Workplace
Workplace
To increase work productivity, choose working in a cafe
[Workshop Cafe] San Francisco, California
San Francisco’s Financial District is known as the “Wall Street of the West Coast.” In the area, there is a cafe where people gather day or night. Known as the Workshop Cafe, you can see the ingenuity of the founder in the creation of the space, the interior and its ease of use.
A Los Angeles incubator attracting the world’s cleantech companies
[LACI] Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles was a thriving community and a leader of the US manufacturing industry but it was suffering from environmental issues concerning dust, water and transpiration-related problems. AN NPO to attract outstanding cleantech companies, LACI, was created in the city. Its effects are already very visible in the short five years since its founding.
An artistic environment to nurture Hollywood’s next generation
[Emerson College] Los Angeles
Emerson College was founded more than 130 years ago. Its faculty members teach marketing and communications, journalism, film, television, theater, screenwriting, and more. A large number of students graduate with these majors. The college also opened a campus in LA, Emerson College Los Angeles.
Solving Social Problems Through Participatory
Design; An Innovation Unit Involving Citizens,
Lab Corporations and Government
[MindLab] Copenhagen, Denmark
MindLab is an innovation unit bringing together Denmark’s Ministry of Business and Growth, Ministry of Children and Education and Ministry of Employment. Participatory design was used to involve citizens and resolve social issues.
Unique Approach to Innovation:
In-House Innovation
[Deutsche Telekom AG] Berlin, Germany
Deutsche Telekom AG, a telecommunications company with Europe’s largest market share, has in recent years put additional efforts into expanding its internet-related services. The secret for its global success is their unique approach to innovation.
Eight Experts Bring Forth Social Reform
[Sitra] Helsinki, Finland
Sitra is Finland’s official body for social innovation. To resolve sophisticated, complex problems, it developed an original innovation method known as the Studio.
Developing a community, based on coworking
[Citizen Space] San Francisco, California, USA
Citizen Space, a key mover in the coworking space movement. From providing a simple facility, to today hosting the Co-Learning seminars, it develops a wide range of services. But at the heart of it, always, is the community-based coworking concept.
Aimed at solving social problems:
An NGO in Toronto, Canada
[TakingITGlobal] Toronto, Canada
The NGO TakingItGlobal (TIG) operates a website providing support to young people who are strongly interested in social issues such as poverty and health. It is based around just 15 employees, and has grown into a site with some 50 million users around the world. It provides a unique set of activities.
Values and a shared vision
Attract creative talent
[Getty Images] Seattle, Washington, USA
The tough changes in the stock photo industry aren’t stopping the momentum of Getty Images, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015. Despite gathering creative talent to Seattle from all over the world, the company is a rare example of a firm that has been able to retain its human resources. This article explores the reasons why this is true.
Stanford University’s special organization, where the innovation to turn design concepts into reality is taught
[D.SCHOOL] Palo Alto, California, USA
In order to deal with the high uncertainty about future prospects, the d.school provides an original method of problem solving. During our research, here we found a place where people apply their hands and heads, find their motivation and, through trial and error, find the hints for practical solutions.
Creators from Redmond dominate the American game industry
[DigiPen Institute of Technology] Redmond, Washington, USA
DigiPen is a university that has produced a string of developers active in the US game industry. But why are they able to consistently train these excellent people at this university? The answer is that, rather than focusing on technology alone, they’ve designed a curriculum focused on thoroughly investigating the kinds of technology needed to produce a particular product and their students put this to practice year after year.
Using open-minded thinking to achieve artistic work
[OBSCURA DIGITAL] San Francisco, California, USA
A company creating globally surprising, revolutionary image technology requires individual passion, and the strong stimulus of a super group of colleagues. We look into this company where an environment has been created effectively bringing employees with sharp senses into working process.
Creating a highly public place to capture the desire for both external and internal self-realizationA
[WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION] San Francisco, California, USA
The reason that a group of just over 100 staff can manage the massive Internet infrastructure of one of the top-five globally-accessed sites is the involvement of outside resources. We discover the secrets behind this cohesive space where cooperating workers just stop by casually.
A product concept that reflects the individual’s own way of action
[Evernote] Redwood City California, USA
Just recently — in July of 2012— Evernote moved into a new office in Redwood City, California. The company has experienced explosive growth, but it has continued to build on its unique product, one that allows people on the move to synchronize their important information.
Investing in businesses and people who have eliminated habit and apathy
[Cyber Agent] Shibuya Tokyo, Japan
Growing to more than 2,000 employees, the group has become a major company still imbued with a venture spirit that is helping them develop new business. A company that doesn’t allow apathy from its employees, and that wants to make a sea change in the industry.
A next-generation personal development courses with unique methodology on co-creation concept
[Hyper Island] Stockholm, Sweden
As was seen in the features on Acne Production and DDB Stockholm, Scandinavia is turning out many creative people; Hyper Island provides practical, business-oriented training courses.
The creation of advertising based on active exchange outside the office and which appeal to human sensibilities
[DDB] Stockholm, Sweden
Agency staff familiar with a style that is more like an art project, and who do not rely on outsourcing, are breaking the boundaries of departments and deepening the bonds within the company.
Thoroughly investigating and introducing ABW, led to the creation of a collaborative office with high levels of staff satisfaction
[Goodman] Sydney, Australia
Global integrated commercial and industrial property group Goodman has Japanese offices in Tokyo and Osaka. The company has passed the 20th anniversary of its founding, and has developed into a global business. Just four years ago, its Sydney headquarters were challenged with increasing its office floor space as is common with growing companies.
Continuing an original value the DNA of
Creative collaboration and partner matching
[Arup] Fitzroy, London, UK
Employing the world's top-class engineers and project leaders, making possible unimaginable building projects.
Building a best-selling product by being close to customer thinking
[Innocent Drinks] Kensington and Chelsea, London, UK
A food business first thought up by three school friends at a party has grown into a top brand, one known by almost every Londoner. An innovative workplace is one of the keys to staying close to consumers.