Corporate Agility

To thrive in the global economy, companies need a whole new business model--one that enables them to embrace new technology, understand the ever-changing workforce and rethink the way they structure work environments.Filled with case studies of companies and interviews with their top executives, Corporate Agility shares the results of a groundbreaking five-year research project and the forward-thinking strategies that have grown out of it. It is a blueprint for every company to stay profitable and sustainable for years to come.

Charles Grantham (Prescott, AZ) and Jim Ware (Berkeley, CA) are the founders of the Work Design Collaborative and the Future of Work program, whose members include Boeing, Accenture, and Intel. They have been featured in Fast Company and Business Week. Cory Williamson (Croton-on-Hudson, NY) is an author and talent agent.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
More Corporate Agility, Less Corporate Real Estate	p. 5
Putting Workplace Strategies in Place	p. 6
Jones Lang LaSalle	p. 10
Sprint Nextel	p. 16
Hewlett-Packard	p. 19
The Three Major Business Challenges: Costs, Labor, and Innovation	p. 27
Reducing Fixed Operating Costs	p. 31
Reducing the Corporate Real Estate Footprint	p. 33
Additional Means of CRE Cost Reduction	p. 54
Reconfiguring CRE	p. 58
Green Building	p. 68
Choosing a Location	p. 75
Outsourcing Labor Costs	p. 77
Spherion Contingent Workforce Case Study	p. 79
Attracting and Retaining Human Talent	p. 87
Global Demographic Trends	p. 87
Educational Trends	p. 91
Knowledge Management	p. 93
Attraction and Retention of Labor	p. 96
Meaningful Work	p. 104
Innovation and Survival	p. 109
Technology and Innovation	p. 111
Company Culture and innovation	p. 116
Innovation and the Workplace	p. 120
Under Construction	p. 124
Innovation and the Workforce	p. 126
Planting the Seeds of Innovation	p. 127
The Virtual Workforce	p. 129
The History of Work	p. 129
The Distributed Workforce	p. 134
Resistance to the Distributed Workforce	p. 142
Assessment	p. 153
Productivity	p. 157
Offices Without Walls	p. 161
The Workplace of the Future	p. 161
Workplace Strategy	p. 175
The Live/Work Project	p. 181
Third Places	p. 187
Business Community Centers	p. 189
The Well-Designed Workplace	p. 193
The Seven Hallmarks of the Productive Workplace	p. 201
The Seven Hallmarks Exemplified	p. 207
IA Interior Architects	p. 213
Collaborative Strategic Management	p. 219
A Systems Approach	p. 220
What Does Collaborative Strategic Management Look Like?	p. 222
The Workplace/Workforce Transformation Program	p. 229
Wrapping It All Up	p. 238
Achieving Corporate Agility	p. 239
Why Now? Change Is More Dramatic Than Ever	p. 240
Why Now? Because the Clock Is Already Ticking	p. 242
Why Now? Technology Is Reshaping Our Work World	p. 243
Leadership and Strategy	p. 244
Questions You Should Be Asking	p. 246
Questions for an Agile Organization	p. 247
Proceeding to Answer the Questions	p. 248
A New Way of Looking at Organizations	p. 249
Final Thought	p. 252
Afterword	p. 253
Notes	p. 255
Index	p. 261
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