Strategy in Action: How to Develop a Realistic Succession Plan
This session addresses owner and/or senior management transition strategy and eventual change of ownership.
Articles
India AVIXA Women's Council Q&A With Mahua Mukhopadhyay
Mahua Mukhopadhyay is part of a small and growing club of women leaders in India’s AV industry.
Crestron’s Dan Jackson Demystifies the “Internet of Things”
Crestron's Manager, Research and Development Dan Jackson describes his role at the company as “technological visionary.”
How This Site Manager Learned New PM Skills
When Connor Kelly, CTS®, a site manager at Johnson Audio Video, first began working in AV, it was his background as a working drummer, interest in sound gear and experience with structured cabling that pointed him in the direction of a career in AV.
Jesse Scarborough on Young AV Professionals
A year into his AV career, 24-year-old system design engineer Jesse Scarborough, CTS®, chair of the new Young AV Professionals Committee, talked to AVIXA about his entry into the AV industry and his thoughts on how the industry can appeal to millennials and the next-generation AV workforce.
Interpreting India’s Exponential AV Industry Growth: Q&A With Ratnesh Javeri, CTS-D
The audiovisual market in the Indian subcontinent is projected to reach an astonishing US$5.4 billion by the end of 2016, according to the InfoComm Market Definition and Strategy Study for India.
Revision Update: ANSI/AVIXA2M-2010 Standard Guide for Audiovisual Systems Design and Coordination Processes
At the Standards Plenary at InfoComm 2016, members of the 2M-2010 revision task group talked about it and here are a few key Q&A’s to give you an understanding of the direction it's going in.
AVIXA Standards and Courtroom Drama
Self-professed AV/IT nerd, Donald Palmer wins the award for the longest job title: A/V Management Analyst for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Facilities and Security Office, Space and Facilities.
Sneak Peek at AVIXA’s Rack Building Standard
Hot on the heels of last year's first standalone AVIXAstandard (F501.01:2015 Cable Labeling for Audiovisual Systems), AVIXA's newest standard will address the need for uniformity and standardization in audiovisual rack building.
Networking in AV: Learning the Ropes
Recent graduate Victoria Barela, CTS®, earned her CTS certification just two months after graduating from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in Live and Installed Sound.
Speak Up — Advice From Not Your Average VP
Lloyd B. Ranola, Vice President at the San Francisco-based acoustical, audiovisual and telecommunications consulting firm Charles M. Salter Associates, Inc., admits he doesn’t look like your average VP.
Contract Training Proves a Winning Solution for EMS
Education Management Solutions (EMS) Project Operations Manager Todd Clauser, CTS®, recently led the charge to get 19 staff members CTS certified — from installers to sales personnel, software developers and members of the IT team
Think Technology Second, Learning First: Education AV Design Q&A with Zane Au, Shen Milsom & Wilke
Sponsored by the University of Hong Kong, AVIXA on Campus takes place on 24 May, 2016. The university classroom is moving beyond the simple one-way lecture, a standard practice that hasn’t advan
Meeting Goals and Celebrating a New CTS
After 18 years in the live events/rental and staging side of the business and a subsequent move into integration two years ago, salesperson Alexis B. La Broi, MBA, CTS® — now a systems consultant for Sterling, Virginia-based Avitecture — set herself a new target: to finally try for her CTS certification.
AV Standards: Past, Present and Future
RTS Solutionz Vice President of Engineering Joy Caspar, CTS®, has been working in AV for longer than she will care to admit.
Standards in Action
Since the beginning of the year, Electro Acoustics, a Texas-based APEx integrator, has been able to reduce the number of warranty callbacks by 41 percent.
Value of CTS in Fast-Growing Market
It's coincidental, but symbolic, that the first two people to gain their CTS®-I and CTS-D certifications in 2016 hail from India.
Ahead of the Game With CTS
Wasting no time with his new year's resolutions, Joel Vugteveen, Project Manager at Chicago-based installer TVTI, started the year with his nose in a study guide.
CTS in Norway
Although Norway ranks as one of the smallest European countries in terms of population, it nevertheless has a thriving AV industry.
Just One More Pixel: Pushing the Boundaries of Technology with CTS
When Alan Taylor, CTS®, joined UK systems integrator avsnet in early 2015, one of the first things on his mind was to get the company’s 50 or so technical and service staff CTS-certified.