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Join Decideware at ProcureCon Marketing, June 6th-8th!

Posted by Joseph Herrada on May 24, 2023 3:17:06 PM

 

How to apply Business Intelligence to Agency Management

Posted by Richard Benyon on Jun 1, 2021 11:48:00 AM

 

 

Learn how to apply Business Intelligence to Marketing Procurement and Agency management in our new E-book. If you are an executive who works at a large advertiser, who has responsibility for managing relationships with marketing & communication agencies, and are looking for new ways to optimize those relationships, then this eBook is for you.

It’s time to EXCEL with Business Intelligence!

Posted by Robin Seasock on May 20, 2021 3:26:02 PM

Has your CPO or CMO asked you how much money the company is spending with creative agencies... globally?

 

It is not an unreasonable question, yet many large advertisers rely on spreadsheets, multiple meetings, and numerous emails to answer what should be a simple question.

Yes, the finance team can provide the high-level budget information, by brand, but they typically can’t drill into the details of the spend. The individual brand teams know their specific spend details, but when it comes to rolling up that information across all brands, regions, and company divisions, that collating process takes weeks and sometimes months. By the time each market provides their details, the data is obsolete and doesn’t provide a real-time perspective of the agency engagement activity.

The ANA & Ford & Decideware – Webinar; Ford’s Journey in Automating their Agency Management Process

Posted by Robin Seasock on Apr 28, 2021 8:47:19 PM

 

In this webinar, hear from members of Ford's Global Agency Management Team as they share their experience in automating their scope of work and performance evaluation processes globally across all divisions and under tight timelines.

 

How to Organise Teams for Scoping Season Success. An ANA Forward magazine article.

Posted by Aaron Mateer on Jun 1, 2020 10:02:49 PM

How to Organize Teams for Scoping Season Success.

 

Ensuring the right people are at the table and working toward the same goals.

 

The following is an extract from an article published May 25, 2020 in Forward magazine by the Association of National Advertisers. ANA Members can access the full article, here:

https://www.ana.net/magazines/show/id/forward-2020-05-decideware-organize-teams-for-scoping-success

There's no rest for the weary. With the 2020 scope season in the rearview mirror, it's already time to look ahead to 2021.

Announcing the 2020 Decideware Advertising Management Scholarship at MSU, Inaugural Recipients

Posted by Robin Seasock on Apr 27, 2020 7:58:47 PM

 

The Decideware Advertising Management Scholarship at MSU. 

 

Decideware is pleased to announce a new scholarship fund has been established with the Department of Advertising and Public Relationships in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University (MSU), ie the Decideware Advertising Management Scholarship

And we are now delighted to recognise Brandon Crawford and Isabel Perhogan as the deserved recipients of the (inaugural) 2020 awards.

Is AI the End of Agencies As You Know Them?

Posted by Robin Seasock on Apr 17, 2020 1:42:15 AM

 

 

On 10 April, the Association of National Advertisers published a new article;

"Is AI the End of Agencies As You Know Them?"

which features comments by Decideware, Inc. CEO Richard Benyon. 

Agencies and their Views of Evaluation Programs

Posted by Richard Benyon on Sep 8, 2019 11:03:41 PM

Agencies are valued partners in advertisers’ evaluation programs. They act as respondents in the relationship surveys our clients conduct, often they’re invited to play a role in shaping the program, and certainly they will engage to act on the findings.

ANA Webinar: Deliver Value Beyond Savings: Helping Marketing Achieve Objectives Using Optimized Agency Management

Posted by Robin Seasock on Jul 17, 2019 11:04:49 PM

Most agency management programs help companies manage their agency relationships, deliver process efficiencies and savings. But did you know there is more untapped value that Marketing isn’t getting that can help brand teams make more informed decisions and deliver insights to the leadership team to help drive Marketing strategy? During this webinar, Decideware and LinkRFx will share with you how to move up the value pyramid to deliver more strategic value. 

In this webinar, you will learn:

  • Stronger marketing investments are possible when Marketing, Operations, Procurement, and Finance collaborate and optimize agency management
  • Marketing Procurement isn’t all about cutting costs, they can be enablers for marketing leadership for brand planning and measuring brand/agency activity against topline marketing strategies  
  • A well-designed agency management program delivers insights for swift decision making

https://www.ana.net/magazines/show/id/forward-2019-07-decideware-beyond-traditional-agency-management


Incorporating Business Intelligence Dashboards into your Agency Management Program

Posted by Decideware Staff on Jul 20, 2017 9:30:00 AM

Most decisions made in the agency management arena are time-critical and must be accurate. This places an emphasis on having processes and systems in place that collect information efficiently, often across multiple geographies, business units and with different agency types.

Using Decideware’s Business Intelligence Solutions to Better Manage Agencies

Posted by Decideware Staff on Aug 4, 2016 10:30:00 AM

Adopting the world's best BI tools enables Decideware to help clients optimize their agency management programs.

Over the past 12 months, Decideware has invested in business intelligence software.  This BI layer makes the complex task of analyzing data and answering key business questions, a simple and quick process. 

Using Business Intelligence to better Manage Agency Performance

Posted by Decideware Staff on Apr 29, 2016 1:30:00 PM

Many advertisers have trouble making use of data that could help them better manage agency performance, relationships and spend optimization. That data is often presented in Excel spreadsheets and it’s very hard to make sense of it.

Using BI to manage agency fees and ad production costs

Posted by Decideware Staff on Mar 16, 2016 11:00:00 AM

Data provides greater insight into ad production costs.

Brands spend a lot of money on advertising to reach their audiences, and production costs are a big part of the investment. It's always important for advertisers to weigh the costs of production with the required quality of the end product and advertising objectives. Simply cutting costs could result in less effective campaigns with negative outcomes bigger than the production cost savings. That said, advertisers want to optimize their investment and get the best value for the money. 

