The triple-pillar mode, based on Dave Ulrich‘s role model, has now become widely accepted as an HR business model, particularly in large companies. It consists of three core areas: the HR Busi-ness Partner, the Centre of Expertise, and the HR Service Centre.
Read More...
Analytics Articles
This new book provides guidance to everyone experiencing the “digital overload” that comes from being always on and subject to the increasingly rapid pace of change
Read More...
Celebrating the data diversity
Leesman Index: latest results & decoding the high performance workplace.
The architecture of CRE big data
A new model shows the scope, complexity and connectivity of corporate real estate and facilities activity. Looking at the big picture could help to drive integration.
The complex relationship between economic activity and the modern office
The complex and ever changing relationship between economic activity, productivity and the functioning of the modern office.
Neuroscience at work: the next source of competitive advantage
Office workers are overwhelmed by distractions, due mainly to a lack of understanding of how to manage attention. As a result, organisations are turning to branches of knowledge not typically associated with the office.
Design Articles
Paul Carder reviews John Ingham’s new book The Social Organization
Read More...
Implementing flexible working in Latin America
The typical Latin American office has tended to follow the traditional US ‘bullpen’ office layout. But all that is changing as the region looks increasingly at the European flexible working model
The implications of the new workplace for leadership
There is still little research on the relationship between leadership and the office environment. One of the first studies examines how the office environment influences employees’ perception of management.
Long distance commuting in the UAE
In Dubai, there are no suburban dinosaurs so we need to look at the nature of workplace and transportation in the Middle east and the ways in which the region might cope should the current pace of development continue.
Organisations are beginning to lose patience with IT and property directors
Following a decade of declining productivity, have business leaders nally lost patience with their organisation’s iT and Property Directors?
Services Articles
The Meeting of the Minds Annual Summit always convenes an extraordinary, cross-sector group of urban leaders to discuss the future of sustainability, technology, and equity in cities. The event convenes in Sacramento, California, this year, from November 27-29, and I want to pass along this message…
Read More...
Creating a workplace ecosystem: anticipating and managing unprecedented change
Organisations must blend the diverse skills and knowledge of FM, HR, IT, and Finance professionals to produce a complex ecosystem capable of sustained performance
Agile working? This is Frank’s world and the rest of us just live in it
While there is a great deal of talk about agile working right now, the underlying principles are not new but were forged at least 25 years ago
Managing the intersecting worlds of work on a global scale
The converging worlds of technology, corporate real estate, of ce design, human resources and facilities management are an inevitable and solution driven response to the growth of agile working practices.
