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Entertainment Stadiums: How Technology Can Help You Manage Your Assets

Entertainment Stadiums How Technology Can Help You Manage Your Assets
Entertainment Stadiums How Technology Can Help You Manage Your Assets

Entertainment Stadiums: How Technology Can Help You Manage Your Assets

Technological advancements are making strides in practically every industry our economy is built upon, and stadiums are no exception. Applications, tools, and programs are constantly evolving in ways that serve stadium managers, staff, and visitors alike.

Incorporating asset management technology, security upgrades, and data analytics into everyday stadium operations can increase work efficiency, improve guest satisfaction, and present managers with new cost-saving strategies.

Inventory Management

Asset management technology can significantly aid in accurate inventory management for stadiums. Various asset tracking tools allow stadium managers to monitor inventory levels, find cost-saving opportunities, account for damaged items, and enhance administrative control. This way, inventory is constantly updated and maintained to reflect accurate numbers (especially in terms of purchases, inventory usage, and disposal). Inventory management also promotes precise reporting so that management teams can predict when reorders are needed.

Security Protocols

Asset management technology can improve stadium operations by adding supplemental security measures to an already developed security system. Integrated cameras and sensors work to prevent unauthorized access to specific stadium parts by monitoring stadium traffic and triggering a notification when movement is detected in off-limits areas.

Added security measures free security personnel to invest more time and effort into ensuring guest safety, preventing theft, and improving visitor traffic flow.

Reports and Processes

Stadium technology can streamline data collection as it relates to facility operations. With current, organized data, generating reports becomes much simpler than manually. As reports generate, analytical tools can be used to determine patterns, interpret data, and create notifications when a process or incident requires management’s attention.

These real-time reports and notifications are essential to keeping all staff members up to speed on maintenance needs, inventory levels, and asset locations. Staff members can save time and improve productivity while completing work orders.

Equipment Lifecycles

Technological integration with asset management tools can do far more than manage inventory and track asset locations. With these applications, stadium managers can also access asset-related information at the touch of a button. Stadium software stores information about where an asset is located, the date it was last maintained, the next scheduled maintenance date, warranty information, current functions, and projected disposal or decommission. Asset management software tracks the entire lifecycle of stadium equipment.

Remaining current with technological developments in your industry not only keeps management informed about operations concerns, new solutions, and opportunities to improve the way the entire stadium functions. It also enables owners, management, and staff to work more cohesively toward adopting technologies that will satisfy the greatest need.

How Technology is Revolutionizing the Entertainment Sector

How Technology is Revolutionizing the Entertainment Sector
How Technology is Revolutionizing the Entertainment Sector

How Technology is Revolutionizing the Entertainment Sector

The entertainment industry is always growing and changing. As society transforms, it takes the industry with it – because entertainment reflects who we are as a worldwide community and where we’re at in relation to development and social standings. That’s why it’s important to look at the ways technology has impacted business operations and other aspects of life in recent years.

Technology has come a long way in the entertainment sector, in many different forms. A big part of that has to do with the steady demand that’s tied into the large profit that can be found by using technology in the industry. In short, technological integration is never a bad idea when you’re looking to advance.

Whether you’re sitting amidst a crowd in a convention center or among your family on your living room couch, there’s a good chance that you’re utilizing technology advancements as you consume your favorite form of entertainment.

The Technology Revolution

Here are a few ways that technology is changing the entertainment industry for good:

  • Accessibility is King

No matter where your audience is if they have a phone signal, they’ll be able to access whatever content you’re releasing. With tools like Instagram Live, you can access an audience located worldwide and encourage them to engage with your content – whether in the form of likes, dislikes, or comments. Streaming is one of the biggest leaps that technology has taken, as it creates a sizable profit and is capable of reaching far and wide.

  • Collaboration and Cooperation

Since technology is so integrated within the entertainment sector, it’s no surprise that most everyone uses it to move forward. For this reason, collaboration and cooperation have taken a front seat when it comes to all sorts of projects. It has allowed us to become interconnected as a society by laying the foundation to work with whoever you want, wherever you want. Distance and/or lack of funding issues are no longer a barrier for entertainers.

  • Improved Visuals

Graphics and visuals play a huge role in the entertainment sector, and technology has made a noticeable impact on their quality. The improvement of these concepts has lent to the prevalence of virtual reality and augmented reality innovations, along with added nuance and clarity to a variety of games.

Entertainment for the Future

At Trax Analytics, we’re focused on how we can innovate important aspects of life with technological advances. To learn more about us, get in touch today.

What’s the Pulse of your operation?- by Scott Salamina

What’s the Pulse of your operation?- by Scott Salamina
What’s the Pulse of your operation?- by Scott Salamina

What’s the Pulse of your operation?- by Scott Salamina

Pulse: “a rhythmical throbbing of the arteries as blood is propelled through them, typically as felt in the wrists or neck.” Or “a single vibration or short burst of sound, electric current, light, or other wave.”

