Reinventing the Workplace
Excerpt
- Design Participation Matrix
Becker, F., Joroff, M., & Quinn, K. L. (1995).
Toolkit: Reinventing the Workplace. Norcross, GA: International
Development Research Council
This publication was designed as a companion volume
to Reinventing the Workplace (1995), a report prepared by the
IWSP for the International Development Research Council. Its purpose
was to provide real estate, facility management, and other design
professionals with simple, practical tools and techniques that
they could use or adapt for use as they implemented new workplace
strategies.
Use the Design Participation Matrix in Setting
Goals and Establishing Teams.The design participation matrix is
very useful early in an innovative workplace strategy pilot project
or in a large-scale effort to help outline the planning process.
It is also helpful in clarifying who should be involved and in
what ways those players should contribute to the IWS development.
The design participation matrix should initially be developed
by the core project team.
Senior management should review both the stakeholders
identified and the types of participation that the core project
team has assigned to different stakeholders. The objective is
to increase the likelihood that no significant group is overlooked
and to insure that top management understands the role of each
participant, including its own. This minimizes second-guessing
and end runs later in the project. Other key functional areas,
such as human resources and MIS, should also review the design
participation matrix to ensure that no key parties to implementing
the IWS project have been overlooked, and that there is agreement
across functional lines on the roles and nature of involvement
of all participants.
