Adaptive Work Environment at McKesson
BPS worked with McKesson Corporation www.mckesson.com to develop and implement the company’s AWE program initiative. The goal of McKesson’s AWE program is to create:

1. Cost Savings
2. Business Process Support
3. Better alignment of real estate design with technology and the way they work.
4. A workplace to attract and retain – to be an employer of choice.

 

The program is being developed through projects involving the company’s McKesson Provider Technologies business unit with locations in Colorado and Georgia, as well as their headquarters in San Francisco, California.  Overall program development includes engagement strategy, programming tools, solutions sets, change management and metrics.  Key measures of success for the AWE program include:

1. Increased space utilization and lower facilities cost per person
2. Degree to which environment facilitates the ability to work
3. Improved technology support of workforce mobility
4. Reduction in employee turnover and employee satisfaction with workplace

 

The first implementation site will be occupied in spring of 2008 in Westminster, Colorado.  This site will feature collocation of 700 employees in an environment designed to foster greater transparency, communication, and adaptability of the workplace to respond to workplace needs that vary from group to group as-well-as over time.  BPS is also working with McKesson on the application of AWE to the Atlanta cluster of MPS offices with the goal of refining the AWE strategy including planning and implementation processes, solution sets and organizational support mechanisms.

 

Overall, BPS’s role includes:
- Engagement methodology
- Programming tools
- Solutions development
- AWE change management and communications strategies
- Measures of success