A new resource is SDM’s BirdDog Career Center, to help you find your next visionary. Planning for this month’s cover story about game changers got me thinking about what a game changer means to me and how I’ve experienced them both personally and professionally. In my adult life, having children and becoming a mother was the most obvious game changer… all previous priorities seem trivial compared to being responsible for a young person’s life.
Diebold Inc. earned the coveted Central Station of the Year Award in CSAA’s Excellence Awards competition, it was announced yesterday during the awards presentation held at ESX in Charlotte, N.C. Diebold operates monitoring centers located in Uniontown, Ohio and Honolulu, Hawaii.
The industry’s largest security companies are seeing their markets change from stalled to hesitant to active; while the SDM 100 itself is changed to allow ranking of integrators with RMR.
Turning the corner on the 2010 economy was like telling off a friend who had it coming — you got to offload some of the poison, and you could move forward with a lesser burden. While the performance of the security industry in 2010 was less than stellar, there were some generally positive economic indicators in the first two quarters of 2011 that hold promise.
The once crisp line between the black and white of security dealer and systems integrator is definitely more blurry, and the question begs to be asked — Is there even a line anymore?
Many third-party central stations are waiting for dealer demand to escalate before offering hosted and managed access control services. Those that already offer it describe how it works.
There are fewer than 3,000 dealer-owned central stations in the industry, but there are tens of thousands of security dealers operating without a central station who offer monitoring through the use of third-party central stations.
Did anyone know that the folks at systems integrator Convergint Technologies wrote their own lyrics and choreographed a dance routine to Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation”?
Preparations for the Super Bowl were taking place around-the-clock at Dallas Cowboys Stadium when, amidst the excitement happening on the field, the Electronic Security Association (ESA) held its Leadership Awards presentation on a level of the stadium that overlooks the magnificent playing field and the world’s largest LED display made by Mitsubishi at 72-ft. high by 160-ft. wide on each of its two sides.
If one could add another structure to the list of the 7 Man-Made Wonders of the World, it might be Dallas Cowboys Stadium, an architectural and technological marvel that opened in 2009 and was host to last month’s Super Bowl game. The stadium was also host to a unique event put on by Bosch Security Systems recently, where it welcomed more than 400 guests for a day of learning, networking and entertainment. Bosch’s Ultimate Sound & Security Challenge included product demonstrations, tours, and educational sessions covering the latest security and communications systems.
The security industry is ready and able to put growth on the books in 2011, but dealers must take command of conditions and lead their own way.
I like the change of seasons that living in Illinois offers, but it’s this time of year — late February (the time of this writing) and early March — that makes me wish the season would change more quickly.