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As
an IT Manager, one of the biggest challenges you face is communications.
Which is nothing to do with wires and everything to do with people. You
need to get your ideas across, to people who need to hear them but have
neither the time nor the inclination to listen to the full story.
Why
doesn’t the communication job get done? Because it takes
-
20 minutes to say what matters
- 2
hours to talk through what you want to say
- 2
weeks to write it up
- 2
months to communicate it to the people with the budget power
You
can find the 20 minutes. In a good week you might even find the 2 hours.
But, the 2 weeks of writing and the 2 months of communicating are impossible
to find, even though the task is right there at the top of your job description.
What
you need is someone to listen to the 2 hours worth, and with no more start
than that, go away and do the weeks of writing and help with the months
of communicating. The trouble is to do that your way, they’d have
to be you.
With
everything else you have on your plate, how do you find time to develop
and present the communication materials you need to make your points?
You spend a few hours talking to us about your strategy and the points
you want to communicate. We then do the following for you:
- Research
the points that need back up
- Survey
your clients
- Bring
back a draft strategy outline, informed by the research results,
for your review and refinement.
- Draft
the strategy documents, including, if needed, multimedia presentations
and fully developed web pages.
- Refer
all drafts back for your editorial sign off.
- Check
final drafts with your choice of key clients.
- Deliver
to your clients, polished, professional documents, backed up by
a fully developed set of web pages.
- Provide
the multimedia presentations for your communications roll out
- As
an option deliver the presentations to your audiences.
- Charge
you a fixed fee, agreed at the start of the process, which you
pay only after you receive the final materials, and you like what
you see.
You
know what needs to be done, you know the points you want to make. The
challenge is to find the time and energy to develop the communication
materials to get your message across. We can provide that time and energy
for you, at a reasonable price, which you only pay when you have the end
result in your hands and you like what you see.
Some
of the things we don’t do
- Workshops.
You know what you want. So do your clients. We won’t waste
your time locking you all up in a room whilst we rack up chargeable
hours, going over what you all already know.
- Charge
by the hour.
We set up our fees based on delivered results. We are as invested
as you are in delivering the best possible results, on time.
- Peddle
a methodology.
We are conversant with a number of formal methodologies for IT
strategy development. We use those that add value when and as
they do so. We won’t waste your time selling you one, or
asking you to fund us whilst we invent a new one.
- Take
the credit.
When the time comes to present your ideas to your clients, the
materials will not have our logo all over them. The results will
be presentations of your ideas, and will read that way to your
clients.
- Teach
you to suck eggs.
We are offering to help you get your ideas across. We will not
be telling you what those ideas should be.
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