by Brianna Crandall — July 13, 2012—This year’s Workplace Week Convention promises to challenge conventional thinking on organizations and the infrastructure that supports them. Part of Workplace Week, the Convention is organized by Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA), a multi-disciplined and independent management consultancy that helps large organizations to get the most from their workplace investments, practices and management.
The Workplace Week Convention, supported by the Anywhere Working Consortium and hosted by Microsoft at its offices in Victoria, London on November 8, 2012, will try to answer some key questions facing business leaders and those that manage property and support services:
- Faced with the most challenging economic climate for over 60 years, how can organizations become lean, yet still meet their obligations to clients, employees and shareholders?
- Are cost cutting, downsizing and de-layering the only options, or are there alternatives?
- How can organizations attract and retain the best talent in the marketplace?
- What is the role of /Real Esta/Business Leaders in delivering agility?
- Are cost cutting, downsizing and de-layering the only options, or are there alternatives?
Convention speakers will explain how agility can become a strategy and how “agile organizations” and workplaces actually work in practice. The Convention will also explore the role of technology in developing structures and processes that keep organizations and people fresh.
AWA has reportedly been at the forefront of thinking on workplace change for twenty years. AWA Managing Director Andrew Mawson has recently developed a new organizational model—the Kinetic Organization—to address the inherent inefficiencies of hierarchical structures that he will explain at the Workplace Convention. The speaker program also includes Mark Wood, Chief Executive at Paternoste, and Mary-Anne King, U.K. head of environmental sustainability at Microsoft and a member of the Anywhere Working Consortium steering committee.
Workplace Week is a week-long series of events and visits to interesting workplaces designed to showcase and celebrate innovation in work practices, processes, design and technology, that will take place November 5-9, 2012. It aims to raise as much money as possible for the BBC’s Children in Need charity, with an ambitious target of £20,000.
Workplace Week is supported by the Anywhere Working Consortium, the CoreNet Global U.K. Chapter, BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT), the British Council for Offices, the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) and its FM World magazine, fmx magazine, Premises & Facilities Management (PFM) magazine, Office Products International (OPI) magazine, and the Xenon Group.
