Epsisode 12 - Talking with Jeri Ballard at Shell about purposeful workplaces and so much more!
Ai Talks podcast Episode 12 is here and what a full conversation we had with Jeri Ballard, Executive Vice-President of Shell's Corporate Real Estate, Operations and Travel.
The highlight was the shift to more purposeful workspace and the understanding of personas in light of the year we had in 2020, but there is so much was covered it it is worthy of bullet points!!!
The role of AI to help understand space requirements better
With less business travel what this means to collaboration
How petrol stations will become more social destinations due to electrification of vehicles
How IBM Watson helped uncover interesting staff survey nuances
Jeri shared great insight into her world of getting Shell employees to the right workplace setting for their role and how understanding human behaviour and the interaction with ‘space’ is vital to how technology can help including great insight to the value of IoT sensors versus what problem is being solved.
Finally, Jeri introduced for me a new called 'presence disparity' which you will have to listen to the podcast to learn what that is all about!