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October 3, 2007 In Archives By Advent

Fun at Work: Another Reason to Make Over Your Space

Con­cept Tech­nol­ogy was intrigued by Advent’s offer to take a look at their envi­ron­ment.  They are an out­sourced IT depart­ment with a strate­gic mes­sage of being an estab­lished and trust­wor­thy part­ner. Con­cept Tech­nol­ogy serves many small busi­nesses in the middle-TN area and cares about its team mem­bers and their fam­i­lies as well as their clients. Pres­i­dent James Fields wanted to con­vey this by mak­ing cap­i­tal improve­ments to his office space. He chal­lenged our team to develop their inter­nal brand­ing and mes­sag­ing in order to make it a “cool” place to work for the Con­cept employ­ees.  Fields says, “As an IT ser­vices firm, our clients do not come to us; we go to them. Our lobby brand­ing project serves to help us con­tinue to recruit top IT tal­ent to grow our team. It also con­tin­ues to rein­force the val­ues and prin­ci­ples that have set us apart from our com­pe­ti­tion.”

The Advent team loves chal­lenges like these. After walk­ing through the dis­cov­ery process together to ensure we under­stood their cul­ture, we brain­stormed a host of design ideas to gen­er­ate the desired fun atmosphere. Our makeover sug­ges­tions included col­or­ful and warm paint schemes along with key busi­ness themes (applied in cut vinyl), con­tem­po­rary sig­nage, cus­tom fur­ni­ture, wire man­age­ment and a cus­tom map show­ing the loca­tions of their clients. An LCD flat screen for an ongo­ing news feed and wall-mounted graph­ics were cho­sen to com­plete the new look. In addi­tion to the above ele­ments, the project included some floor­ing and struc­tural upgrades.

This suc­cess­ful makeover is a great reward for the hard-working Con­cept Team. Since this was for inter­nal cul­ture, there was not an aggres­sive time­line. Nev­er­the­less, the makeover was com­pleted in 6–8 weeks and has spiced up the space in the way Fields hoped it would.

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