John Lively & Associates is a commercial and custom residential design firm specializing in all forms of architectural design. We provide our clients with distinctive designs that will be as elegant tomorrow as they are today.
Another part of our success is creating precise and informative plans. By employing field-related designers and using the latest in computer technology, we create plans that are as accurate as they are exciting. We use state of the art technology to provide the most accurate drawings in the industry. This streamlines the building process allowing the builder to provide a profitable and satisfying experience for their clients.
Every person within an organizational ecosystem possesses potentially valuable intelligence, creativity, insights and problem-solving abilities. However, many organizations are designed only to hear and apply the thoughts and expressions of a limited group of elite "esteemed influencers." There can be enormous benefit and critical importance for an organization to embrace an improved operating architecture with wide, open gateways for expression combined with improved efficacies in "signal" discernment and "noise" filtering. Advocated herein is a design enabling an organization to pursue and consider the the "full spectrum" of intelligence, experiences, knowledge, observations and creativity, insights and concerns of every worker, customer, supplier, candidate, investor, other applicable minds across and beyond its ecosystem. A Creative Hive is an organizational construct of "inclusive and open intelligence" as opposed to "exclusive, limited intelligence." For an organization to accomplish such a reality, there are at least five primary considerations: 1. Reducing or eliminating factors that suppress or restrict expression or imagination throughout an organization's ecosystem. The suppression factors are generally present throughout an organization and be both blatant and hidden. Certainly, all empowered leadership must shift from being obstacles to becoming active proponents and participants in forming and sustaining a Creative Hive. 2. Emergent expression and stochastic resonance must be systemically enabled throughout the organization's ecosystem. This organic activity is balanced by distributed and central mechanisms of vetting and decision-making so as to accurately resonate with prospective tactical and strategic value. 3. Precipitating attention and creative expression of select groups to specific topics, challenges and problems by design, so as to resonate accurately with the articulated needs and priorities of the organization. 4. Amplify and sustain fruitful worker innovation by explicit functional ...