http://blog.mersive.com/av-everywhere-coming-open-spaces/
1) Meetings will start differently.
When you remove physical barriers to rooms and more seamlessly introduce collaboration spaces into an environment, they will be used more often. A secondary and a possibly more important effect is that these rooms will be used on demand.
There is an invisible overhead (time) to scheduling a meeting, walking to a dedicated space, and waiting for your colleagues to arrive physically or virtually. This overhead would dissipate if the three decision makers could simply decide to walk from the water cooler to a space that could be used for an ad-hoc meeting. These types of meetings will require new ways to get started. NFC from a mobile device to launch the appropriate technology and not a calendar invite for example.
Unscheduled meetings have been shown to be more creative and, surprisingly, more outcome driven than regularly scheduled events. If you are developing products for business you can safely assume that the majority of work in the next decade will take place outside of scheduled traditional meetings in a conference room. Products for the workplace need to accommodate that new trend.
1) Meetings will start differently.
When you remove physical barriers to rooms and more seamlessly introduce collaboration spaces into an environment, they will be used more often. A secondary and a possibly more important effect is that these rooms will be used on demand.
There is an invisible overhead (time) to scheduling a meeting, walking to a dedicated space, and waiting for your colleagues to arrive physically or virtually. This overhead would dissipate if the three decision makers could simply decide to walk from the water cooler to a space that could be used for an ad-hoc meeting. These types of meetings will require new ways to get started. NFC from a mobile device to launch the appropriate technology and not a calendar invite for example.
Unscheduled meetings have been shown to be more creative and, surprisingly, more outcome driven than regularly scheduled events. If you are developing products for business you can safely assume that the majority of work in the next decade will take place outside of scheduled traditional meetings in a conference room. Products for the workplace need to accommodate that new trend.
