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UAE - EnglishQ&A: Dr Marie Puybaraud, Director Global WorkPlace Innovation
How would you describe your role?Director of Global WorkPlace Innovation (GWi), Global WorkPlace Solutions’ Research & Development program. GWi is driven by Johnson Controls desire to make a fundamental contribution to the development of innovative solutions to the workplace challenges that our industry and customers face.
What route has your career taken?
How would your colleagues describe you at work?
A knowledgeable and sincere person, with a lot of integrity as well as someone who enjoys being part of and leading a team and working in a positive and challenging environment. I think they’d also comment on my jewellery which I love to make.
What do you still want to achieve?
To continue delivering innovative solutions to the business, forming more alliances and partnerships through our innovation hub, GWi.
What do you like about working at JCI / how would you describe the culture?
I enjoy my work tremendously and the challenging environment which comes with it! Johnson Controls offers so many opportunities across such a wide range of industries and workplaces. We are a multicultural business and we work in a boundary-less organization. This is such a rich environment in which to evolve. GWi is a unique program and it is a privilege to lead it.
What are your most recent research findings/outputs?
The workplace as we know it today will be shaped and used very differently by 2030: we will evolve in a smart, seamless and sensory working environment, one where the workplace will respond to our needs instantly, meet our demands in real time. The way we work has constantly evolved over the last 20 years. We will transform ourselves into a powerful multi-generational knowledge society, shaped by the economic, political, environmental pressures around us and governance. But more than ever a user-centric approach is required and both efficiency and effectiveness are a must in our industry: a smart workplace.
What projects are you working on at the moment?
Our “Futures” research has been a major success and a leading edge exercise. The thought leadership we delivered is starting to demonstrate to our clients and our industry leaders how, as a major service provider we aim to anticipate change and help shape the future of the workplace. We have also created advanced research solutions, tools and concepts like Oxygenz and its dashboard, a new consulting tool. The level of engagement we create with the community is also unique: the Global Mobility Network seminar series is one forum where we clash and challenge today's given concept: dealing with cultural mash up in organizations to even challenging the need to have workplaces...
When will your next research findings be completed?
Watch out for the Oxygenz report at the end of October 2009 and the new Flexible Working Survey 2009 very soon. 2010 will bring new projects in the GWi program: our Techno Watch program will be reshaped, we will launch a new project called Communication 2020 and we will start a road mapping exercise with the Futures Lab of Johnson Controls Automotive Group.
What one thing could you not live without?
A notebook and a pen: I constantly take notes, draw, and collect articles, photos... My notebook is like a scrapbook!
What would people be surprised to know about you?
That I worked in a vet practice for four years during holidays, assisting the vet to operate on all sorts of animals: cats, dogs, pigs...
If you had to choose a completely different career – what would it be?
I would run my own art and craft studio and make pottery, jewellery and upholstery, sewing and working with materials like metal, wood, glass, paper, fabric, and anything recycled to give them a second life.
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A knowledgeable and sincere person, with a lot of integrity as well as someone who enjoys being part of and leading a team and working in a positive and challenging environment. I think they’d also comment on my jewellery which I love to make.
What do you still want to achieve?
To continue delivering innovative solutions to the business, forming more alliances and partnerships through our innovation hub, GWi.
What do you like about working at JCI / how would you describe the culture?
I enjoy my work tremendously and the challenging environment which comes with it! Johnson Controls offers so many opportunities across such a wide range of industries and workplaces. We are a multicultural business and we work in a boundary-less organization. This is such a rich environment in which to evolve. GWi is a unique program and it is a privilege to lead it.
What are your most recent research findings/outputs?
The workplace as we know it today will be shaped and used very differently by 2030: we will evolve in a smart, seamless and sensory working environment, one where the workplace will respond to our needs instantly, meet our demands in real time. The way we work has constantly evolved over the last 20 years. We will transform ourselves into a powerful multi-generational knowledge society, shaped by the economic, political, environmental pressures around us and governance. But more than ever a user-centric approach is required and both efficiency and effectiveness are a must in our industry: a smart workplace.
What projects are you working on at the moment?
Our “Futures” research has been a major success and a leading edge exercise. The thought leadership we delivered is starting to demonstrate to our clients and our industry leaders how, as a major service provider we aim to anticipate change and help shape the future of the workplace. We have also created advanced research solutions, tools and concepts like Oxygenz and its dashboard, a new consulting tool. The level of engagement we create with the community is also unique: the Global Mobility Network seminar series is one forum where we clash and challenge today's given concept: dealing with cultural mash up in organizations to even challenging the need to have workplaces...
When will your next research findings be completed?
Watch out for the Oxygenz report at the end of October 2009 and the new Flexible Working Survey 2009 very soon. 2010 will bring new projects in the GWi program: our Techno Watch program will be reshaped, we will launch a new project called Communication 2020 and we will start a road mapping exercise with the Futures Lab of Johnson Controls Automotive Group.
What one thing could you not live without?
A notebook and a pen: I constantly take notes, draw, and collect articles, photos... My notebook is like a scrapbook!
What would people be surprised to know about you?
That I worked in a vet practice for four years during holidays, assisting the vet to operate on all sorts of animals: cats, dogs, pigs...
If you had to choose a completely different career – what would it be?
I would run my own art and craft studio and make pottery, jewellery and upholstery, sewing and working with materials like metal, wood, glass, paper, fabric, and anything recycled to give them a second life.
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- The WorkPlace in 2030
- "Walk through" the workplace of 2030
- Discover "Nina's" typical workday in 2030 (pdf 26 kb)
- Flexible Working Research
