Our Ideas - Why Hire an Agency?
So you know you need design assistance. Do you build a team in-house? Hire a Director to manage the work of a team of independent contractors? Find one or two great IC's that can do everything and hope that they'll keep working for you as long as you'll need to rely on them? Or hire an Agency? If you are uncertain as to whether or not working with an agency is the right solution for your organization, consider the following.
Instant access to an established team of top-notch professionals.
Interdisciplinary problems require interdiscplinary solutions. Designing a world-class user experience requires the talents of information architects, business analysts, visual designers, developers, writers, researchers, and project managers among other skilled professionals. To identify, qualify, integrate and manage independent resources necessary to staff all of these roles would require your organization to, in essence, become an agency. Advancing Ideas, LLC embodies our investment of nearly a decade, identifying top-notch professionals that work well together and empowering them to do so.
Complete work more cost-effectively by giving the right kinds of work to the right team members.
Most projects contain components that must be completed by experienced team members that often command higher-than-average rates. While their expertise is necessary at critical points in the project, many production activities can typically be accomplished by less experienced team members that do not demand the same rates. By knowing which pieces of a project are appropriate for each role and how to effectively manage this collaboration, your budget will work harder and the results will be stronger.
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Account-based staffing means we already know "the history" as we often grow intimately familiar with your organization's legacy and legacy systems. From our familiarity with established style guidelines to our understanding of often arcane industry jargon, you'll benefit from our commitment to maintaining continuity of expertise even as members of your internal organization come and go.