Sharing Workplace Approaches Across the Atlantic

In november 2008 heeft VC Business Company een bezoek gebracht aan de Cornell University om te spreken met Franklin Becker, auteur van Offices at Work: Uncommon Workspace Strategies that Add Value and Improve Performance (2004) en Workplace by Design: Mapping the High-Performance Workscape (with Fritz Steele, 1995) over de verschillende trends qua werkplekstrategie. De tweede dag van ons bezoek hebben wij kennis mogen maken met Anika Savage & Michael Sales van Art of the Future (http://www.artofthefuture.com/) om ervaringen en verschillende invalshoeken te bespreken.  Onderstaand is een kort citaat opgenomen uit deze nieuwsbrief.

'Art of the Future received a visit from the executive team of the VC Business Company located in the Netherlands. They were on a mission to talk directly with thought-leaders in the field of workplace strategy. On a learning expedition organized by principals Carolien de Heer and Michael Kloprogge, VC closed their offices for several days, boarded a plane to New York and drove to Cornell to talk with Professor Franklin Becker, author of Offices at Work: Uncommon Workspace Strategies that Add Value and Improve Performance (2004) and the classic Workplace by Design: Mapping the High-Performance Workscape (with Fritz Steele, 1995). Although Becker has now turned his attention to healthcare, the VC team garnered insights from their discussion. The next day, they again fit their group of seven into a minivan and set out on a 250 mile journey to Art of the Future, located north of Boston. We were pleased to have this opportunity to share our research, experience and perspectives with this thoughtful, energetic and dedicated group.' ( voor het gehele bericht: artofthefutureofwork.blogspot.com/2009/01/sharing-approaches-to-workplace.html )