Advancing the Debate on the Open Plan Office
When a new piece of research hits the workplace community, you know pretty quickly as everyone starts talking about it, …
Agile Working
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3 Tips For Flexible Working
Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) are proud advocates for agile working and activity based working (ABW). As we’ve highlighted in other …
Winter and Cognitive Performance
It’s come to that time of year where the northern hemisphere starts to freeze over. That’s right, winter is upon …
Benefits of Agile Working
The Benefits of Agile Working Practices Without naming names, it is clear from the projects we work on here at …
Mitigating Risks to Agile Working Projects
Risk Management in Agile Working In my previous blog I looked at the management of risks that occur in agile …
Risk Management – Transitioning to Agile Workplace
In this series of blogs on Agile Working we have discussed the difficulty of getting people to buy in to …
Transition to Agile Working Gone off Track?
All business changes require preparation, planning, execution and maintenance if they are to be successful and persist into the future. …
Want to Know How to Implement Agile Working?
The team at Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) has been supporting organisations wanting to make a change to agile ways of …
Getting the Agile Workplace Experience “Right on Day One”
One of my Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) colleagues has these words as her middle name! When supporting and guiding agile …
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Why your BAU Process Won’t Work
Most Business-As-Usual (BAU) relocating processes are designed around moving people from a fixed position to another fixed position (from “my …
How to Sell the Change to Agile Working
The question people often ask us is how they can “sell” agile working within their organisation. Wouldn’t it be nice …
How Much Data do we Need for Agile Working?
This is a question asked by a client some while ago. They were in a hurry and were a trifle …
Why can Implementing Agile Working be so Hard?
The simple answer is that if you’re going to become more agile in the way you work and operate, people …
5 Common Mistakes Made When Implementing Agile Working
People have been implementing agile working for years. There are lots of good examples, but probably even more where agile …
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Agility and the Rate of Change
Bill Gates is often quoted as saying that “we overestimate the degree of change in the next 2 years and …
The Difference between Agile Working and Flexible Working
For years the two terms have been used in a rather arbitrary way. This had led to confusion and not …
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Is Agile a Buzzword?
I have been thinking about agility quite a lot recently and in the last few articles I have written have …
Agile Office Environments
Blogging has its risks. If people read them then they often come back with searching questions that require further consideration. …
What is Agile Working? What is an Agile Workplace? What do we really mean?
There is no doubting the interest that various professional groups and management gurus have in the term of “Agile Working” …
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Agile Working
Agile Working Agile working can be defined as a spectrum of working arrangements that enable people to work when, how …