Seamless Collaboration Regardless of Future Decisions By Barco
Meet Navistar. They are an international company headquartered in the Chicago area and they are a leading manufacturer of commercial trucks, buses, defense vehicles and engines. Like so many of us during the coronavirus lockdown, the team members at Navistar have become adept at videoconferencing from home. But recently, their team started returning to the office. They needed a solution that would allow them to continue to host video conferences that go beyond a single laptop and that includes the active participation of everyone in the room as well as of external participants. Hybrid solutions for hybrid offices Navistar required solutions to turn a number of their traditional conference rooms into full video conference rooms right away. With about 35% of their workforce back in the office, they still needed to connect those in the office with those working remotely. And while the laptop was a great tool for participating in video conferences, its camera and audio are designed for 22
one person at a time. Using ClickShare Conference to connect instantly and wirelessly to all the speakers, mics, and cameras in existing conference rooms, employees were able to still run the meeting from their laptop (and video conferencing software of choice), while capturing all the participants in the room on video with the room camera. An immediate need In addition to the hybrid workplace challenges many are facing today, Navistar had an added layer of urgency in getting video conference rooms set up. They were in merger talks with Volkswagen. This meant a lot of communication was required between department heads and within individual departments as well. Communication that couldn’t to be sent over email or handled over the phone. These meetings needed
