Score yourself in each best practice area. SELECT 0 = no progress to 5 = positioned for success.

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* 1. Best Practice:
Flexible staffing model

Strategic Value:
Ability to rapidly change with needs of the business allowing timely, effective support.

Action Required:
Are you able to identify possible staffing gaps and prepare to quickly add or access talent that will bring new skills, experience, services, technology proficiencies, etc. as needed?

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* 2. Best Practice:
Ability to redesign teams / organizational structure

Strategic Value:
Future proof your agency to support a growth marketing strategy with the development of a new content creation center of excellence. Be ready to align skills and staff to the changing landscape.

Action Required:
Build and centralize or support a team that is focused on Content Creation to add value to key marketing mirco-interactions. Are you able to consider this?

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* 3. Best Practice:
Subject matter expertise (SME)

Strategic Value:
The future of Growth Marketing will require the elevation or acquisition of new Data, Media Delivery Channels and Consumer Behaviorist SMEs.

Action Required:
Can you justify to senior management and formulize SME roles in functional areas to mentor staff members, champion improvements in processes, stay abreast of industry trends, add new services, etc.?

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* 4. Best Practice:
Well-defined SOPs, SLAs and workflows

Strategic Value:
More time will go to efficiently delivering high-quality work rather than tripping over operational tasks or correcting mistakes.

Action Required:
Are you able to take a step back and reevaluate your processes for efficiency and continuous process improvements ensuring that general best-practice are in place and function as a framework for team collaboration, not a rigid mandate?

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* 5. Best Practice:
Scalable project management and digital asset mgt. solutions

Strategic Value:
MarComm technology selection, mapping and integration provide transparency and efficiencies and help prevent obsolete and unnecessary costs ahead.

Action Required:
Have you developed a strategic plan for your technology and integrations?
Has your organization adopted technology solutions currently in place? 

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* 6. Best Practice:
Strong project/account management

Strategic Value:
With KPIs and Metrics in place, ongoing reporting will ensure project control and delivery with excellence that will allow for continuous improvements and an increase in output.

Action Required:
Can you access data to demonstrate that your Project and Account Management teams have efficient processes designed for the deliverable type and that your workflow tool aids in communication and tracking?

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* 7. Best Practice:
Robust staff development

Strategic Value:
Advancing their development gives people the expertise to stay current in their field and make sound judgment calls.

Action Required:
Are you able to create a structured program designed to increase people’s hard/soft skills and expertise while enhancing corporate culture?

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* 8. Best Practice:
Entrepreneurial leadership team

Strategic Value:
People will proactively find opportunities to continuously improve the business.

Action Required:
It's time to empower team members to take the initiative for improvement and budget for proof of concepts. Are you doing this?

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* 9. Best Practice:
Effective corporate advocates

Strategic Value:
Having champions in the larger organization removes barriers to better performance and opens up new business opportunities.

Action Required:
It's essential to engage advocates in upper management, peer groups, key departments (i.e., HR and Procurement). Are you able to position the unique needs of your department within your organization?

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* 10. Best Practice:
Partnerships with external vendors

Strategic Value:
New deliverables/services can augment those done in-house and shared knowledge/skills with partner agencies can form a productive symbiotic relationship that benefits the business.

Action Required:
Are you identifying competent vendors with the needed expertise to augment the team?

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* 11. Best Practice:
Well-defined Mission, Vision & Value Proposition

Strategic Value:
Team-specific framework provides a foundation for operating autonomously, improving culture and establishing guidelines for taking on the right work.

Action Required:
Are you ready to revisit your mission, vision and value proposition to ensure your department remains future-proofed to the changing needs of the marketing world?

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* 12. Best Practice:
Scalable funding model

Strategic Value:
Flexible funding will ensure that you can acquire needed training, resources and equipment.

Action Required:
You must partner with upper management, clients and Procurement to identify and implement the most scalable and efficient funding model for your team. Is this currently happening?

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