Project Mindshift - Dallas Recap

This is a secured weblog providing a useful tool for initial conversations organizing our thoughts and efforts for Project Mindshift. I will use this to summarize meeting notes and list the actionable steps for follow up. This will also allow those on the project team to comment.

We may shift this to another tool like Basecamp.

The two actionable steps from today's conversations are:Determine a date for our partner gathering in Houston (end of

February/early March - Lydia Knowles will report with the date options and coordinate with Rex to discuss with Gensler).

Determine the list of members we wish to invite. At the moment we have commitments from:

1. Gensler Houston (Marilyn Archer & Dean Strombom), Gensler LA (Jim Oswald - facilitator), Gensler SF - (Loree Goffigon), Gensler Dallas (Paul Manno).


2. Cushman Dallas (Randy Thompson).


3. KPMG Houston (Jabir Al-Hila).


4. Turner Dallas (Lance Charriere).

We would like to add the following members:

1. GSA - Kevin ? - Who owns this one?


2. Developer (Hillwood or Beightler) - Who owns this one?


3. U of Calgary - Brian St. Claire (Bill Black owner)


4. DEGW (Kate North owner)


5. Fast Company or Metropolis (Mabel Casey owner)


6. Turner - to find someone with a national perspective (Lydia Knowles owner)

Where would a firm like NowWow or Future of Work fit into this? Does this overlap with DEGW?

We discussed developing a second team with Perkins & Will as a key member and keeping this team smaller and more strategic. This team should include a GC and probably a developer.

End User Group: Bill Black, Lydia Knowles and Rex Miller will develop a list of potential end-users with the thought of forming a separate forum and either integrate that knowledge into the two core teams or to introduce one or more members into the core teams once they become established.

Some of the names mentioned include:

• Larry Fees with Compuware


• Alan Witsen with Squarefootage.net


• Calamos.

We may also want to discuss forming local dialogue groups based on the location of some of the different Haworth project members; Dallas, Calgary, LA and Grand Rapids.

The initial Haworth team members for Houston include; Mabel Casey, Bill Black, Franco Bianchi, and Greg Bobyn.

Add your comments and ideas.