Latest headlines: Mark Coxon on the concept of “Work Havens,” Scott Tiner on AV and exercise and Bryce Dunn on protecting the supply chain.
December 7, 2021 | Volume: 7 | Issue: 23
Happy Tuesday! I sure am glad the holidays are coming up. What new AV equipment is on your Christmas list? Speaking of AV equipment, we’ve got a few columns this week covering a range of topics like optimizing our lives with AV products and resolving supply chain issues.
“Are You Offering Work Havens?” is our first column this week and takes a moment to reminisce on the things we miss from working in person. Written by Mark Coxon, it also offers ideas on how to recreate those experiences in our own home offices. What exactly is a “Work Haven,” and how can you create one yourself?
Another column by rAVe writer Scott Tiner looks at how the exercise industry pivoted to provide virtual exercise capabilities. What can we learn from companies such as Peloton that offered in-home exercise equipment before the pandemic? Learn what they did and why it was beneficial in “Learning From the Exercise Industry.”
I have seen some chatter about commercial integrators offering services for home offices, but the response is typically that these are residential applications and not in the commercial integrator’s core capability, nor are the projects large enough to warrant new entry. To that I say, maybe our thinking is too small. What if we developed a strategy to build “Work Havens?”
As we begin to realize that COVID-19 will become endemic, perhaps becoming less dangerous, but never fully going away, we also should realize that these types of choices will continue to need to be made. In October I wrote about how InfoComm, and other trade shows, should embrace those people who make the choice not to attend. This month I have been thinking about other business opportunities that the AV industry could find in this ongoing environment.
Supply chains — once solely the domain of product managers and procurement specialists — are now being discussed in the evening news as disruptions impact the availability of a wide range of consumer and commercial goods. Semiconductors, in particular, have been affected by a significant uptick in demand that has not yet been met by a corresponding increase in supply.
