OFFICE-AID
OFFICE-AID was a company internal innovation project to create a better working environment. The project objectives were to 1) redecorate office to be more innovative environment, and to 2) show employees we can make change with our own ideas (bottom-up approach). 19 people from almost all departments raised their hand to make the change together in December 2014. The team started from learning external examples, collected employees’ voice through survey, mapped out all and conflicting request from employees, created proposal and asked for budget, struggled to find a agreeable seating arrangement, assembled low cost IKEA furniture by ourselves, etc. There were difficult aspects in this project since people have different views, needs , and ideals to the office environment, but the team always came up with new ideas to find a solution. A great thing was that the team never forgot to enjoy themselves and respect others. The office became alive and almost all the employee's needs were involved in some way or other. Before we closed the project in early June, the team planed to propose an OFFICE-AID committee where all employee take a small ownership in turn to make the office even better.