 

Business Intelligence at ProcureCon Marketing 2015

Posted by Richard Benyon on Dec 17, 2015 10:30:00 AM

    

 

Agency Management Leaders

 

This year's Procurecon Marketing conference was held in Nashville, with just under 200 agency management and marketing procurement practitioners in attendance. The size of the conference was perfect for networking, and we had the pleasure of hosting our first Agency Management Leaders dinner, with 20 marketing procurement directors and senior managers getting together to trade ideas and make new connections. Much of the value of these industry conferences occurs outside the official sessions, so it was a pleasure to help facilitate some of these discussions in a less formal environment!

Decideware to Present at Upcoming ANA AFM Committee and WFA Sourcing Forum Meeting

Posted by Decideware Staff on Dec 3, 2015 12:30:00 PM


 

 

The ANA and WFA will hold its ANA AFM Committee and WFA Sourcing forum next week from December 8-9th in New York, NY.  

"It's become a recent tradition for the ANA and WFA to hold yearly, back-to-back meetings of the ANA Advertising Financial Management Committee and WFA Sourcing Forum in New York."

Decideware and Nestle to Present at Upcoming ProcureCon Meeting

Posted by Decideware Staff on Nov 10, 2015 11:00:00 AM

    

 

ProcureCon for Digital & Marketing Services will hold its annual meeting next week from November 16-18th in Nashville, TN.  

"ProcureCon for Digital and Marketing Services is North America's only event specifically dedicated to issues pertinent to marketing procurement. This meeting has content geared toward all maturity and experience levels and contains a host of industry leading speakers to tackle important marketing procurement topics." 

Marketing Procurement Business Intelligence Webinar

Posted by Decideware Staff on Oct 19, 2015 1:18:00 PM

 

WFA and Decideware Host Webinar on Marketing Procurement Business Intelligence

 

Recently, the WFA and Decideware held a webinar which explored how marketing sourcing teams can better leverage data to make smarter, more effective strategic sourcing decisions. The webinar included information on:

- How marketing sourcing organizations currently handle data;
- Ownership and management of data sets and their usage;
- Where opportunities lie for better reporting and visualization.

The webinar can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxB1xre30pM&feature=youtu.be

Nestle & Decideware’s Business Intelligence Journey : ANA Presentation

Posted by Richard Benyon on Sep 23, 2015 4:39:00 PM



http://www.ana.net/committee/meeting/id/MFWC-SEP15

At a recent ANA West Coast committee meeting, Olga Payne (Nestle Purchasing Manager) and Richard Benyon (Decideware Inc CEO) presented a one hour case study on how Nestle has successfully applied Business Intelligence to their Scope of Work program.

The Importance of Marketing Communications Mix, Data & New Technologies

Posted by Vlad Komanicky on Sep 21, 2015 5:12:00 PM

Few would argue that the future of effective and successful advertising & consumer communications lies in the proper utilisation of multiple marketing channels via relevant messaging and content. Marketers are seeking better integration, and are looking beyond TV, print, banners and paid search.

AdAge recently posted an interview with Nissan CMO, Roel de Vries, who discussed the future of advertising agency models, but ultimately the discussion focused at many important areas that I want to explore bit further.  I'm going to look at four key themes from this interview. Even though I'm in agreement with what has been covered in the article, I want to go bit deeper into explaining why. 

Decideware to Present at Upcoming ANA AFM West Coast Chapter Meeting

Posted by Decideware Staff on Aug 31, 2015 5:12:00 PM

 

The ANA AFM West Coast Chapter will be holding it's next meeting on September 15th at Nestle's office. During the meeting, Richard Benyon, CEO of Decideware, will co-present with Rene Dedeyko, Strategic Procurement Manager - Advertising, Nestle on "Using Agency Data Analytics to Gain Purchasing Efficiencies & Cost Savings." 

Business Intelligence Thought Leadership: 2015 ANA Magazine

Posted by Decideware Staff on Jun 11, 2015 3:00:00 PM

Seeing the Light

In a Sea of Data How to Apply Business Intelligence to Marketing Procurement and Agency Management

 

The June 2015 edition of the ANA Magazine has just been released and Decideware features in a thought-leadership article on how business intelligence can be applied to marketing procurement and agency management.

In this article, Richard Benyon overviews the importance that data plays into marketing decisions and overall agency management. Currently, the processes need to make these decisions "suffer from significant overhead: it is slow to collect, labor-intensive to centralize,and often suffers from poor quality and transpositional errors."

Furthermore, Richard overviews the benefits of Business Intelligence and focuses on the importance of collecting data efficiently, using visualization in data mining (to help identify patterns), and understanding the statistical foundations used to make better decisions. 

The ANA Magazine is distributed to 32,000+ ANA members.

It is available via the ANA site or click here:  http://www.ana.net/am0609sp

ANA Webinar: Applying Business Intelligence to Marketing Procurement & Agency Management

Posted by Richard Benyon on Apr 21, 2015 7:51:00 PM

ANA Business Intelligence Webinar Details

Learn how leading companies are using data visualization techniques to uncover new insights and make more effective decisions in managing their marketing spend. This webinar, presented by Richard Benyon, CEO – Decideware, Daniel O'Brien, Global Business Analyst – Pfizer, and Diane Gibbons, Global Procurement – Pfizer, will look at how to apply business intelligence tools to analyze agency budgets and performance using the wealth of available marketing procurement data. Understand how well-constructed dashboards can assist you to better explore this data, distribute critical knowledge within your organization, and optimize all areas of agency management (including agency selection, scope of work, performance evaluation and production budgeting).

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