Studio TK Update
There are innumerable books offering advice on change management. But when it comes to actually managing change in one’s own company, the options can seem wide open, uncertain and more than a little daunting. Against a backdrop of significant change in the way offices are being fitted out, the companies with the biggest market share in the panel systems segment found themselves scrambling to find a place in the growing market for the new, more residential or hospitality-like look, feel and function. The market shift from a planning mode where panel systems and private offices along the window wall predominated to a much more casual, social and communal, planning mode brought about the decline of panel systems and the rise of what the biggest companies had previously referred to (and often overlooked) as ancillary products. In a period where the total volume of the industry was flat, companies strong in …