Digital Workplace Blog
Posted by Tod Hardin

From Boomers to Zoomers – Making Sure Your Workplace Technology Bridges the Generation Divide

In today's diverse workplace, finding ways to span multiple generations and ensure seamless communication and collaboration can be a challenge. From baby boomers to Gen Z, each generation brings its own preferences, habits and attitudes towards technology. However, with the right approach, workplace technology can bridge the generation gap, fostering productivity, innovation, and harmony among employees of all ages.

 It's not easy, but here's some top tips for getting this right:

7 Ways to Transform Information Technology Workplace

At Prysm (www.prysmsystems.com), we believe the hardest thing about work should be the work itself. Not the technology you use for meetings, not even the logistics of collaborating with your extended teams, whether you are trying to work from home or on travel. That's why our mission has been to remove the friction points that stand between you and getting important stuff done. We're passionate about creating products and solutions that help people work smarter — both together and alone, from office and home, on any display or device.

Prysm Makes a Splash at New York Digital Signage Week

Two weeks ago, Prysm participated in New York Digital Signage Week (NYDSW), hosting a variety of events – from press Q&As to a customer and partner open house – at our New York City CEC, located in the heart of bustling Manhattan. Throughout the week, we showcased how the Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) 6K Series is helping digital signage customers provide a unique and personalized experience for consumers.

Prysm’s LPD 6K Series WOWs Audience at Growth Leadership Accelerator

I have been friends with Mark Thompson, the #1 growth leadership coach, and his wife, career strategist Bonita Thompson for years, and ever since they saw the Prysm Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) 6K Series at our launch party in New York City, they have been eager to give the new technology a try.

Posted by Paige O'Neill

Three Ways to Improve Employee Productivity

It’s the beginning of a new year, and like many of you, I find this is a great time to jump-start my resolve to accomplish more and better — whether that means de-cluttering my desk, better managing my inbox or taking a hike to re-focus.

Posted by Paige O'Neill

Before You Select a Visual Collaboration Platform, Ask Yourself These Questions

 

Once you’ve realized how important it is to invest in a digital workplace and have secured the budget you need to move forward with your plan, it’s time to begin looking for a collaboration solution to support this new way of work.

Posted by Brianna Politzer

Force Multiplier: Digital Dexterity Equals Better Business Results

Prysm is laser-focused on helping companies develop digital transformation initiatives because we understand that leaders in the digital space are also revenue leaders. Case in point: a McKinsey & Company study1 found that companies that wholeheartedly embrace digital technology — strategically, not just tactically   pull in, on average, five times more revenue than digital laggards. No small potatoes. 

How to Create an Outstanding Remote Company Culture

The number of remote workers is rising by the year. With the advancement of modern technology and an increasing understanding of how flexibility can improve performance and morale, this is a trend that is likely to surge in popularity.

Posted by Brianna Politzer

The New Meeting: It's a Verb, Not a Noun

Research* shows that today's employees can spend up to 80% of their workdays collaborating. As a result, meetings — our primary method of working together  — have become mere waypoints in an ongoing collaborative process. This is a major shift from the way we used to think about meetings, which we regarded as events with a beginning and an end.

Posted by Paige O'Neill

CIOs: Stop Talking About Tech, Start Talking About Value

Remember scrambling like mad for new technology? 

I know people who camped out overnight to secure their place in line for the latest version of a smartphone. Others significantly overpaid or added their names to pre-order lists months in advance — just to make sure they had the most up-to-date device.

Posted by Paige O'Neill

How to Build the Business Case for a Digital Workplace

The other day, I heard a great story about how a colleague of mine got board approval to hire more than two dozen new staff members—and the whole negotiation took less than an hour. He used digital workplace technology to pull a remote team member into a board meeting on the fly and run ROI scenarios in real-time. Without being able to see the specific figures, the decision would have taken weeks and cost millions in potential revenue.

Posted by Brianna Politzer

A New Approach to the Gender Gap

When we talk about the gender/wage gap, we're most likely discussing how women and men with the same skills and experience should get paid the same salaries (inarguable). We usually attribute the gap to straight-up sexism, which is impossible to dispute. I know I've encountered plenty of that in the workplace. 

Posted by Dario Clark

Why You Should Get "Hands On" With Your Prysm Display

I spend a lot of my time at Prysm talking to existing customers about our products and services, especially when it’s time to renew their contracts. Invariably, the most enthusiastic customers are those who take advantage of our full solution — using Prysm Application Suite in concert with a Prysm touchscreen display.

Posted by Brianna Politzer

Four Ways to Get More Out of Your Prysm-Powered Meetings

I was talking to one of our sales reps the other day, and he told me something very interesting: he frequently speaks with Prysm users who don’t know about some of our best features! (Reminds me of a guy I used to date, but that’s a story for another time.)

Because I’m passionate about our product, I thought I’d take a couple of minutes to highlight some of the cool features that you might not know about or that you might not be used to their fullest extent.

Posted by Brianna Politzer

Meeting Technology 2017: The Struggle is (Still) Real

I had a chat the other day with an employee of a large, well-known tech company. She told me a story that really surprised me. She said that the meeting technology used at her company was so terrible that it was not only impacting productivity; it was actually making people hate their jobs.

Posted by Brianna Politzer

Lessons Learned from Sprint’s New Executive-Briefing Center

“We picked Prysm, in part, because it reflected our brand in being very innovative.” —John Heiman, Director of Experiential Marketing, Sprint

Recently, Prysm published a case study about Sprint’s newly renovated executive-briefing center (EBC) at its headquarters in Overland, Kansas, featuring Prysm Visual Workplace. The telecom giant’s choice of technology was symbolic of a movement in today’s enterprise — the transformation of the traditional “dog-and-pony show” into a consultative sale requiring authentic collaboration.

Posted by Jason Smith

Meetings 3.0:  Five Ways to Turn Initial Presentations Into Real Sales and Customer Relationships

It's the hallmark of rookie sales reps — the rote PowerPoint presentation, delivered to every new customer and prospect with little to no variation in content and no time for discovery or feedback. The one-size-fits-all presentation is unlikely to come across as personalized or inspired and rarely leads to a sale. When you're trying to impress a prospect with your understanding of their business and commitment to their success, this is simply a poor strategy.

Posted by Brianna Politzer

Five Reasons I Don't Want to Attend Your Meeting

While I love people, I can be downright curmudgeonly when it comes to meetings. After all, I'm a w-r-i-t-e-r. My work is typically solitary. In my mind, every moment I'm in a meeting is a moment I'm not writing. And considering the (lack of) value I've derived from and contributed to the meetings I've attended over the considerable length of my career, it's no wonder that each new invite has me scrambling for reasons not to attend. 

Posted by Brianna Politzer

Let's All Go Home and Get Some Work Done

The concept of remote work has been steadily evolving since the late 1960s.

Posted by Digital Marketing

What we can learn from the "collaboration generation"

Post contributed by Matt Proctor

I have been doing a lot of thinking about collaboration technology and work styles and how their evolution has been influenced by the multiple generations in today's workforce. While technology is always influenced by culture, it’s extra pronounced with collaboration technology, because it closely mirrors the way we have learned to communicate.