Creative Ideas Office Furniture

From Creative Space to Creative Waste

The furniture has come from Freelance World's new co-working area, Creative Space, on the ground floor of their Riverside Drive offices. Creative Space is an informal work space which can be used by freelancers and business people who normally work from home, or on their own. With wi-fi, printing facilities and coffee, it gives users a change of scenery and the option of collaborating with other users, or just having a chat while they work. Alasdair McGill, Managing Director of Freelance World said “Because the Creative Space is a place for ideas and innovative thinking, we wanted to make it look and feel inspiring. By replacing the everyday office furniture with some funkier chairs and desks we think we have made a workplace that visitors will look forward to using because it makes them more productive, and because it is fun.” Gillian Marr, Volunteer and Operations Manager at Aberdeen Forward commented, "Aberdeen Forward's Creative Waste Exchange accepts furniture, stationery and arts and crafts resources from local businesses and sells them as a good quality, low cost resource to community groups, schools and youth organisations. We were delighted to be offered Freelance World's furniture and would encourage other businesses to remember us when they are replacing their equipment.

Is It Still Cool To Be Creative? | Office Chair Supplier | Office ...

The extremely short and simplified answer is of course, yes.  Luckily we are not going to leave you with that anticlimactic solution.  Businesses everywhere are putting an extremely high value on creativity, as well they should be.  Creativity is valuable in every aspect of your company not just marketing or R&D.  The common misconception we are addressing today is that creativity = originality.  The idea that every creative person comes up with a brand new idea that no one has ever thought of before is absurd.  The sad truth is that there aren’t a lot of original ideas out there, but there are a lot of creative twists on existing ideas. So about this time your thinking, “Great, now what am I going to do?”.  Don’t fear, creativity is still one of the most valuable assets your company can have and here is why.

 

Creativity is key in problem solving.  Every bump in the road that comes up can be dealt with in the best way and then prevented using creative thinking and creative problem solving.  These may be problems that would cost your company a lot of money if you just followed procedure or thought inside the box.

Creativity can boost your sales.  Hiring creative sales people means that you have a team that can sell your product or service to anyone.  If they end up being surprised by a tough customer, they are able to think quickly and change their initial plan or strategy to adapt and make the sale.

Creativity can improve how your business runs or is run.  Every worker has opinions and ideas on what they would do differently or what they would like changed.  If you hire creative thinkers and get their input you may end up with the most efficient and productive company around.

Creativity can help you connect with your customers.  Marketing and advertising are traditionally where people tend to place their creative thinkers, but what about customer service and outreach.  They will be listening and interacting with your customers and they will be the ones who can come up with the best ideas to make those customers happy.

All of the ideas that your team comes up with may not be original, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t helpful and valuable.  Originality is really a high risk road to take, if you can take a product, service, or idea and change it in some way that makes it better or at least appeal to a different target market you are on the right track.

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