by Cella Consulting | Apr 15, 2013 | From the Field
In my previous role as head of a creative team, we had a great project management system. We had almost everything we needed. It was a great time tracking tool, managed of our “job jacket” details, had fantastic reporting capabilities, and even had a work-sharing...
by Cella Consulting | Mar 18, 2013 | From the Field
In this age of instant communication and apps for just about anything imaginable, it’s easy to believe everything we need to manage our businesses is at our fingertips. With our smart phones and tablet computers it’s easy to lose sight of the technology ‘behind the...
by Cella Consulting | Oct 15, 2012 | From the Field
A creative services manager must make many decisions in the course of managing her production process, including organization size, organizational design, when to make capital purchases, and when and what to outsource. Increasingly, the manager is also asked to...
by Cella Consulting | Feb 22, 2011 | From the Field
Time tracking in creative services is necessary in order to monitor utilization and productivity. We previously published a blog about the benefits of time tracking, but also pointed out it’s no one’s favorite activity. Let’s examine some of the ways time tracking can...
by Cella Consulting | Aug 1, 2010 | From the Field
In-house creative services teams with an hourly chargeback model must track their time—often to the quarter-hour increment. The discipline of time tracking can be off-putting for many teams at first, but the advantages of time tracking can’t be ignored, and teams...
