The Benefits
“What this is about, ultimately, is what sets us apart: Thoughtful design at the outset, not taking existing solutions and trying to adapt them in ways that meet the challenge,” says Hintze. “When you engineer solutions for a specific challenge from jump, you wind up creating spaces that people find worth returning to — it’s what we sometimes call ‘making the commute worth it.’
“Effective hybrid solutions deliver experiences in which the technology fades away,” he adds. “It just works — and you don’t notice it.”
There are other benefits at work here, too — benefits that become more obvious over time. “IT departments soon understand how helpful these solutions can be,” says Mulpeter. “They’ll see faster deployment of the necessary system, fewer tickets to the help desk, and they’ll eventually realize that this infrastructure is ‘future-ready.’”
“For the C-suite, these kinds of solutions can create a real competitive advantage,” he adds. “When it’s easy for your people to come to work and simply get started without thinking about the technology at all, that’s terrific for retention and recruitment.” Of course, that means greater productivity, too. That leads to pluses like a measurable ROI for each solution and gives the whole organization more confidence when it’s time to scale up.
“Collaboration isn’t an afterthought. It’s engineered into every Crestron product,” says Hintze.
“And when collaboration works effortlessly in every space, it becomes cultural.”