As corporate real estate firms have been consolidating space to reduce operating costs and improve flexibility, a surge of millennials have entered the workforce. These employees are accustomed to accessing various types of technology across environments, including home, school, and work. As a result, millennials expect such resources from their employers and working environment, and the design community has begun to creatively accommodate the evolution of the conference room.
There is much confusion in the industry with the terminology of “web conferencing” and “video conferencing.” They are often interchanged and in reality, they are two different conference solutions.
As the Director of Systems Design Engineering for IMS, Mike Herb's responsibility is to assist the sales team with their client’s needs assessment, create a system design for that initiative, and pen a scope of work.
The truth: Your meetings are costing you… Say you have 10 employees making $70K/year. They are getting paid $35/hour. Put them all in a room for 1 hour and that meeting just cost you $350…BUT a survey conducted by Harris Poll found that U.S. employees spend about 40% of their time at work in meetings. Now you are spending about $5,600/week on those 10 employees going to meetings.
Michael Killen has contributed nearly 6 years of his career to IMS Technology Services as both an Assistant and Lead Installation Technician. Michael’s role at IMS is one where he leads the installation crews at our customer locations to ensure that their systems are installed correctly, to all codes, and to the quality that IMS strives to deliver in the marketplace.
Do you want to make your business networking more effective?
Brendon Stevens has a combined career of 13 years with IMS Technology Services in roles serving both the Systems Integration and Event Staging departments. Brendon’s role at IMS is one where he leads the installation crews at our customer locations to ensure that their systems are installed correctly, to all codes, and to the quality that IMS strives to deliver in the marketplace.
Chris Rhoads has been a dedicated contributor to the IMS Team and process for the last two years, but has been working in the industry since 2005. Chris’s role at IMS is one where he leads the installation crews at our customer locations to ensure that their systems are installed correctly, to all codes, and to the quality that IMS strives to deliver in the marketplace.
In recent months we have noticed a growing trend that is challenging the technology industry, especially our niche of audio visual: truncation of project timelines. In my conversations around InfoComm and other industry events this year, this does not seem to be limited to just our customers or just our region. Based on what I have heard from our contemporaries, companies like IMS are all reporting the same problem affecting us in the Northeast Region.
Brian Sappington has been a dedicated contributor to the IMS Team and process for the last three years. Brian is one of the faces of the organization in the event that a customer’s system fails or is malfunctioning. He is one of our heroes that keep our customer systems functioning and online as much as possible.