MEETING & CONFERENCE FACILITIES HUDDLE UP!


It’s the workplace buzzword of 2017 and the surge in huddle rooms has been astonishing, with Wainhouse research reporting 45million small-to-medium


spaces in operation worldwide, Mary Ann de Lares Norris, VP EMEA of Oblong Industries discusses the flexible meeting phenomenon.


In the modern workplace, traditional boardrooms are being replaced by flexible spaces. Corporations recognise that the speed at which business is conducted is galloping and a new generation of employees need the right tools in which to engage with essential information, in an exciting and dynamic way, enabling them to get work done better and faster.


It’s not about chairing a meeting or following someone else’s static presentation slide by slide – today’s workforce is experiencing meeting democratisation. Thanks to empowering collaboration technologies, participants at every level of the business can now share input to a collective workspace, thus facilitating quick decision making and allowing team members to move quickly onto the next task.


Doing the Huddle Teamwork within a huddle room environment is only optimised when everyone in the room, or participating remotely is fully engaged, there is no hiding in this new world order. Collaboration technologies such as the Mezzanine 200 Series are specifically designed to empower all participants - whether in the space or joining remotely - to engage, share their content, and come to decisions as a team quickly.


Truly collaborative technology spurs meeting productivity by maintaining the creative momentum of the group and facilitating the equal sharing of ideas and data at every level. At Oblong, we call this ‘meeting democracy’. Huddle room technology should support multiple streams of content simultaneously, enabling all participants to share essential data in order to draw precisely informed conclusions.


Truly collaborative technology spurs meeting productivity.


“Doing the Huddle” requires organisations to invest in new tools and such investments must be able to show a tangible ROI, in order get the “green light” from finance. The Mezzanine Series, can significantly boost productivity within a company and actually pay for itself relatively quickly: business rewards are considerable, with an achievable business ROI of up to 226% in just three years. The Mezzanine 200 Series is a dual-screen configuration for small-to-medium-sized spaces, delivering advanced collaboration capabilities previously accessible only in large and exclusive meeting rooms. Mezzanine’s best features—concurrent viewing of up to ten shared devices, gestural interaction, and real-time control by multiple participants—are now available in a familiar dual-screen form factor.


A few considerations When considering the options in huddle room technology for your company, businesses should think about: size of the space, installation time, ease of operation, device compatibility and ‘plug and play’ connection for participants. Recent research carried out by Cascade Insights into how meetings work, shows that companies are losing up to 15 valuable minutes at the beginning of every meeting trying to get the technology in the room up and running. A solution that easily connects multiple devices to the workspace is essential to ensure time is not wasted and the speed of work maintains momentum.


Organisations are under competitive pressure to adopt innovation strategies and technologies to support this new way of working. The huddle room not only delivers a rise in productivity levels but will also attract the best people to your business – people that want to work smarter and get the job done.


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