When we began listening and understanding facilities operations, our goal was to find the pulse of what makes it unique. Every team and operation has a character factor that ignites the pulse direction of the operation. What two things do pulse and proactiveness have in common? They function in a rhythmical throbbing of wanting to excel and grow their capabilities. Trax Analytics takes pride in finding this pulse and gearing our solutions to follow a similar rhythmical approach to allow associates to grow their capabilities and operators’ progressive operational development.

Proactiveness can mean and be interpreted in several ways, but this action’s root is pro. Signs of a proactive operation can operate with pivots and problems at a moment’s notice. Trax Analytics connects associates and facilities with an interphase that allows associates to guide their activities and develop their operational pulse. Like all operations, you want the flexibility to pivot when operational requests demand it. When these pivots occur, we rely on our exceptional expertise and planning to produce the intended outcomes. Trax Analytics takes advantage of your operational pivots and provides quantitative data from the associate’s experience and guest feedback. This data allows operators to review, modify, and develop new initiatives to achieve operational goals.

Operational regressions facility operators tend to deal with are time management, operation development, and associate turnover. Managing these unique facilities’ footprints is what motivates, unites, and drives our operational pulse. Trax Analytics develops tools to allow operators to focus on operational growth by enhancing and developing associates’ interactions with the facility. These interactions build independence, accountability, and operational growth within department operations. Growth is best captured when successes are a direct reflection of operational practices. Proactiveness is captured in the daily opportunity to develop and lead your team operation for tomorrow’s opportunities.

The building that is proactiveness in operation must have divergent creativity to allow internal growth and operational scalability. Knowing your operation’s day-to-day production output creates opportunities for associate development, new scope initiatives, and, most importantly, time management. Trax Analytics connects people and spaces to interphase that pushes operators to make the best possible decision for a unique guest experience—targeting the day-to-day interactions and data as a tool to make pivotal decisions for new opportunities. Facilities leadership roles are genuinely a privilege that ignites many of our career passions, although many will never understand. We find joy in the pivots and reminisce on the day-to-day wins our teams accomplish. Leading a facilities operation that champions growth, development, and creativity are the ones that radiate a pulse that spreads throughout the facility and is felt through the smiles of your peers and guest. Reflect, review, and cherish your teams’ daily wins as they are pulses that carry your operation forward. 

How to Boost Employee Morale?

How to Boost Employee Morale
How to Boost Employee Morale

How to Boost Employee Morale?

Employee morale is the glue that keeps the workplace together, whether your workplace is a convention center, office, restaurant, or anything in between. It is the outlook and attitude of your employees combined with the degree of satisfaction related to their job.

Benefits of Good Employee Morale

Your business can accomplish nearly anything with good employee morale on every rung of the ladder. Business operations are at an all-time high when employees and managers work in tandem, cooperating effectively and aiming for a common goal.

Good employee morale is the key to retaining employees. When employees and managers feel valued and supported, your business is less likely to experience high turnover.

A few other benefits of good employee morale include:

  • High employee motivation
  • Exemplary work performance
  • Improved communication
  • Higher productivity
  • Increased collaboration
  • Increased engagement

Ways to Boost Morale

Now that you understand the importance of employee morale, here are a few examples of boosting it in the workplace, from the big boss to managers to part-time workers and everyone in between.

  • Cultivate Your Culture From the Top Down

Boosted employee morale starts with the leaders of the company. Leading by example is the best way to show employees how to act. If the CEOs value staying positive and creating an enjoyable work environment, such a mindset will infiltrate the rest of the company.

  • Always Present Challenges

A job that’s too easy is never a good thing because no one does good work when they’re bored. On the other hand, jobs that are too difficult make people feel frustrated and discouraged. Find a happy medium between these two concepts and present challenges – but make sure employees are equipped with the right tools, training, and support they need to face them.

Regularly challenge your employees with tasks they’ve never done before, like tackling new technological integration. After they finish, they’ll feel good about their higher-ups having faith in their abilities.

  • Measure Your Morale

Get feedback from employees to discover areas in which your company can still improve. Letting your employees know they’re heard boosts morale directly and allows you to improve where they really count.

Employee Morale at Your Company

There’s almost nothing more important than good employee morale in front of the symbolic camera and behind the scenes. Positive company culture is what allows your business to see as much success as possible while knowing that every employee is seen, heard, and valued.

