The Future of Work/Learning Spaces
more energy and pride in our employee
base,” said Wendy Jones, Senior Vice
President of Global Operations at eBay.
Collaboration technologies, then,
are the glue that holds together this en-
ergized, mobile, tech-savvy workforce.
“Video-based collaboration will fuel im-
proved connection and communication
among employees in the workplace
and remote colleagues, clients, and
to support the next great killer app
or workgroup paradigm, whatever it
might be.
New York accounting firm Cohn-
Reznick built what it calls an “Inno-
vation Lab” in its Manhattan office,
giving clients the ability to brainstorm
business solutions with CohnReznick
staff quickly and efficiently through a
combination of AV systems, proprietary
nizations that successfully nurture an
innovation culture realize increased
profit compared to their peers. Unfortu-
nately, many growth companies lack the
capability, including access to the latest
tools and frameworks and the trained
professionals to implement them, to
create breakthrough growth,” says
Keith Denham, Managing Principal and
National Director of CohnReznick Ad-
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consultants,” says Craig Park, Principal
Consultant at The Sextant Group.
But for all the technical acumen of
today’s workers, and their aversion to
outdated business practices, collabo-
rative audiovisual solutions deployed
in a modern office must be easy to
use. There’s no time for onerous bug
fixes or downtime. Employees already
have many screens in their lives. They
expect multi-screen, dynamic work-
spaces that they can enter instantly for
visual immersion. And the AV imple-
mented today must be agile enough
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software, and data. Software that lets
users edit and manipulate documents,
videos, graphics, and more on mul-
tiple displays, plus a matrix of large
touchscreens, form the foundation.
The space also includes cameras for
videoconferencing and microphones
embedded in the room’s ceiling to
provide pickup coverage for all seats.
The company put additional videow-
alls in its Chicago and New York City
offices so remote participants could
join sessions.
“Studies suggest that those orga-
visory. “We created the Innovation Lab
to help clients build a renewed business
culture that’s fast and nimble, seizing
opportunities before the competition,
to get ahead and stay there.”
According to CohnReznick, its
teams are now 60 percent faster at
solving problems, and from an opera-
tions standpoint, they have become 45
percent more cost-efficient since im-
plementing the Lab’s AV solution. And
as good as the remote-collaboration ca-
pabilities have been, CohnReznick has
found that design and strategy work is