Provide large group interaction spaces and small breakout areas for design team and personal work. Provide yourself and your teammates with the ability to work big and collaboratively. For many, creative thought comes from pacing, from working big, and from adding to someone else's ideas. Set the environment to facilitate different learning and thinking styles. Stock the environment with music, articles, posters, toys, books, surprises.
Technology acts as both a nervous system and an amplifier.
Used appropriately it can provide a platform for leveraging the creative work for continual leaps in productivity. Knowledge workers, as any craftsman, must understand and use their tools as an artist forging a masterpiece. Modern tools, while miracles each in themselves, do not now function as an integrated work process system. Instead, they amplify unusable data, automate unnecessary linear sequential processes and isolate you from your teammates and the natural environment. To produce tools, products and services for the knowledge economy, create environments and systems in which integrated human teams and smart technology combine to work and create what has not been done before.