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Update: Designing new workspaces for the Learning Economy

The point of this post is to summarise some of my early research for a book on the companies, the work practices, technologies and places of work of what I describe as the Learning Economy. To aid my investigation, this is also the subject of the LinkedIn group of the same name here. (more…)... read more

What is a learning organisation?

“The rate at which organisations learn may become only sustainable source of competitive advantage.”

Arie De Geus, former corporate planning director with Royal Dutch Shell (more…)

An enormous opportunity for commercial developers

Because we are now in possession of the social technologies that can drive them, the internet-fuelled learning organisation has become an inevitable product of an age of accelerating workplace digitisation. It presents an enormous opportunity for commercial developers. (more…)... read more

ABOUT ITS OWN HEADQUARTERS, MERITON SAID IT, NOT US

On its own Meriton Apartments web site, developer Meriton has acclaimed the importance of the contribution of Shiro Architects’ design principal Hiromi Lauren to the Harry Seidler design of its mixed-use commercial-residential Meriton Tower in Sydney’s George Street. It now reads:

“When building the Meriton Tower, he worked with one of his gifted designers; Hiromi Lauren, who now runs Shiro Architects. Her ability to adapt her designs at speed were exactly what Seidler needed for the ever-changing project."

For us, this is generous acknowledgement indeed.

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