This Saturday, Ofita housed in its Madrid offices a new event to support the NGO Save The Children, organized by the firm Thinkers&Co. The challenge: to achieve greater involvement of youngsters in the cause of this NGO in benefit of refugee children. During the conference, Thinkers&Co developed a session to generate business ideas which may provide value to this NGO. Discipline is based on applying the design process as a holistic approach to solve problems; [...]

The new trends that are already stirring up work spaces In environments with high volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, today known as the VUCA World, changes in the design of offices are increasingly necessary and crucial. This way work spaces incorporate innovation as an ally boosting common areas and reducing workstations assigned to specific employees, to name just a few examples.     This idea gains much more sense when it is expected that in 2025 [...]

The evolution of working spaces Many are the changes in the design of offices required by the VUCA World and its new workers; in order to summarize them, we can list as the three main trends in the design of working spaces: The greater importance of collective spaces. The evolution of personal workstations to a broad array of shared spaces. The humanization and approach to the home setting both in the design of the [...]

  Ofita consolidates its position in Mexico with the award of new contracts. It has just furnished for example the corporate headquarters of the companies Danaher, T-Systems y Cushman & Wakefield.   Danaher new offices are located in Portal San Angel, Ciudad de México and it is a project signed by Colliers & Space Arquitectura. Ofita has supplied furniture for its 150 workstations with a fully customized design adapted to the requirements of the company. [...]

VUCA WORLD II     As we saw in our previous post (Office in VUCA World, Part I), the economic crisis and the VUCA World (in English, Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) with its demands of dynamism and flexibility, innovation, creativity and competitiveness have made necessary certain changes with a direct impact on companies and its organizational forms. Companies have been obliged to implement new organizational forms, to incorporate new technologies and/or to adapt its working [...]

Flexibility rules in the new working methods of the VUCA World. What is the VUCA World?  How are offices in the VUCA World? Several years ago, in collaboration with BICG (The Business Innovation Consulting Group), we published the study “Work in New Economies” a complete document where we anticipated the trends –nowadays confirmed-, regarding working methods and working spaces consequence of the so called “new economy”. Little by little we will reveal in our blog the [...]

The renewed showroom Ofita in Barcelona hosted the conference “ Rethink offices ” sponsored by Grupo Vía, to analyse the transformation undergone by offices spaces. With the attendance of around one hundred professionals and after an in-depth analysis of the offices market in Barcelona by Cushman & Wakefield, it put together recent and on-going experiences within the sector of office buildings of frontline firms such as GCA Architects, BCA, SCOB, B01 Arquitectes, Lagranja Design, Guday Terreros [...]

Ofita has just redesigned its offices and showroom in Madrid, totally refurbished and adapted to 3.0 offices. In its design, work methodology such as Lean and Design Thinking has played a leading role. New Ofita spaces serve as a showcase of collaborative working forms and their design responds to the present trends of interior design with space’s light and warmth as main actors. The barrier between home and office fades. Both spaces show the latest [...]

One more year, Ofita has renewed its adhesion to the Global Compact. This initiative of the United Nations promotes the fulfilment of Ten Principles related to human and labour rights, environment and corruption. Adhesion to the Compact is voluntary and those entities subscribing it undertake to defend the Principles and disseminate them. The Compact which already counts more than 12,000 members from 170 different countries, requests companies to align their strategies with operations through 10 [...]

During the implementation phase of an office it is vital therefore to have a solid change management program; mainly to help employees to understand the reasons of this new concept of office.