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corporation in Toronto , and it ’ s won awards for creating a transformational workspace .” Koechlin explains what a transformational workspace is : “ Most of us can picture the classic miles and miles of cubicles , and everybody has a desk or an office assigned to them . Deloitte has 19 floors of downtown real estate , and there ’ s not one office , boardroom or workstation assigned to anybody . Every day thousands of people arrive for work , scan the open space , decide what kind of work they ’ re trying to do that day , what kind of mood they ’ re in , and select a place to go to work . It ’ s the new way of thinking about how you arrange an office to enhance collaboration and productivity .”

Mehr cites a leading pharmaceutical company with a presence in over 50 countries as a particularly successful project . AVI- SPL was asked to manage its video and AV devices , as well as transform all the back and front end systems . It was done in a seamless , transparent

way to the point where nobody noticed .

“ As the AV devices were removed , there was nothing for managing and monitoring these devices that became unknown ,” Mehr explains . “ The interface , the front end , everything remained exactly the same - the only difference was the vendor ’ s name on a device , like Crestron , for example .”

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