12 Tips for a Better RFP
RFPs! Whether your procurement guidelines require them or not, they’re intended to help you find the best partner for your project. But a poorly written and managed RFP can turn away the folks you want to attract. Follow our 12 tips and you’ll have firms like NewCity lining up to respond.
Unified Strategy Starts with Language and Empathy
How your Higher Ed teams can build bridges and collaborate around a shared vision
Build Your Digital Playbook & Toolkit
Every leader who shapes the web presence of a big organization wants to deliver a powerful online experience, one that reflects the brand, attracts people and delivers great service at all levels – from the main gateway to the smallest department.
Project Strategy Blueprint
A strategy blueprint is a one page summary of your project strategy. We primarily use them across our project team as a short-had reminder of the needs and goals of the project. If you plan to use it to share the project strategy with other stakeholders, you may need more explanation. We usually include these […]
Herding Cats (and Building Consensus) with Workshops
Building consensus can be hard. Really hard. Especially when you bring together a group of smart, opinionated people to develop a new approach or solve a problem. That’s why we use workshops.
Project Context Workshop
The Project Context Workshop is a great kickoff exercise to get the project owners and the project team to agree on goals and scope. We learned this approach from Agency Agile. A project context session helps to: What you need: You can run this as a virtual workshop with your favorite online whiteboard tool too. […]
Advanced Cat Herding
Ever been in a workshop you knew was doomed 5 minutes in? It’s not that people don’t want to do the right thing. Nor is it that we don’t want to cooperate. Why is it so hard to lead a group to agree on a problem, visualize a solution, and move toward a goal? Advanced Cat Herding, available as a workshop and eBook, is a collection of our best tips for facilitating workshops and leading a group to create great things together.
