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What workflow/project management tool does your team use?

  • Other (36%, 16 Votes)
  • inMotion (33%, 15 Votes)
  • Custom-built solution (11%, 5 Votes)
  • Workamajig (11%, 5 Votes)
  • RoboHead (7%, 3 Votes)
  • FunctionFox (2%, 1 Votes)
  • MetaCommunications (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 45

Start Date: May 3, 2013 @ 5:12 PM
End Date: No Expiry

What components in your process do you consider essential to running your in-house department?

  • Using a project management tool (63%, 24 Votes)
  • Having a centralized job intake process (61%, 23 Votes)
  • Having a good traffic manager (47%, 18 Votes)
  • Tracking our time (24%, 9 Votes)
  • Using account managers like an agency model (24%, 9 Votes)
  • Employing a chargeback model (5%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 38

Start Date: April 5, 2013 @ 4:44 PM
End Date: No Expiry

What are the top priorities for your creative team for 2013?

  • Improve process and workflow efficiencies (70%, 23 Votes)
  • Add more strategic value to the business (42%, 14 Votes)
  • Improve the skillsets of the team and quality of the work (30%, 10 Votes)
  • Promote the value of our department to senior management (27%, 9 Votes)
  • Restructure the team to adopt an agency model (21%, 7 Votes)
  • Introduce a chargeback model (15%, 5 Votes)

Total Voters: 33

Start Date: March 6, 2013 @ 5:33 PM
End Date: No Expiry

What was the trend in compensation at your firm for 2012?

  • We gave the same raises and bonuses as last year (42%, 11 Votes)
  • We gave modest cost-of-living adjustments (42%, 11 Votes)
  • We gave higher bonuses than last year (19%, 5 Votes)
  • We gave only our key employees a bonus (15%, 4 Votes)
  • We gave no raises or bonuses this year (4%, 1 Votes)
  • We gave lower bonuses than last year (4%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 26

Start Date: January 11, 2013 @ 1:35 PM
End Date: No Expiry

How much influence does your in-house team have on agency relationships?

  • We are not involved in agency relationships – finished work is given to us to implement. (31%, 5 Votes)
  • We are brought into agency projects eventually, often when it’s too late to properly affect the outcome. (31%, 5 Votes)
  • We don’t have a say on who is hired, but we work closely with the agency throughout the project life cycle. (25%, 4 Votes)
  • We own the relationship, finding and hiring agencies ourselves. (13%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 16

Start Date: November 30, 2012 @ 9:06 AM
End Date: No Expiry

What does your firm do for holiday cards?

  • We only offer an electronic card (39%, 9 Votes)
  • We offer both a printed card and an electronic card (35%, 8 Votes)
  • We track how many clients open the e-card (26%, 6 Votes)
  • We offer one printed card to our clients globally (26%, 6 Votes)
  • We don't send holiday cards to clients (9%, 2 Votes)
  • We offer multiple versions or designs to appeal to different regions (9%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 23

Start Date: August 3, 2012 @ 2:05 PM
End Date: No Expiry

What industries do you think offer the best opportunities for an in-house creative professional?

  • Technology (52%, 12 Votes)
  • Healthcare (30%, 7 Votes)
  • Consumer Brands (26%, 6 Votes)
  • Finance (17%, 4 Votes)
  • Move to the agency side (9%, 2 Votes)
  • Law (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 23

Start Date: January 1, 2012 @ 12:00 AM
End Date: No Expiry

How is your in-house team weathering cutbacks and squeezed budgets?

  • We are in a hiring freeze (38%, 13 Votes)
  • So far, our team has been unaffected (26%, 9 Votes)
  • We are reducing total headcount and overhead (26%, 9 Votes)
  • We are turning away non-critical work (21%, 7 Votes)
  • We are outsourcing, on-site. (15%, 5 Votes)
  • We are sending more work off-shore (6%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 34

Start Date: November 1, 2011 @ 7:00 AM
End Date: No Expiry

What are the growth opportunities at your firm for your creative staff?

  • We provide staff with training to learn new skills (52%, 22 Votes)
  • There is no advancement beyond project management (40%, 17 Votes)
  • We pay our senior people well (26%, 11 Votes)
  • Designers are encouraged to move into project management (19%, 8 Votes)
  • Production artists are encouraged to move into design (12%, 5 Votes)

Total Voters: 42

Start Date: October 5, 2011 @ 8:37 AM
End Date: No Expiry

What kind of career path has led you to where you are today?

  • I came from the agency side (46%, 24 Votes)
  • I have always worked in-house (38%, 20 Votes)
  • I moved into management from design or project management (29%, 15 Votes)
  • I have always managed people and/or operations (4%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 52

Start Date: October 5, 2011 @ 8:36 AM
End Date: No Expiry

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