What's next for Booz Allen:
The Innovation Center and beyond
As for the new Innovation Center — the 10,000 square foot space on the ground
floor of Booz Allen's downtown Washington offices — it's the sum total of all
of these ideas around people, space, and technology, as well as a harbinger of
where the firm is headed.
In addition to being part of the network of hoteling space, Margaret Fogarty,
one of the designers from OTJ Architects — the firm that designed the Center
— told us that it's chock full of cutting-edge technology including wireless
chargers, projectors, and robots that allow employees from all over the world to
join their Washington-based colleagues and clients in meetings.
"The goal for this space was to take the standards that were already implemented,
but then push them further," said Fogarty. "In the conference room, for example,
we have screens that you can actually drag information from one wall to
the other. And then there are something like 98 sensors integrated into the
acoustical ceiling. And then another big part of the technology aspect of this was
making sure that the technology is flexible, so not only is [there a] main area here
for hoteling, day-to-day [work], but it's here for event space, so the desks can
move, and it can become event space."
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