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Inside Innovation
How human-centered design propels learning and growth
How human-centered design propels learning and growth
With global competition and disruption coming from all sides, it’s clear the world is changing, and quickly. It’s also clear organizations need to embrace a growth mindset to fuel innovation by becoming more agile, encourage constant and continuous learning and rapidly adapt to new possibilities.
STEELCASE LEARNING AND INNOVATION CENTER (LINC) IN MUNICH
STEELCASE LEARNING AND INNOVATION CENTER (LINC) IN MUNICH
An inspiring and high-performing space, the LINC is designed with an understanding of how learning, creativity and innovation interconnect and demonstrates how the habitats where people work can activate a culture shift by fostering a new set of habits.
Wellbeing: A Bottom Line Issue
How Feeling Good at Work Drives Business Performance
How Feeling Good at Work Drives Business Performance
When IBM asked CEOs around the world to identify the most important leadership traits needed today, their answer was resounding: collaborative, communicative, creative and flexible.
But here’s the new dilemma, these traits require leadership skills, metrics and mindsets that are different from what many business leaders have learned in the past.
Fostering creativity and innovation requires a new strategy that might take some business leaders by surprise—a rigorous focus on organizational and employee wellbeing. “The most successful organizations are now turning their attention to employee wellbeing as a way to gain emotional, financial and competitive advantage,” notes Tom Rath, Gallup’s leader of workplace research and co-author of the bestselling book “Wellbeing.”
Learn more about how feeling good at work drives business performance
The Creative Shift
How Place + Technology + People Can Help Solve 21st Century Problems
How Place + Technology + People Can Help Solve 21st Century Problems
Contrary to popular myth, creativity isn’t about a “Eureka!” moment that happens among truly brilliant people. Creative work is a process in which everyone can engage, if the conditions are right.
Yet, despite the desire to be more creative at work, the majority of people don’t believe they’re living up to their creative potential. The solution is finding the right balance between convergent and divergent thinking, and having the right range of spaces and technology to support all the diverse stages of creative work.
“The way to support people is to provide the ability to move between individual time and collaborative time, having that rhythm between coming together to think about a problem and then going away to let those ideas gestate,” says Donna Flynn,vice president of WorkSpace Futures at Steelcase.