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Smart Conference Room
The first thing you need
to know about smart conference rooms and smart meeting rooms is that they not
only save you money but they also make you money.
Smart
business owners, executives and managers install smart conference rooms because
they make a great impression to customers and potential clients as well as
creating a positive work environment. But the economic and intellectual
benefits go far beyond those good looks. Here are seven powerful benefits of
well designed and installed smart conference rooms.
Seven Benefits of a
Smart Conference Room
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Increased sales: When you make a presentation to a prospective
or existing customer with a state-of-the-art electronic meeting room, you have
the opportunity to demonstrate that you are worthy of their business. You can
pitch your prospects seamlessly in multimedia. When you hold teleconference
meetings you can invite customers from around the corner and around the world
at almost no cost.
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Increased intellectual development:
No training program can be run today without the benefits of multi-media
presentations. Not only that, participants are more likely to develop new
ideas in the great working environment of a smart meeting room. People are
one of your greatest assets so why not increase their abilities?
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Increased idea capture:
With the use of smart boards, touch panels and cameras integrated with
computers, you are much more likely to be able to capture the ideas
(intellectual capital) that are generated in meetings. You are then able to
communicate and distribute those ideas globally – seamlessly. It sure beats
spending an hour copying down notes from a whiteboard or a flip chart…or not
bothering to do it at all. That one idea might be worth millions.
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Hold global meetings at low or no cost:
Computer based and teleconferencing system methods for virtual global meetings
are so affordable these days that it is hard to not justify having one or more
methods available. How many trips at $2,000 do you have to avoid to justify
this technology in your business? The answer is: not very many.
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Cost reduction: Not only can you reduce your travel expense,
but you can also make your meetings more effective and efficient thus saving
the otherwise wasted cost of people in the room. With just 15 mid-level
managers in a room you just lost $65 during the five minutes it took for
someone to fumble with three remote controls and confusing instructions to get
the presentation set up. Each meeting is costing you hundreds to thousands of
dollars per hour!
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Increased productivity and morale:
Would you rather be in a meeting in a traditional white-board room where the
back row can’t even see what’s going on or be in a comfortable space where
everyone is immediately engaged in the meeting content? People who are proud
of their workspaces are more productive. People who have pride spread their
high morale around to others.
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Seamless integration:
Make every user comfortable and look like an expert. A well designed smart
conference room can integrate and interface with your computer and phone
systems without any problem. Advanced systems and control programming can
reduce the task of setting up the most complex meetings to just one or a few
clear buttons. People can look like they know what they are doing instead of
fumbling with a system they don’t use every day.
So, when
you want to ask “How much does a smart meeting room cost?” stop for a moment and
ask this question instead: “What features should I build into my smart meeting
room to produce the greatest rate of return on my investment?”
Smart meeting rooms and
smart conference rooms are more affordable than ever today.
Common features for a
smart meeting room:
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projector – project your ideas |
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Viewing screen – manual or automatic projection screen |
| Flat
panel television – for presentations or news |
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Computer – interface with your people, content, network and the Internet |
| DVD
player - content |
| VHS
player - content |
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Speaker phone – talk with the world |
| Video
conference – conference with the world |
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Electronic white board – capture ideas |
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Microphones, amplifiers and speakers – make everyone clearly heard |
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Equipment racks – organize and hide the technology |
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Lighting control – set the scene with a single button |
| Other
advanced technology as desired |
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Advanced integrated remote controls – make it easy with one simple control |
The
beauty of a well designed and installed smart conference room is that the
technology is seamless and hidden. The content and purpose of the meeting is
the only important thing. The technology is there to help you communicate
easily and get your work done.
We can
help you design your smart conference room today. Join the 21st
century.
One call
installs it all. 716-472-9904
Park Place
Installations
Serving
Western
New York State
Email Park Place Installations
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| This smart conference room has:
hidden motorized projector and screen that withdraw into the ceiling as in
this picture. Easily display DVD, VCR, and computer presentations.
Includes a phone conference system. |
Here is the smart conference
room in action. With one touch of the "button" on the wireless touch
panel control, the screen and the projector descend from the ceiling.
All the electronic components are hidden in the cabinets. |
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