The world is changing a lot right now—and it’s happening faster than ever. No industry or discipline has escaped the emergence of generative AI, but we’re still in the early stages of knowing exactly what it…
Does thinking about the health of your agency keep you up at night? We don’t blame you. Running an agency is no easy feat during the best of times. In today’s world—it’s a different kind of…
Kathryn E. Strachan launched B2B content marketing agency CopyHouse as a one-woman band in 2019. After landing Scottish Widows as a freelancer, she quickly needed to set up an LTD. Four years later, she has a…
The time has come to evaluate the best project management tools for agencies, to help you find the right fit for your business. Far too many agencies are still using spreadsheets to manage high-stakes projects. Between…
Former Director of Project Management at MRM, an award-winning agency part of IPG, Shantal Gonzalez, shares how she’s gone from no boundaries to pushing back as work-life balance grows increasingly important. Shantal Gonzalez always knew what…
Jackie Olson has had an unconventional journey in the ad world. Shortly after joining Digitas in Boston, covid hit. Fast forward two years and she’s left the ad world for a job as a snowsports instructor…
Amirreza Farhadi is the Associate VP of Operations at Havas CX Canada. Part of Havas’s senior leadership team, he builds, monitors, and improves processes to ensure the business runs smoothly. In his eyes, that starts with…
At the heart of every thriving agency, there’s a well-oiled machine known as agency operations. From resource allocation and workflows to client management and process optimization, agency operations are what, well, keeps your agency in business.…
The advertising industry doesn’t have the best reputation when it comes to work-life balance. It’s notorious for its fast-paced, high-pressure environment, where tight deadlines and demanding clients are the norm. “It’s agency life” is the rationale…
They say that a watched pot never boils. And that may be true, but here at Resource Guru, we say that a watched project never fails. Monitoring and controlling a project is an essential part of any…
The best project managers go the extra mile for their teams. Not only do they wrestle with undefined gray areas to find win-win scenarios for all stakeholders and remove roadblocks that prevent people from getting work…
Last week, Holly Davis, Principal Delivery Manager at Torchbox, talked about complacency, ownership, and project scope. This week, Dr. Al Zeitoun, PgMP, PMI Fellow, and Senior Strategy Director at Siemens, shares the story of when he…
Project closure often gets overshadowed by the execution phase, and to be fair, there can be some confusion and overlap between the two. But this is exactly why the project closure phase exists: to make sure…
Last week, Operations Director at DDB Sydney, Steph Dix, shared her (all-too-familiar) story about work-life balance and how exactly her mantra, “happy people make for great work,” came to be. This week, Holly Davis, Principal Delivery Manager…
You’ve created a meticulous project plan. You’ve got a project dream team behind you. And your stakeholders are ready and willing to back you all the way. What could possibly go wrong? Answer: the execution. Project…
