Building learning and innovation into Steelcase's re-purposed European centre. The office and the workplace have been undergoing a paradigm shift for many years, which has been reflected in increasing automation and in changed roles, corporate cultures and hierarchies. Steelcase supports its customers not only in getting to grips with this change in everyday working life, but in seeing it as an opportunity to be seized: leading to more agility, more resilience, more innovation, more communication and more wellbeing. With this goal in mind, the global market leader in office furniture is observing and investigating exactly how work is done within its own company. Being innovative means solving problems in new and pioneering ways. Steelcase's Learning + Innovation Centre in the heart of Munich supports this, because it brings people together and offers them a tightly networked ecosystem of the broadest possible range of inspirational spaces and working environments without unnecessary barriers. People can choose where and how they want to work. Here, teams are not isolated from each other, but instead there are open working environments and highly permeable connecting routes, which make it easy for them to get together with colleagues, or even just to "bump" into them. These routes need no signposts, as they become intuitive when they are freed from barriers. The feeling of being part of a network with others does an enormous amount to strengthen the culture and speeds up innovation of all kinds.
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