How clients raise their game
No, this isn't the place where we shout our own prasies and tell you how well we have done for our clients. Its more about what challenges our clients face and the commitment they have made to finding solutions which will work for them. Sure, Saffron House has helped in a variety of ways, from providing creativity to developing strategies and communication infratsructure, but the credit goes to our clients.
Here is a selection of internal communications solutions that have helped other clients (in confidence) to overcome obstacles, engage their employees, share knowledge or activate their brand.
"It's how we run the business." Setting objectives, identifying the metrics, measuring the gaps and improving performance. It all sounds logical, but how do you get people in all functions to do it?
Explaining Business Excellence to employees and gaining their commitment sounds like a standard communications requirement. However, when the audience is truly worldwide with language, dialect and literacy differences, the challenges are ratcheted up.
Building a truly global brand from the inside out. Through its IT business process outsourcing, Atos Origin regularly integrates waves of new employees from client companies. Successful merger is an inside story.
The CEO threw down the challenge to develop a community of self-managed high performance teams across the organisation. Xerox EMEA first needed to explain the concept and then promote the benefits to a sceptical European audience.