Prairie Ideas' Project Management Service
Based on our experience with multi-disciplinary projects, Prairie Ideas offers a unique blend of strategic and logistical communications project management.
Creating a plan to meet your business goal, in a timely fashion, will require that we work closely with your identified Subject Matter Experts. Our goal -- to provide you with a project plan that makes sense for your company. We begin by asking the fundamental questions to determine your business commneed, we analyze the W5's of Who, What, Where, Why, and When and will create a proposal unique to your business goals including the recommended Team, Targets, and Timelines for implementation.
Can we guarantee there won't be any challenges along the way? Absolutely, not. In our experience, every project has its own unique bumps and challenges during implementation. Our job is to implement a solid focused effort to resolve any challenges and provide you with recommendations.
Projects can also take on a life of their own unless they are carefully controlled and managed - identifying issues which are outside of a project's scope is essential in keeping to the plan. But, these ideas can also be invaluable. So to ensure none of that knowledge is lost, we maintain a "parking lot" process to capture ideas for the future.
Upon conclusion of the project, Prairie Ideas' will provide you with a Summary Report on your unique project. This report will provide an Overview of Successes and Challenges along the way and identify issues which arose that were outside of the scope of the project.
Prairie ideas' Additional Business Services
Issues Management
Issues management can be one of the most critical activities and it is often overlooked given the day-to-day demands of conducting business. Prairie Ideas’ Rapid Response Program offers a variety of services related to issues management.
Working in close liaison with your company’s representative, our goal is to provide an accurate S(trengths), W(eaknesses), O(pportunities), T(hreats) analysis, leading to an appropriate Action Plan (including the identification of appropriate internal and external communications tools) and implementation timelines.
Strategic Communications
Familiarity with today’s multi-channel integrated communications is a must to getting your message out right, the first time.
But there is no point in communicating, if you don’t have a solid message and plan and that’s where we come in. Working with our strategic partners, we will take your idea and create an integrated strategy to get your message out, whether it be through social media or more traditional means, like print, radio or TV.
Web Management
Your web site is your gateway to the world, 24/7, 365 days a year but its not always easy to manage the daily demands of a business and keep your website up-to-date -- let us do that for you. Utilizing Macromedia software, we can update your look, help you market your site, or just add that extra photo or two you just couldn’t get to.
Haven’t got to a web site yet…no problem, we can help you start from scratch to get the look and style you want.
Event Management
Press conferences, luncheons, dinners, grand openings - they all take time and energy to plan and implement…time you don’t always have.
With experience in planning and implementing all levels of events from Summit Meetings to luncheons and in between, we can help you develop your event vision into a solid plan and carry through on producing an event your guests can enjoy..
Contact Database Management
Information is king. One of your key resources is the intelligence you gather making contacts and being able to access those key contacts with the click of a mouse can be in one word…priceless. But somehow, maintaining and updating those contacts always seems to be the last thing to get done.
If you are at the stage where a sophisticated Customer Relationship Management system is still in the future, but you’ve outgrown that pile of business cards on your desk ...let us help you organize and manage your business contacts.
Our Contact Database Management packages can be customized to meet your organizations needs, and may include:
Data Analysis – an analysis of what do you want to do with the information you have
Data Organization – recommendations to meet your specific needs
Data Compilation – merging your existing technological and physical information
Data Liaison – investigating additional sources of data at a regional or national level
Data Importation – importing that information into the appropriate technology for you
Data Management – providing you with written instructions on how to maintain your database for the future.
Publicity
Coming to Winnipeg to shoot a film, mini-series or TV show - we can act as your liaison to our local media community by providing hands-on, localized contacts with media, assisting with preparation for media conferences or act as your legs on the ground for traveling production companies.
Additional Business Support Services
Not enough time in the day, staff already overloaded, or just starting out and need some help getting organized, …we offer a variety research and business support services utilizing Microsoft's Office and MAC products, eg. Microsoft Word, Excel, Power point , Pages and Numbers, to name a few.
