Frog is a global innovation firm that helps leading companies create meaningful products and experiences through a multidisciplinary process. They reveal valuable insights and deliver lasting solutions across technologies. Work is no longer defined by physical places but can happen anywhere due to new technologies allowing always-connected and asynchronous communications between multi-disciplinary teams who are not together physically. This has implications for how companies structure work and create a sense of place without physical offices.

1. WORK
STATES

2. “Man is only capable of two things,
making boxes and tools to make boxes”
Alan Stacell -Design / Architecture Professor

3. frog is a global innovation firm
We help the world’s leading companies
create and bring to market meaningful
products, services, and experiences.
Our multidisciplinary process reveals
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valuable consumer and market insights and
delivers lasting, humanizing solutions
across multiple technologies, platforms,
and media.
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4. Work is not
a place

5. Work is not
a place
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6. We are all
working
right now
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7. We work
here
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8. and Here
The laptop was the
gateway drug
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9. to some really bad trips
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10. Oh and then there are
these things
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11. My guilty geeky
pleasure
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12. The real advance:
Ear bud shot
computers that don’t
suck
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13. Efficient Power
Ear bud shot
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14. Always connected.
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15. the cloud(s)
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16. Always connected.
Then there is the
Reverse-Don Draper-
Effect.
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17. Our borders are
Always connected.
compromised and
worlds collide.is the Don
Then there
Draper effect.
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18. Conversation Tennis.
(asynchronous communications)
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19. But really, why do we
work like this?
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20. because we have to.
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21. because we have to.
and
because we want to.
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22. How to
Work

23. How to
Work
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24. multi-disciplinary teams
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25. but not together
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26. but “being” there
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29. Creating a sense of
place
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30. Google Street view for
the office

31. structured and
unstructured
order and chaos
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32. so what does that
actually mean?
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33. discover design deliver
strategy and design research then development team
folks do their thing, defining the vision, the then the designers design it (software and hardware) builds
solution, and the requirements it
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34. failure points
discover design deliver
strategy and design research then development team
folks do their thing, defining the vision, the then the designers design it (software and hardware) builds
solution, and the requirements it
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35. !
insight design build
convergence of convergence of
insight with design design with development
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36. !
insight design build
convergence of convergence of
insight with design design with development
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37. discovering what we
don’t already know
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38. frogMob
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39. frogMob
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40. hi-impact low-tech
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41. projectM
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42. craft
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44. “We consider that the
architects in every profession
are more estimable and know
more and are wiser than the
artisans, because they know
the reasons of the things
which are done.”
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45. craftsmanship
GM Wagoner, Henderson, and Whittaker
Whittaker said, “I don’t know anything
about cars....a business is a business.”
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46. Craftsmen
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47. the prototype
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48. explorers, scientists, artists and
entertainers
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49. Introducing the next great
business operating system
PowerPointOS
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50. conclusions
thoughts summary
predictions
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51. We are not going to
be working less but
might just perhaps
be happier working.
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52. Its going to be
much less about
who we work for
and who we work
with.
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53. Interesting is the
great motivator and
experience never
trumps curiosity.
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54. We are what we
make.
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