New Ways of Working Network

The discussion offers a major shift in thinking about "workplace-making". Good practice today aligns place and IT supports with the activities of those who do the work, as that work is now done. This is acceptable in many, if not most, circumstances. However, sometimes there is a need for, and an opportunity to create a “transformative workplace”, one that creates new supports for work as an intimate part of the redesign, or creation of new work practices.

Many in the workplace business think that getting involved with reinventing and creating business processes is a noble ambition but beyond their purview. This transformation is, nonetheless, something that enterprises (most often at a business unit level) sometime need to do. Whether or not our colleagues step out of their traditional bounds and join others in this task is not the issue; the critical point is that enterprises need to do it.