How Tech is Shaping the Stadium Experience

How Tech is Shaping the Stadium Experience
How Tech is Shaping the Stadium Experience

How Tech is Shaping the Stadium Experience

In years past, watching a game at the stadium was an experience to covet simply because TV screens were small and held a low-quality picture. But now, with TV screens more significant than ever and personal entertainment becoming increasingly advanced, stadiums have stepped up their game to draw fans out.

New pieces of technology are reshaping the fan experience, and a sports survey conducted by Oracle shows that fans are embracing the new technology.

Shaping the Experience

With the implementation of immersive concepts like VR and AR, fan engagement technology is more futuristic than ever – but there are still strides to be made. For now, here are three technological aspects shaping the stadium experience for fans all over the world.

With the implementation of smart restrooms, stadiums worldwide can meet guests’ needs in a cleaner and more pleasant way. By monitoring restroom data and the number of users, technology can ensure that restrooms are cleaned promptly and kept well-stocked with toilet tissue, hand soap, hand sanitizer, and paper towels.

  • Making the Game Clearer and Closer

As we stated, people favor staying home to watch the game because the camera angles are better. Many would prefer to watch from their couch where they can see all that’s going on rather than sit in the nosebleeds without being able to see a thing.

But sitting at home takes away from experience, so stadiums are finding a way to bring the action closer – even if you’re up in the nosebleeds. Take SoFi Stadium, for example, where the Chargers and Rams play. A 90,000 square foot LED display is installed there that encircles the entire stadium. With that, no one can miss a thing.

  • Preordering Food and Drinks

Trying to squeeze your way through fellow fans in the middle of the action to find the concession stand is one of the downsides of going to a game in person. Digital ordering makes it so you don’t have to miss a thing – just preorder your food and drinks and decide when you want to enjoy them.

  • Mobile Tickets

Printed tickets are stressful. It’s so easy to damage them, lose them, or even get them stolen. Mobile ticketing is the way of the future because your cell phone most likely never leaves your pocket or your purse. Ticketing can’t get much more convenient, and you don’t have to stress about finding a printer at the last minute, either.

A Technological Future

With the influx of technology into the stadium atmosphere, this high-energy, enjoyable fan experience is unlikely to fade anytime soon. Watching from your couch might be comfortable, but there’s nothing like witnessing the event among fans who understand your love of the game.

10 Post-Event Evaluation Questions & Survey Setup Tips

10 Post-Event Evaluation Questions & Survey Setup Tips
10 Post-Event Evaluation Questions & Survey Setup Tips

10 Post-Event Evaluation Questions & Survey Setup Tips

A post-event evaluation is a questionnaire sent out after an event to collect attendees’ opinions on how the event turned out. The key is knowing the right questions to include in your post-event survey to get the necessary information.

Why It’s Important

After a big event, many organizations want to feel out about their audience. While metrics on the number of guests are essential, feedback is another integral piece of the puzzle regarding improvement.

Questions to Ask

Here are 10 post-event evaluation questions to get an idea on how your participants felt about your event:

  1. On a scale of 1-10, how likely are you to recommend this event to a friend?
  2. What made you decide to attend this event?
  3. How satisfied were you with the number of sessions offered?
  4. How satisfied were you with the quality of the sessions?
  5. How helpful was the staff?
  6. How organized was the event?
  7. Did you make any networking connections during the event?
  8. What are the ways this event could have been improved?
  9. What topics would you like to see discussed at future events?
  10. Do you have any comments or suggestions for us?

Survey Setup Tips

Now that you have a baseline for your follow-up survey questions, here are some tips to make the most of your survey.

  • Be Deliberate on Timing

Your survey is part of your event, not an afterthought. Before the event begins, put the groundwork in place regarding your survey. You can implement it in a thank-you email, or even pass it around while the event is still going on.

  • Mix Up Your Question Types

Including open-ended questions will get your opinions rather than numbers and data. But it’s important to remember that holding people’s attention for a long is difficult. Mix up your list with open-ended questions, yes/no responses, ratings, and suggestions.

  • Keep It Short and Sweet

If someone took the time to click on your survey, it’s a good idea to get them started fast. Make the first question something they can answer quickly, like a rating or a multiple choice question. After that, don’t drag the survey on. Ask the questions that matter and thank the participants for their time – or, even better, reward them with gift cards or discounts.

Your Post-Evaluation Survey

Follow-up surveys are a foolproof way to get an accurate idea of how your event played out. Use these tips to ensure your next survey is successful.

Why Your Venue Needs IoT technology – by Scott Salamina

Why your venue needs IoT technology
Why your venue needs IoT technology

Why Your Venue Needs IoT Technology - by Scott Salamina

To understand how “IoT & APIs” are changing the operation platforms in our industry, we must first establish what they are and how they are currently being used. IoT refers to the Internet of Things & APIs refer to the Application Programming Interface of these technology components. Both play a pivotal role in how our operators, guests, and staff interact with our facility venues. Leveraging these tools gives our operators the tools to make crucial pivoting decisions to maximize our venue’s appeal and guest satisfaction.
TRAX Analytics believes that with the right technology and data, we can empower the front-line associates to create more efficient and effective facility operations through our IoT Technologies. We see that venues connected with IoTs & APIs are at a competitive advantage in leveraging their facility’s operation to pivot based on booking events, scheduling day-to-day operations, and planning for future operational developments.

