Tag: innovation

  • Corporate Coworking – Managing the Great Transition

    Coworking began as a framework for freelancers and startups to gain access to a productive work environment. Fast forward ten years… Corporate firms look to embrace the coworking ethos in order to revitalize company culture and employee experience. Introducing Corporate Coworking – a framework for the ‘great transition.’ As a coworking workplace strategy firm, we…

  • Hotel Coworking – an emerging trend in the Hospitality Industry

    Hotels Evolve: Enter Coworking The trend is still emerging, yet innovative players in the industry are quickly experimenting with ‘activating their lobbies.’  Why has the coworking trend reached the hotel world?  Coworking can help create a fully integrated ecosystem within a building, whether it is a hotel, residence, or office building. It appeals to guests…

  • The Ad Agency Model Evolves, Enter #Coworking

    Coworking began mostly in coffee shops. Then it migrated into coworking spaces. Eventually, WeWork happened, building immense awareness for the coworking model in greater society. When we closed Conjunctured a little over a year ago, we did so betting that coworking would transcend the traditional coworking space model- and enter into society through new ways. Fast…

  • Grassroots community, the Kansas City Startup Village, coworks in one of Sprint’s corporate creations – in an uncorporate collaboration.

    The idea for the event came up when Erik Wullschleger, general manager of the Sprint Accelerator powered by Techstars, grabbed coffee with Marcus and fellow Kansas City Startup Village co-leader Adam Arredondo. “We have this really cool space and want to put it to work, so why not move KCSV for a day?” Wullschleger said. “Whether…

  • Phoenix innovates traditional library model, integrates coworking

    “We want people to talk in here,” said Claudia León, business librarian at Burton Barr. “This is a unique kind of concept. It’s basically just a place for people to come in and network with other people. A discovery space. Phoenix, which operates the library, partnered with Arizona State University to create the Hive. It’s…

  • I Can’t Prove It

    Several years ago, at the Transform Innovation Summit at the Mayo Clinic, Roger Martin gave a moving talk about what kills and what drives innovation.  In the talk, which he called a rant, he suggested that the two words- prove and it- when used together, are innovation killers.  He provided several powerful examples in the talk, which I recommend that everyone…

  • InnovationCamp Official After Party at Conjunctured

    Conjunctured is a sponsor of InnovationCamp today, right here in our own backyard.What you may not have known, though, is that we’re also the official after party location of iCamp! If you’re planning on becoming a member of Austin’s first coworking space, this would be a great time to walk around and check us out…