by Chris | Jul 18, 2016 | Articles, Place Making, Smart Spaces & Places, Workplace Strategy
Where are we going I asked my tour guide Chris Alcock as we headed south out of Melbourne? He replied I’m going to show you something special – a great example of smart working in the public sector. I was glad that I took up the offer of a visit to the City of Casey...
by Chris | Jul 15, 2016 | Agile Working, Articles, Smart Spaces & Places, Smart Working, Workplace Strategy
Last port of call on my smart working tour and back to where I started and indeed where Activity-Based Working (ABW) all started. It seemed quite fitting to spend the day tracing the origins of this remarkable approach to flexible working given all the great examples...
by Chris | Jul 11, 2016 | Agile Working, Articles, Future of Work, Place Making, Smart Spaces & Places, Smart Working, Workplace Strategy
The only appealing thing about arriving in Melbourne on a wet Sunday evening was I was spending four nights in the same place! Although I had visited Australia’s Second City on a number of occasions over the years this visit gave me the opportunity to have a proper...
by Chris | Jul 6, 2016 | Articles, Design & construction, Place Making, Smart Spaces & Places
My recent weekend in Christchurch proved to me that life goes on regardless of the earthquake devastation suffered by the city. It did seem very unfair to me, however, for Mother Nature to wreck such havoc on such a beautiful place. Since the life shattering events of...
by Chris | Jul 1, 2016 | Agile Working, Articles, Place Making, Smart Spaces & Places, Smart Working, sustainability, Workplace Strategy
Arrived into Auckland airport still jet lagged and it didn’t feel like I had ‘hopped over the ditch’ Little did I know that this fleeting visit to the city of sails would turn out to be very interesting...
