When diversity and inclusion training company The Right Track took to Twitter to discover how people felt about the topic, more than half associated it with political correctness, rather than as an opportunity for change. As Claudia Cooney, lead director of The Right Track, points out, this means in a…
You might have expected technical training to be decimated by a pandemic which stopped all in-person activities in their tracks overnight, but you’d be wrong. Far from damaging training, the pandemic appears to have acted as a catalyst for innovation, injecting life into both the providers and consumers of pro…
You might have expected technical training to be decimated by a pandemic which stopped all in-person activities in their tracks overnight, but you’d be wrong. Far from damaging training, the pandemic appears to have acted as a catalyst for innovation, injecting life into both the providers and consumers of pro…
Blue skies, sun and greenfields. What better way to describe the US market for AV as we look ahead? The same could not be said just one year ago when the future was marred by uncertainty as the virus raged and the economy faltered. To be sure, clouds of uncertainty…
No area of our personal and professional lives has remained untouched by the acute disruption caused by Covid, and that includes recruitment. While initial lockdown saw most current vacancies put on hold, the AV industry has continued to hire during the pandemic, albeit in new ways. The AV Magazine recruitment…
The effect of the pandemic on our AV industry is profound. It will take until 2022 to recover to 2019 levels, AVIXA’s IOTA report (including the November update) predicts, when industry peaked at $259 billion. Debates over the future of work and workplace design have raged for years and then…
The effect of the pandemic on our AV industry is profound. It will take until 2022 to recover to 2019 levels, AVIXA’s IOTA report (including the November update) predicts, when industry peaked at $259 billion. Asia Pacific is comfortably ahead of the curve, says Peter Hansen, economic analyst at AVIXA,…
A number of mergers and acquisitions hit the headlines this year. Video collaboration business Kinly acquired AVMI, US distributors Stampede and Starin were snapped up by Exertis parent DDC Technology and Midwich respectively, while Ricoh purchased German pro-AV integrator, Datavision to bolster its position as a digital services company. Consolidation…
Our strange new world has prompted a paradigm shift in how people work and how business gets done – the status quo well and truly re-imagined. “It is times like these when you know what makes a good employer,” says Deborah Jones, AV and IT sales manager at the Queen…
“The impact of Covid-19 has created an unprecedented disruptive situation,” says Chris Mcintyre-Brown, associate director at Futuresource, “motivating strategic change, which could drive sustainability and innovation, both culturally and technologically.” Empty streets, schools, offices, shops, bars and even churches. A life lived on Zoom. We quickly understood the coronavirus would…
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