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Can You Find Your Home Sweet Home in This Unpredictable Housing Market?
In the fluctuating landscape of the current unpredictable housing market, potential homebuyers are navigating high mortgage rates, volatile economic conditions, housing changes and a tightening inventory. Home prices have shown a slight decline with the median existing-home sales price dropping 0.9% to $375,700 in March compared to a year ago. It’s the second month […]
Legal Battles and Uncertainty Surrounding Affordable Care Act’s Preventative Services Coverage
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has faced numerous legal challenges since its inception, leaving its future uncertain. Texas’s courts recently overturned insurance provider coverage requirements for certain preventative health services, altering the landscape of coverage. However, a higher court has now blocked that overturning order, reinstating insurers’ obligation to cover those services. While not all […]
Reimagining Retail with IKEA Digital Transformation & New Store Formats
In the swiftly evolving retail industry, the conversation around digital transformation and retail technologies is more urgent than ever. Amid this tech-driven revolution, IKEA is pioneering a remarkable journey. The stakes are high, as IKEA aims to shift from being primarily a physical retailer to incorporating a substantial omni-channel presence. As of 2016 only […]
The Catalog… What’s it all about?
A catalog is a collection or record of items that is organized systematically, normally in a certain order, and usually includes information about each item. It is common practice to arrange and show information in catalogs, which can be either physical or digital. Some common types of catalogs include: Product Catalogs, Library Catalogs, Online Catalogs […]
Studio Insights: Studio Acoustics & Noise Performance
Productions focus on aesthetics and functionality, but what about sound? This is often overlooked but is equally important to create seamless productions. Peter Provost, President and Director of Design of Provost Studio, and Steve Haas, CEO and Principal Consultant of SH Acoustics, talked with host Tyler Kern about reasons behind this. Clients may accidentally forget […]
10 Best Practices for Effective Online Learning
Switching from teaching in-person to teaching online presents both unique challenges and opportunities. Relay Graduate School of Education runs an online campus alongside in-person campuses and came up with 10 practical tips from their veteran online faculty to support those making the switch to the online environment for live online learning instruction. 1. Prepare links […]
10 Best Practices for Effective Online Learning
Switching from teaching in-person to teaching online presents both unique challenges and opportunities. Relay Graduate School of Education runs an online campus alongside in-person campuses and came up with 10 practical tips from their veteran online faculty to support those making the switch to the online environment for live online learning instruction. 1. Prepare links […]
How to Reinforce a Customer-Centric Culture in B2B Businesses
It’s not too much of an exaggeration to say that a business can stand or fall on the strength of its customer service. But what are the best ways to reinforce your customer-centric culture? Building your business around your customers may sound like a no-brainer, but it’s vital not to let complacency creep in. You’re […]
Live Beautifully: Looking for a Fresh Design? Knock Down a Wall!
Patti Johnson loves the juxtaposition of the before and after comparison of a room when she finishes a design. “I really like to take walls out,” Johnson told Daniel Litwin on a recent episode of Live Beautifully. “Maybe a wall could have been placed better, and we can improve traffic flow – it’s just going […]
Why Architects Need a Dedicated Audiovisual Partner
At its core, architecture is a creative field – architects seek to create stunning and lasting spaces, and that process can feel like an extremely personal one. However, architects shouldn’t let this result in them attacking a project alone. By leveraging the technical expertise of a professional audiovisual (AV) integrator, architects can engage in a collaborative […]
Conversations from The EDGE: Treating the IT Ecosystem as an Actual Ecosystem
The process of integrating new systems into existing ecosystems is detailed, by its very nature. On today’s installment of Service Logic’s Conversations from The EDGE, host Sean Heath spoke with Greg Crumpton and StrategITcom’s Carrie Goetz to discuss the nature of an IT ecosystem and the challenges that present themselves during these implementations. “I […]
How Zoning and Planning Departments are Restricting Architects
Most people would agree that some degree of rules and regulations are necessary to maintain order in a society. However, sometimes we find ourselves bumping up against a rule that wasn’t intended to cause us frustration or written with us in mind, but it’s affecting us nonetheless. That’s the situation that architect Bob Borson currently […]