Lab X Technologies and Stiernberg Consulting have teamed up to provide a new service for manufacturers – the Connectivity Readiness Check – a diagnostic program that helps companies answer the question, “Are you ready for connectivity?”
The Lab X and Stiernberg Consulting partnership will help AV manufacturers by assessing each one’s current situation and making specific, targeted recommendations for how that manufacturer can meet both technical and business challenges head on.
The CRC program is designed to be fast, confidential, and low cost – a natural next step in establishing or improving product development and business development strategies in the interoperability era.
Commercial and residential AV systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated and powerful. The transition from analog non-networked systems to digital networked systems is in full swing.
End users are becoming increasingly demanding. They expect plug and play, fully interoperable audio, video, and media systems that are intuitive, reliable, flexible, and low cost.
Lee Minich, President of Lab X Technologies, comments, “Gear manufacturers who offer only analog or otherwise incompatible AV components are losing market share and industry relevance. Competitors are passing them by with networkable gear that plays well with others.”
John Stiernberg, President of Stiernberg Consulting, adds, “Manufacturers who don’t yet have compatible state-of-the-industry products need to make fundamental business decisions now in response to a rapidly changing market. They need to fully embrace the technological, cultural, and business changes that are occurring, or risk extinction at the hands of more progressive competitors.”
Lee Minich adds, “AV gear that can’t operate on a network will be the Commodore Amiga or Sony Betamax of the next few years. That may sound ominous, but we believe there is no middle ground.”
The CRC is a diagnostic and prescriptive program geared to assessing a manufacturer’s readiness to develop, produce, and profitably sell AV gear (commercial or residential) that is networkable and/or interoperable. It delivers a confidential executive report and interactive discussion that includes objective technical and business assessments, plus recommendations in each area.