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Leadership Lessons From the Military to Business: A Conversation with Chris Gore
Chris Gore grew up on a council estate in Liverpool. Oldest of four boys. Father was an alcoholic who left when Chris was twelve. No GCSEs. No job prospects. At sixteen he looked at the path he was on and decided to join the army. They put him through some tests and discovered he had more brain than he had been given the opportunity to use. He spent thirteen years in the military. Then he left, moved to London, and founded SPOR Group.
SPOR Group
Aug 267 min read
From Council Estate to £10M AV Company: The SPOR Group Story
The version of this story that gets told at industry events is the one that starts at the first £800,000 deal. This is the version that starts earlier, in Liverpool, where there was no father figure, no mentor, no business background and no idea how to spell the word entrepreneurship.
Chris Gore
Jul 26 min read
This Is How You Deploy Useful AI in Your Workplace
The four-day week trials have run. The data is largely positive. Productivity holds or improves. Staff wellbeing improves. Retention improves. The case for it as a concept is reasonably well established at this point. The question that gets far less attention is a practical one: is the office actually capable of supporting it?
Chris Gore
May 185 min read
Five AV Contract Red Flags to Check Before You Sign
AV contract red flags rarely show up as anything dramatic. They show up as a scope of works that says little more than supply and install AV equipment, a payment schedule that asks for most of the money up front, and a warranty clause that sounds generous until you read what it actually excludes. Most disputes between a business and its AV company start on the page, months before the installation itself. read the full breakdown here.
Chris Gore
22 hours ago3 min read
AV Disaster Recovery: What Happens When Your Whole System Goes Down
AV disaster recovery is not something most businesses think about until the exact moment they need it, which is usually five minutes before a board meeting, when the main screen will not turn on, the room booking panel is frozen and nobody can remember who actually looks after the AV. A full system failure is rare. What is not rare is a business having no plan at all for the fifteen minutes after it happens. read the full breakdown here.
Chris Gore
2 days ago4 min read
How Many Meeting Rooms Does Your Office Actually Need?
Working out your meeting room count properly, before a fit-out rather than after one, saves more money than almost any other decision in an office move.
Chris Gore
3 days ago3 min read
The Problem With AV
How a Major Insurance Company Transformed 8 Meeting Rooms With a Full AV Fit-Out
They had eight meeting rooms on a single floor that needed a complete rethink. Not a patch job. A proper, standardised, future-ready AV fit-out. That's where SPOR came in.
Chris Gore
Apr 216 min read
When One Room Needs to Do Two Jobs: Microsoft Teams Room Meets Dolby Atmos
Most meeting rooms are built for one thing. A screen, a camera, a speakerphone, done. But what happens when your business needs that same space to pull double duty? One moment it needs to run a flawless Microsoft Teams call with a client in New York. The next, it needs to drop jaws with a cinema-quality product demonstration.
Chris Gore
Apr 175 min read
How SPOR Group Transformed Masdar's London HQ Into a Seamless Microsoft Teams Rooms Environment
When a global clean energy company relocates its London headquarters, the pressure is on to get everything right and that includes the technology that keeps their people connected. Masdar, one of the world's leading renewable energy developers, needed a complete Audio-Visual overhaul at their new Paddington office. They turned to SPOR Group to deliver it. Here's how we did it and what the end result looks like.
Chris Gore
Mar 114 min read
Reviews
What an Hour of Broken Boardroom AV Actually Costs
An hour of AV downtime costs more than most businesses realise, and almost nobody actually calculates it.
Chris Gore
Aug 273 min read
What Should Meeting Room AV Actually Cost? A Straight Answer
Ask three AV suppliers to quote for the same meeting room and you will likely get three very different numbers. One comes in cheap. One comes in eye-watering. One sits somewhere in between with a list of exclusions you have to chase down. If you have ever tried to budget for a room refresh or a multi-site rollout, you already know how frustrating this is.
Chris Gore
Jul 244 min read
How Much Does a Boardroom AV System Cost in the UK? (2026)
The question of how much a boardroom AV system costs comes up constantly, and the honest answer varies by a factor of ten depending on room size, specification tier and what the room is actually used for. An entry-level boardroom setup for twelve people costs very differently from a flagship executive suite with dual PTZ cameras, ceiling microphone arrays, dual 86-inch displays and full room control.
Chris Gore
Jul 214 min read
How Much Does AV Cost?
GoBright vs Condeco: Which Room Booking Platform Is Right for Your Organisation?
Both GoBright and Condeco are well-established room booking platforms deployed across UK organisations. Both integrate with Microsoft 365 and provide room panels, utilisation data and desk booking capability. On paper they look like direct alternatives. In practice they serve different organisation sizes, different IT maturity levels and different analytics requirements.
Chris Gore
Jul 153 min read
Cisco Webex Board vs Microsoft Surface Hub: The Honest Comparison
The Cisco Webex Board and Microsoft Surface Hub are both premium all-in-one touchscreen devices designed for collaboration-heavy rooms. Both start above £8,000. Both include 4K display, integrated compute, camera, microphone, speaker and digital whiteboarding. Both are designed for flagship spaces where the technology is expected to impress as well as perform.
Chris Gore
Jul 133 min read
Neat Bar vs Neat Bar Pro vs Neat Board: Which Device Is Right for You?
Neat has built a strong reputation in the UK corporate market for clean, minimal hardware that integrates tightly with Microsoft Teams Rooms. Unlike manufacturers who support multiple platforms, Neat devices are designed specifically for the Teams experience, which shows in the polish of the integration but narrows the platform choice if your organisation runs a mixed environment.
Chris Gore
Jul 23 min read
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