| March 2008 |
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| New Building Sets Sustainability Standards for Stanford University |
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Y2E2 also sets new standards for collaboration
Stanford Report, March 3, 2008
Nobody likes moving. There are boxes, things get lost, nobody can find your new office and the phone always takes longer to reconnect than planned. That said, the move to Y2E2 came as good news to Stanford's environmental researchers. For them, the building promises the ability to work closely, in the physical sense of the word, with colleagues in many disciplines.
A month after packing and unpacking, Dick Luthy, the Silas H. Palmer Professor of Civil Engineering and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, said that even as the moving process was under way, he could sense a difference.
"Prior to moving into the building, casual interactions with colleagues in other disciplines were rare outside of organized activities. It is apparent already in just one month that those days are over. We all are experiencing a greater social dynamic across all areas of energy and environment."
When the building was first conceived, scholars, planners such as Point Forward, and architects were intent on promoting multidisciplinary interaction through architecture. Studies have shown that unscheduled encounters are critical for knowledge-based organizations. As Luthy said, "It's one thing to plan a meeting, it's another thing altogether to be confident that on a daily basis one will run into someone and get new ideas." |
November 2007
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| Changing the World |
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Bring modern lighting to the 1.6B people currently without electricity
D.light Design is a social enterprise and venture-backed high-growth company dedicated to bringing modern lighting and power to under-served populations globally.
D.light is partnering with Point Forward to study people in some of the poorest rural areas of India and other developing countries. The vision is to end kerosene lighting. By upgrading from kerosene lanterns to higher quality lighting, families will enjoy the benefits of Improved Health (reduction of indoor air pollution), Access to Education (higher quality and brighter light for children to read by), Saved Lives (kerosene causes thousands of fires and burns annually), More Savings (the average rural household in India spends three times more on kerosene than on education), and Higher Income (improved lighting means big increases in income levels due to increased productivity at night).
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| June 2006 |
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| Hospitals Start Major Innovation Program |
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Patient Experience at Alegent Health
Alegent Health is the largest not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system in Nebraska and southwestern Iowa with nine acute-care hospitals, more than 100 sites of service, over 1,300 physicians on its medical staff and roughly 8,600 employees.
Alegent has launched a broad-based initiative with Point Forward to significantly improve patient experience in a number of treatment areas. Ted Schwab,
the first Chief Innovation Officer in healthcare, says, "By allowing Alegent Health physicians and employees the opportunity to dream, create, and experiment with new ideas, we have the potential to create solutions to some of our most pressing healthcare challenges --stemming rising costs, advancing quality, creating better access for under served populations and enhancing physician partnerships." |
| December 2004 |
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| IIR 7th Annual "Voice of the Customer" Conference |
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Exploring the Human Side
December 7-9, 2004, San Francisco, Calif.
The story of Fridge Pack was presented by Mark Abel, Alcoa Packaging Division and Gary Waymire, Point Forward on Day One of the conference. Attendees learned how ideation based on insights from ethnographic research is increasing revenues for Alcoa & Coca-Cola. |
