Transforming Your Workspace

Most spaces are not designed to facilitate collaborative work by teams. Blackvan employs a mobile, customized environment designed specifically to facilitate collaborative learning and working. In addition, we use thoughtfully chosen technology and tools to further facilitate collaboration and accelerate work.

Whether in your own office space or offsite, our event or yours, Blackvan’s collaborative environments increase the speed and quality of your team’s work. Best of all, they can be set up quickly just about anywhere, and removed just as fast. Team of six? No problem. Team of sixty? No problem. Now you really don’t have an excuse to turn that ordinary group meeting space into a real group work space.

Don’t Just Think Big. Work Big!
Our workwalls invite everyone in the group to grab a marker and contribute to the work. Compare ideas side by side rather than flipping backwards and forwards through endless flipcharts. The workwalls allow people to get their ideas out into the open and instantly visible, making iteration a breeze. Draw. Erase. Iterate. Accelerate.

Add Technology and Go!
Enhance your workspace and work easier using state of the art gadgets and production equipment. Digitally photograph workwalls to archive or transmit your ideas outside the room. Build documents and work products as a team using large high resolution displays. Print outputs quickly, wirelessly, and in color, or print in poster-size to increase its impact and visibility.

A Typical Collaborative Environment Scenario

Your project team has two weeks before your deliverable is due. You’ve set up shop in a conference room. But instead of a paltry few flipchart pads, you have large expanses of whiteboards enveloping the work area – enough space for all your ideas to be considered instead of having to be erased due to lack of space. Your team uses the workwalls en masse, with several individuals contributing to the work simultaneously. A productive energy circulates through the room.

At one desk, in full view of all the writing and diagrams on the workwalls sit three of your team members. They are collaboratively building a PowerPoint document on a large widescreen monitor that allows them all to contribute. Later, a projector is used so the whole team can review the electronic document as well as practice for the next day’s executive presentation.

Proofs of the document are printed on an in-room high-speed color laser printer, wirelessly networked so anyone in your team can print from anywhere in the room.

A central server is set up so files can be backed up and shared quickly. Your team is working faster and better than they could have in a standard environment because now, the environment is helping them and bringing focus to what they do – actually adding value rather than being value neutral or worse, actually hindering them.

In the end, you have created a higher-quality deliverable, your team is less fatigued, and the room is returned to its normal state to be used for whatever day-to-day purpose it serves.