Making Change Work

A glimpse into how IBM India campuses reflect the evolving interface between the brand and its people.

- Rashmi Naicker

Environmental issues have become increasingly complex and inter-disciplinary, requiring solutions across various stages of design, construction and maintenance. Although independent solutions for each of these areas have been developed, an interfacial integration of these three verticals can lead to more effective and comprehensive solutions. The IBM campuses execute this with elan. In the world of emerging corporate real estate, facility managers are responsible for functional and aesthetic excellence, preconditioned to the fundamentals and specifications. And the IBM team, led by Manjunath Prabhu, head - site operations for the company, brings together experts from various disciplines to focus on providing solutions to the disparate environmental and maintenance issues faced by the company.

Office campuses speak of a conglomeration of people,cultures, and characters; and also vastly influence the productivity of its inhabitants. The current ethos of IBM’s design renaissance has evolved from its past corporate design programme. Flourishing in a field that spawns innovation by the minute, the tech giant has constantly transformed their office building model to refocus on emerging employee traits.