Future of Workspace

Team composition

• Arjan Hannink
• Jasper Odijk
• Ron Sneijers
• Sander van den Belt
• Wojtek Chowanski

Introduction

How will the business workspace look in the next ten years.

Hopefully like this
http://download.sneijers.net/hawaii.jpg

Dimensions

1. Technological
2. Political and Legal
3. Enviromental
4. Economical
5. Social

Driving Forces

+++Please Order all new driving forces alphabetical+++

Guys, you also have to link your driving force at this page http://scenariothinking.org/wiki/index.php/Driving_Forces to avoid duplicate driving forces.

Technological

• High Speed Train Network (HSL)
• Network Bandwidth
• Pay-as-you-drive
• Technology convergence
• The increase of digital developing functions in a mobile phone
• Virtual Communication
• Virtual Communities
• WiMAX

Political and Legal

• European integration
• European Labour Market
• World Unification

Enviromental

• Global Warming
• Green Buildings
• Green transporation mediums
• Pollution
• Public meeting spaces
• Traffic Congestion

Economical

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• Business in Society
• High Speed Train Network (HSL)
• Iranian Oil Bourse
• Pay-as-you-drive
• Traffic Congestion

Social

• Aging Europe
• Business in Society
• Emergence of new Technology Related Diseases
• immigration
• Increasing Mobility
• Mobile workplace
• People's need for communication and information
• Power of Information-anywhere, everywhere
• The Globalization of Culture (or Cultural Globalization)
• The Language Barrier
• Urbanization and Social Status

Research questions

Technological

• What's the most promising emerging technology to support virtual communication and doing business?
• How will the future workscape be equiped? Which devices will be used?
• What kind of technological infrastructure is needed to support the future workspace?
• What role will security play in the future workspace?
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Political and Legal

• What are the effects of unequal minimum wages between European countries on the workspace?
• How can you find harmony between European countries on regulations and legislation concerning the workspace with respect to country's sovereignty?
• What’s the role of the European Union on the workspace? How can they support it and how can they thwart it?

Enviromental

• How will enviromental legislature affect the bottom line of our company?
  
• How will Kyoto protocol affect operating costs of an office building?
  
• What future enviromental protection legislature will have an affect on transporation to/from our place of work?
  
• How will alternative sources of energy affect the way we work?
  
• What are the most serious affects of our workspace on the environment?

Economical

• What will the general European economical developments most likely be within the coming decade?
• How will the general European economical development affect the future of the workspace?
• How will the future workspace contribute to the economical direction and position of Europe?
  

Social

• How could religion affect possible implications in a future workspace?
  
• Will there be a standard language in a multi-cultural company?
  
• How does the future workspace influence the client/colleque relationship?
  
• How will a future workspace change the organisational hierarchy?
  
• How do you control and manage employees when you can work anywhere anytime?
  
• How will a future workspace affect the training process?
• How will a future workspace affect knowledge sharing within the corporation and within the entire supply chain of companies?
  
  

References

Articles

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Websites

• Aviva Forward Thinking - The economist
• EU - Towards a european labour market
• PWC - International mobility insight

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