The Seven Basic Concepts of Design for Creating Collaborative Spaces
A Comprehensive Approach to Designing Creative, Collaborative Environments
Published by InnovationLabs, 2001
Planning, design and strategizing have been separated from the daily work of companies for decades, despite many efforts to combine them. But the digitization of the economy, the dependence on intellectual capital for success, and the well-known increasing rate of change conspire to remove the boundary. We probably won’t see the end of the business planning retreat as a tool, but many of its components will be replaced by capabilities that are built into the normal work environment and made accessible to the general workforce.
There are three basic types of collaborative spaces: war rooms, creativity centers, and collaboration centers. War rooms represent one successful attempt to improve the collaboration between people and real time information. The best examples provide a side-by-side presentation of current operating information and models of the business and its environment that facilitate decision-making. Creativity centers hold a position at the other end of the spectrum where play, visualization, and out-of-the-box activities create lateral shifts in thinking. Collaboration centers hold the middle ground, making a nod to both the need for creative thinking and access to strategic models and operational information.
This white paper explores the key criterian to consider when designing collaborative environments of all kinds.
Table of Contents
- Seven Basic Design Criteria
- Shifting Work Group Size
- Coordination of Work in Space
- Coordination of Work in Time
- Adding Capability to the Matrix
- Collaborative Visual Modeling Equipment
- Furniture to Support the Stage and Studio
- A Process to Guide the Team from Modeling to Project Management
- Information Management System
- The Opportunity
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