What you need to know about Microsoft CVI
Cloud Video Interoperability (CVI) has recently become a more commly used term in the world of video conferencing. But what is it really?
Efficient use of square meters: designing activity-based workspaces
The way we work together has been constantly changing over the years. We began by assigning each employee a fixed workspace. In the time that followed, we worked in spacious open-office environments — but that trend is also fading. Now, different spaces in a building are designed to match the type of activity that we want to perform. In other words: activity-based workspaces. Research by “Leesman” shows that activity-based working has a positive effect on collaboration and productivity. This blog will explore considerations required to choose the right activity-based workspaces for your office.
Working smart in times of travel bans and restrictions
Deal with company travel bans and travel restrictions, meet with your colleagues wherever you are. A smarter office incorporating video meeting solutions at work and at home can enable you to keep your operations running in challenging times.
Crestron Flex - a Microsoft Teams Rooms solution, everywhere
As a provider of Microsoft Teams Rooms, cloud solutions, hardware and monitoring, Crestron offers everything needed for smart and well-functioning meeting rooms. In this post, we explore the benefits of Crestron Flex for Microsoft Teams.
Virtual collaboration is more than a good internet connection
In order to make a productive and effective contribution to business objectives, good cooperation between colleagues, peers and customers is essential. Supported by trends such as: development in the labor market, technological progress and the fact that many organizations are increasingly active on an international stage, makes it so that collaboration is increasingly taking place at a distance. As a result, more and more offices are increasingly being designed for this. Of course, remote collaboration will never match on-site collaboration.
The 2025 manager needs to work based on trust
The way in which we work today, is a lot more dynamic than before. Nowadays we go to the office to meet colleagues, to work together or because we need access to technology that is more advanced than our laptop or mobile phone. Office spaces are adapted to this and are much better attuned to the activities that we want to carry out, which are what we call activity-based workspaces.
Technological trends we will see at the office in the next five years
Progressive organizations will continue to improve their office environment, as to remain an attractive employer for both existing and new employees. But, also to be able to work increasingly efficiently and thus be more productive. Good cooperation in this is essential. The spaces in a building are increasingly being adapted to this. And the following technological trends will make a positive contribution to this in the next five years.
Smart Monitoring: Setting IT Free
Supporting your video conferencing, AV and UC environment alongside every other piece of technology in an organization can be challenging for IT departments. Duncan MacPherson explains how Smart Monitoring can ease the burden.
3 labor market trends which will impact the way we work together
Having a laptop, mobile phone and access to the internet is often enough for most knowledge workers to be able to do their work when and where they want and to be able to contact their colleagues via the telephone, a video call or by collaboration using platforms such as Microsoft Teams. Technological progress makes this possible and easier, but labor market trends certainly affect how fast this progress occurs. Therefore, we will cover three significant ones in this blog.
