Agencies

Application Decommissioning Steps

Six Steps Toward Better Application Decommissioning

Application decommissioning is a process that every business will at one point have to go through. Once an existing application has been outmoded by comprehensive upgrades or other important changes to the IT environment, a company will need to retire such an application. Agencies will jump into the process unprepared leaving open the possibility for all sorts of issues to arise. So, how can your business decommission applications the right way?...

Agency Framework to Evade Application Clutter

It seems that for today’s agencies there are more requirements than ever—especially in the technical department. How is it that there seems to be a separate application for virtually every task an agency does on a daily basis? Why have our agency offices become so cluttered with technologies? And how can your agency declutter this application expanse?...

Steps to choose a project management app

Five Steps Toward Choosing a Project Management App

Project management is one of, if not the most important piece of software for today’s successful ad agencies. After all, the fundamental creation of value for agencies is nothing other than each and every project created for clients. It’s therefore impossible to overestimate the importance—and, indeed, value—of choosing the right project management application. So, where is an ad agency to begin its search? ...

Self-Aware: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of ERP

Ad agencies see change everywhere, especially in the technological sphere. There is perhaps no other point in history in which technology has moved as fast as it does today. Consider how dramatically otherworldly the talking computer HAL 9000 first appeared in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. So, how does this affect ad agencies, particularly on an everyday basis?...

Five Reasons Your Marketing Campaign Planning Fails

Marketing campaigns involve a highly complex set of components working together to produce a desired outcome: a successful campaign. From designers to project managers to executives to clients, each role is important. And knowing how to plan the workflow for such a project is just as crucial. Here we’ll take a look at five common mistakes that occur during the planning of marketing campaigns and how to avoid such issues....

How Agency Projects Leak Money?

A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is—it is what consumers tell each other it is”, a quote from Scott Cook, co-founder of Intuit. Life is a series of conversations, those of which may never be recollected by any of us in great detail; but the highlights make its way thru a series of actions. Businesses are no different, they are like our school-going, college-visiting, home-coming, and home-away children. We have all tried the 'tell' approach, it just does not stick....

Mobile Workforce

A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is—it is what consumers tell each other it is”, a quote from Scott Cook, co-founder of Intuit. Life is a series of conversations, those of which may never be recollected by any of us in great detail; but the highlights make its way thru a series of actions. Businesses are no different, they are like our school-going, college-visiting, home-coming, and home-away children. We have all tried the 'tell' approach, it just does not stick....

Questions in a school

7 questions agencies should ask their ERP provider

The most crucial step which can decide the success or failure of your  implementation, is choosing the vendor that is right for you. In their search for vendors, many agencies are lead astray by flashy advertising or cannot find the solution they were looking for. Or when they do find the right solution, they cannot fully utilize its potential. Here is a list of essential questions that you should ask the Platform vendor to ensure that they are the chosen ones for your agency....