by Alan C. Brawn | Jun 11, 2020 | News
Now is the time for a confession. For many years, I was wrong or, at best, misguided about the commercial AV industry. In the 1990s, I was one of the original members of Hughes-JVC (HJT). After managing an AV integration company in St. Louis for several years, what...
by Alan C. Brawn | May 7, 2020 | News
In the not too distant past, IT and pro AV were separated by a pervasive feeling that there was no real necessity to converge the two. As both IT and pro AV evolve and grow, the two fields are now experiencing more integration and system overlap than ever before. A...
by Alan C. Brawn | Apr 9, 2020 | News
Fear is an unsettling feeling even when we are forewarned of what might be coming. Fear is to feel apprehension and uneasiness. You feel it beginning in the pit of your stomach, then up to your heart, and finally your head. It is an instinctive reaction embedded in...
by Alan C. Brawn | Mar 26, 2020 | News
Let’s begin by taking a little stroll down AV memory lane… the point is to give us historical context to understand from whence we came, and where we are today in commercial integration and audio visual design services. Our end game is to put all of the things...
by Alan C. Brawn | Feb 10, 2020 | Insights, News
We know that the recent mergers and acquisitions in commercial AV are all the buzz. While this may be unsettling to some, it is further evidence that our industry is changing. [related] Diversified became AV’s first $1 billion company when it acquired Sensory...
