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60-Day Assessment
Getting a Handle on Results and Design Processes
60-Day Assessments, based on site strategy and objectives and arranged at project kick-off, set a clear performance goal and evaluation standard for all teams involved in interactive media projects. The result is more clearly defined accountability, better performance, and higher value from a forward-looking design.
The Challenges
- Much of the expected value in interactive media is difficult to quantify.
- Teams form on an ad hoc basis.
- No individual has the expertise to direct the entire effort.
- Direction and accountability are diffuse.
- Mid-project decision making is often ad hoc, circumventing established team processes.
- Interactive services touch every aspect of a business.
- Change is constant.
Interfacility's Solution
Interfacility's 60-Day Assessments are designed to tackle and resolve these challenges, benefiting all project participants--the companies making the investment in interactive design and the design firms and development companies working with them.
- Understanding Results -- expert assessment of the value represented in the delivered result
- Robust Design -- enhancing the relationship between design firm and client
- Building for the Future -- build the foundation for sustained success
- Team Performance -- support high performance and collaboration
- Guaranteeing Results -- create an environment that supports guarantees
How 60-Day Assessments Work
Interfacility's 60-Day Assessments are based on the client's own evaluation criteria, starting from the strategy and objectives formulated for the project by the client during the planning and discovery phases.
- Initial Project Briefing
- Monthly Problem-Solving Meetings
- Post-Launch Documentation Delivery
- Assessment
- Final Project Debriefing
Deliverables
- Design process that supports a systems approach to interactive media development
- Assessment report with a complete overview of project achievements -- and shortcomings
- Recommendations for immediate adjustments and enhancements
- Roadmap for future development building on current achievement
Neutrality/Objectivity
60-Day Assessments are arranged so as to ensure the neutrality of the facilitators, to enable them to deliver a dispassionate evaluation and to increase their ability to initiate productive collaborative processes.
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More meetings? More paperwork? In a world with so many meetings that lots of people already complain they cannot get any work done?
Exactly. Interfacility's 60-Day Assessments add another layer of organization to large and complex projects. And in doing so, they organize those projects, making them more manageable and more productive. Meetings (and not just the ones with Interfacility) become more focused. Team relationships and workflows are clarified. Documentation is focused on what really matters.
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A design firm delivers a complete website design to its client. The designers are confident they delivered a solid design that organizes a wealth of material effectively, offers considerable flexibility for different types of content, and conveys a strong brand identity. However, they notice that the client does not implement it quite as they had envisioned it. What's more, in the three months following launch, extensive changes seriously undermine the integrity of the design. Not long afterwards, a completely new homepage goes up -- a decision that essentially throws out much of the investment the company made in the design.
What is to be done? Make sure it doesn't happen on your next project.
Interfacility's 60-Day Assessments ensure effective communication between designers and implementers -- after launch and during the actual implementation -- so that both the client and design firm get the most out of their efforts.
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