Stadiums & Arena have the footprint to capture the most data through the pathways our guests use to experience their events. Understanding their involvement with your venue’s spaces and activities has provided quantitative feedback on what is successful and what needs attention. TRAX gives your facility’s operation the digital tools to pivot based on the demands of your venue’s current needs. TRAX agnostic platform gives all media the means to review, learn, and pivot when request demands—finding ways to “Champion” the guest experience with the use of digital interphase allows users to experience events at their pace. Harnessing that data enables your operation to reevaluate the help of staff, spaces, and activities geared at capturing the guest experience. 

Why now, and why TRAX Analytics? In a competitive job market, TRAX has focused on capturing production through the lens of our front-line associates. TRAX has found that when we engage and allow our associates to document their day-to-day production, we build a data-driven platform to acknowledge, review, and coach for tomorrow’s needs. Truly understanding your operation in today’s world starts with capturing each asset’s production. Once that investment has provided a base production value, reviewing and coaching off the data becomes crucial to associate development and department development and quantitatively provides tools to leverage where your operation wants to go.

IoT technologies are an exciting path to the future of how we operate our venues, and embedding practices and procedures to nurture this culture will invite workplace friendship and a “Champion” cultural experience for guests and operators. TRAX Analytics believes that tomorrow is here, and to plan appropriately means analyzing the now and “Champion” a development path for tomorrow’s events.

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5 Ways Stadiums Can Enhance the Fan Experience with Technology Upgrades

5 Ways Stadiums Can Enhance the Fan Experience with Technology Upgrades
5 Ways Stadiums Can Enhance the Fan Experience with Technology Upgrades

5 Ways Stadiums Can Enhance the Fan Experience with Technology Upgrades

Since the early days of stadiums, the primary goal of owners and staff has been to ensure guests enjoy their experiences. As technology develops, managers often experiment with the latest programs and tools to continue raising the standard expected when fans visit a stadium.

Let’s examine five ways stadiums can enhance the fan experience with technology.

#1- Smart Stadium Restrooms

Stadium restrooms have plenty of room for improvement, and with smart restroom technology, stadium owners and managers can greatly enhance how restrooms meet guests’ needs. Installing smart devices and monitoring restroom data encourages more productive stadium janitorial operations by ensuring that stadium restrooms are frequently cleaned between high-traffic times.It also repairs breaks and malfunctions immediately, while ensuring restrooms are constantly kept well-stocked with soap, paper towels, toilet paper, and hand sanitizer.

#2- Line Management/Crowd Control

Waiting in long lines was an unavoidable part of visiting a stadium in the recent past. From waiting to check in at the entrance to waiting for restrooms and concessions, standing in line for long periods can sour the experience of visiting a live event for any fan.

Fortunately, stadium technology that monitors and analyzes crowd behavior moves toward enhancing fan experience by enabling staff to anticipate crowd times, redirect individuals to facilities with less traffic, design more orderly wait areas to prevent line-cutting, and ensure that facilities are designed in a way that improves their accessibility.

#3- Cybersecurity Measures

Engineering professionals are helping stadium owners and operators to decrease the risks of facilities experiencing cyber attacks. By creating surveys that analyze current security measures to point out vulnerabilities, cybersecurity providers can design protective tools that enhance the safety of stadium staff, guests, and visiting athletes.

#4- Accessibility Improvements

Much of the goal to improve stadium fan experiences during an event involves eliminating unnecessary hassles and making navigation easier. By redesigning floor plans to include more ramps, walkways, and efficient mezzanine levels, stadiums can simplify the process of moving through the halls and seating areas, as well as improve accessibility for individuals in wheelchairs.

#5- Digital Screens

Because stadiums commonly host thousands of guests, it’s impossible for every seat to be as close to the action as sports fans may want. To provide visitors with a front-row experience without the need for front-row seats, some stadiums have adopted the use of large digital screens that project crisp, clear video of the event so that viewers in the upper levels can see the game in just as much detail as visitors sitting close to the field.

Stadium operations have come a long way since their inception and part of what has kept fans coming back, again and again, is the positive, accommodating experiences they have when seeing an event live. The added conveniences they get to take part in from year to year.

Technology will always play an essential role in stadium management, and operations professionals who stay up to speed on new developments keep providing unique conveniences that enable visitors to view an event like never before.