Innovations in Office Design: The Critical Influence Approach to Effective Work Environments [Hardcover]

"The author takes a truly comprehensive approach to understanding the business barriers to the successful implementation of physical space design. The Critical Influence methodology identifies areas of resistance to change and addresses them, enabling the architectural and design firm to do what they do best—create the appropriate workplace solution."-- from the Foreword by Greg Bendis

"One of the most difficult aspects of facility management is the inability to link environmental improvements with measurable productivity results. Stegmeier’s observations in this area are based on hard facts and real research, not just abstract theories. Her work is an essential tool for any professional looking to justify facility improvements that can actually support and advance the mission of the organization."-- Heidi Schwartz, Editor-in-Chief of Today’s Facility Manager Magazine

This definitive book on innovations in interior office design offers vital lessons on preventing workplace strategy failure for architects, interior designers, facility managers, and business leaders. It fully explains the author’s research on the fifteen Critical Influences on behavior in the workplace, and introduces a practical approach to integrate an organization’s cultural, operational, and environmental elements fostering the desired behaviors to support the company’s business goals when designing an office. The book includes case studies of good design in contemporary interior offices illustrating collaborative workplaces that work.

Content from this book is available as an online continuing professional education course at http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-320255.html#office_design.  WileyCPE courses are available on demand, 24 hours a day, and are approved by the American Institute of Architects.

"Diane Stegmeier's landmark findings on workplace behavior in the corporate setting will prove vital in determining workplace strategy over the next ten years." —Prentice Knight, former CEO, CoreNet Global

"The author takes a truly comprehensive approach to understanding the business barriers to the successful implementation of physical space design. The Critical Influence methodology identifies areas of resistance to change and addresses them, enabling the architectural and design firm to do what they do best—create the appropriate workplace solution." —From the Foreword by Greg Bendis

"One of the most difficult aspects of facility management is the inability to link environmental improvements with measurable productivity results. Stegmeier's observations in this area are based on hard facts and real research, not just abstract theories. Her work is an essential tool for any professional looking to justify facility improvements that can actually support and advance the mission of the organization." —Heidi Schwartz, Editor/Copublisher, Today's Facility Manager

This definitive book on leadership in driving change through workplace transformation offers vital lessons for architects, designers, facility managers, corporate real estate human resource professionals, and business leaders. Written by an expert on workplace change management, the text reveals findings from more than ten years of research of 140 organizations, in twenty-four diverse industries, on how the workplace environment can be optimized to improve workforce productivity, thus better supporting the achievement of organizational goals.

Based on her research on the fifteen Critical Influences on behavior in the workplace, Stegmeier's practical approach to helping clients manage change is defined as the "practice of strategically guiding organizational transformation while maintaining human psychological stability and minimizing business process disruption."

Innovations in Office Design: The Critical Influence Approach to Effective Work Environments:

• Shatters the myth that the workplace design must bear 100 percent of the burden of transforming the way people work

• Reveals how workplace professionals can be involved earlier in the enterprise's decision making process, and serve as strategic business partners to the organization

• Includes lessons learned from numerous thought leaders in the design of commercial interiors