• It’s Time to Huddle!

    June 06, 2016

    • by Davielle Pierrette, IHAF

    This month marks the start of our annual Huddle discussion group series—one of IHAF’s most popular events. These half-day sessions are ideal for in-house agency leaders and individual contributors alike. This year’s Huddle focuses on the rise of Omni-Channel Marketing and the challenge of keeping …

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  • Improving Client Relationships is Easier than You Think

    April 18, 2016

    Regular interaction with clients is a reality for most creative professionals. (They pay our bills, after all!) Yet, according to a recent industry poll, client engagement is a challenge for nearly three-quarters of creative teams. So how can you improve your client relationships? Here are three …

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  • Can This Relationship Work?

    October 19, 2015

    We have all undoubtedly experienced a mixed bag of client/agency relationships over the years—from the rich, rewarding experiences we fondly remember to those indifferent, demotivating relationships. There may even be one or two we would rather forget. It’s the glue that bonds us to our clients and …

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  • Waterfall: A Top-Down Approach to Strategic Planning

    September 21, 2015

    In-house agency account management organizations that adopt top-down, iterative planning processes greatly increase their ability to optimize staffing and plan for the capabilities needed by internal clients.

    How? These processes assure agency leaders and account managers not only get the input …

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  • Keeping Your Strategic Marketing Plan Top of Mind

    September 14, 2015

    Most of us are stretched too thin—we fight a million deadlines and are sometimes guilty of missing the forest for the trees. We can get lost in the weeds of responding to day-to-day requests and creating assets without stopping to examine the bigger picture. When I find that my team is overly …

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  • Three Ps to Enable Team Success

    August 24, 2015

    • by Callum Broderick, Deltek

    The overused and somewhat cliché phrase “doing more with less” has never been truer. Clients are demanding quality output in a lot less time and at a much lower cost than ever before. As an in-house agency, this means balancing who you say “yes” to and who you avoid in the lunchroom. With proper …

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  • Creativity Born Out of Structure

    June 29, 2015

    Yes, you read the title right. The all-important and often overlooked way to stimulate creativity is through structure.

    Technology, process, organizational design, and purposeful management trump latte machines, foosball tournaments and in-house yoga classes when it comes to encouraging innovation. …

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  • Idea-Generating Techniques for the Desperate

    June 22, 2015

    Here’s a general rule of thumb regarding idea-generation techniques: they’re clunky, dorky and time-consuming. Oh, and they don’t work. You reluctantly resort to one when you're under the gun for an idea, then end up wasting valuable time that leaves you even more frustrated and desperate and …

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  • Real Patients. Real Stories. Real Collaboration.

    June 01, 2015

    Telling your company’s brand story can sometimes seem like a life-or-death proposition. For Baylor Scott & White Health, one of the largest not-for-profit health care systems in the country, their brand IS life or death. And they've spent years perfecting the process of storytelling...navigating …

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  • Collaboration Inside & Out

    May 26, 2015

    If orange is the new black, collaboration is the new integration.

    Remember when agency integration was all the rage? Just a few years back, clients and agencies focused heavily on the importance of strategically communicating across multiple channels. While still important, integration has been …

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