Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Sketch Problem: Collaboration

Google Inc. has taken elaborate steps in their corporate offices to ensure that they remain the leader in internet technology. Their office is organized with clear cubicles, playrooms with video games, and free breakfast, lunch and dinner, all to encourage collaboration among their employees. Employees are instructed to used 80% of their work time for work, and the other 20%, or at least one work day per week, on whatever they want. By encouraging the employees to pursue other interests, Google manages to harness that creativity brought about from those ideas and a large majority of their applications such as Google Earth and Gmail have come from this 20%. Everyone at Google Inc. is exceptional at and passionate about something, whether technology related or not. Hierarchies do not exist within the Corporation, and the chief officers regularly take salaries of just $1 and stock options, as an incentive to continue innovating.

Looking at collaboration with a lack of hierarchy: A seemingly static 2D form.


When rotated begins to show the differences:

Which then all but disappear:
This is unfinished and I plan to do two more takes on it.

1 comment:

F.R. said...

does the rotation based on your 80-20 percent theory?