Getting endorsement for a new workplace design is time consuming and hard enough, so why waste time on a pilot project? In this blog we look at the benefits that can be achieved by pushing the boundaries of workplace design in a pilot setting, before going for the full expensive roll out. Here at brainybirdz…
brainybirdz are sometimes commissioned to write articles and blogs for other organisations. This is a re-post of a blog written for Open Sensors earlier this month, where we dig into existing scholarly research studies to understand whether Activity Based Working actually works. Designing an activity based workspace is increasingly becoming the desired aspiration as a…
When you are, like us, fully convinced that data collection is worth the bother, and have decided what problem you need to solve, another question might be arising. Is traditional small scale data still good enough, or do you need to get your head around the emerging discipline of data science and collect Big Data?…
Hopefully you are convinced that there is virtue in collecting data as a means to aid decision making, especially if you have read the first part of our blog series ‘What data should we collect?’. Now it’s time to think about the core question: what data is it that you should collect and how can…
It’s time for a confession: we are data scientists but very frustrated ones. Data can shine a light on so much, yet there seems to be much confusion and even anxiety about it. In the face of mounting options of easy and automated methods of workplace data collection, we often get asked what data a business…
What happens when 21 people volunteer to take part in a live workplace experiment? An experiment that tests what factors govern the choices people will make when asked to find a work setting for a collaborative team task? A couple of weeks ago we embarked on what was in itself an experimental formula: a kind…
A recent post on workplaceinsight, an online publication on the design and management of workplaces, which featured the new workplace design of management consultants BCG, got us thinking about the role of science in the workplace. The article was subtitled “Pushing the art and science of workplace design”. It featured attractive pictures of the new office,…
We are not called brainybirdz for nothing. We love birds. So when many months ago we found a tweet (!) from @biotweeps citing a 2012 study into the foraging behaviour of blue tits, great tits and marsh tits in woodlands in Oxfordshire, we were naturally interested, especially when we saw that the researcher scientists involved…
We don’t personally know any of the 1250 bio-medical research scientists who will come together in the new Francis Crick Institute later this year, but if they are anything like us, they are people who can’t rest until they can explain how and why things work as they do, based on experiment, data and evidence.…
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