leveraging Organizational Intelligence to assist in creating an Agile Workplace. Learn more

People Behind the Forum
Shiftingears is a not for profit research group, pioneering studies into the workplace through the combined experiences of its members- some of them contributors, who in their individual professions have been lead to conclude that there are many influences that affect the workplace - the physical facility. Learn more

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EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS

Business of Facility

Effective Workplace services and settings that are extensions and active components of the work process can be created by tracking or influencing the individual strategies that are developed by management and understand how these can be applied to the facility and assist the organization to achieve an agile workplace - facility.

Some of the emerging proactive strategies for the Workplace based on our research and studies indicate as follows:

Operational flexibility
Employee Recruitment and Retention
Resilience - Business Continuity
Sustainibility
Workplace Scalability
Enhanced Productivity
Converting Capital to Operational Cost

Abstract

Facilities have been traditionally viewed as a sink hole for revenues that should be rightly assigned to the Core business.

This commonly held opinion will change as work and workplace has been redefined today due to the evolution of innovation, the rise of human capitalization, the new focus on what creative people want, the emerging definition of workplace agility, how the concept of “green” work spaces and practices impact employee retention and recruitment, and the challenges and opportunities of the age of real-time connectivity has delivered to our doorstep.

Thus workplace agility has emerged as the single highest priority that underpins workplace services and infrastructure in the new business environment of the Knowledge economy.

What is required to meet this challenge is more than an adaptable work environment and user-controlled applications, but a workplace that is constantly transforming, adjusting and responding to enhanced organizational learning and shifts in the requirements of customer experience- expectations and swings in the volatile marketplace.

Drake assists organizations in achieving heightened productivity, performance and profit standards through the effective use of people and the application of proprietary technologies to help match workforce levels to workload.

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AGILE WORKPLACES

Core Competency

Workplace agility has emerged as the single highest priority that underpins workplace services and infrastructure in the new business environment of the Knowledge Economy.

Effective solutions to meet the challenges the Business of Facility must be seen in the light of the influences that impact the Facility during the life line of an evolving organization.

There are many factors that impact People, Process and Technology which are in essence the DNA of the Workplace.

There is also an undeniable link between workplace and work processes and workplace management - Transformation of operating infrastructure leading to strategic growth through applied strategic planning. “the process by which the guiding members of an organization envision its future and develop the necessary procedures and operations to achieve that future” Read More...