'Creative Workflow Management' Drives Efficiencies in Branding and Packaging Production

• CWM applications can serve as a de facto institutional memory, cataloging creative collateral across channels and establishing a “single source of truth” (or “system of record”) that allows for the redeployment of creative content and reconciles challenges associated with synchronization of product launches and uniformity across media.

“As large, product-focused companies concern themselves increasingly with challenges related to organizational efficiency, it’s critical that they embrace tools and processes that put macro strategy into practice at the operational level,” said Jonathan Margulies, a director at Winterberry Group. “Our research has revealed that when it comes to the creative-focused disciplines—including brand management, packaging and marketing execution—CWM offers significant potential for both cost savings and improved time-to-market performance, as well as better overall quality throughout the creative execution process.”

“Kodak is proud to sponsor this important work,” added Alison Malloy of Kodak’s Marketing Workflow Solutions Group. “The findings brought forth in the research build awareness about creative workflow management for brands searching for more effective ways to market better, faster and more creatively to realize near instantaneous return on investment.”

Creative Workflow Management: Bringing Science to the Art of Brand Execution is available for complimentary download via the Our Insights page of Winterberry Group’s Web site (located at www.winterberrygroup.com/ourinsights) as well as via Kodak’s marketing automation homepage (located at www.automation.kodak.com).

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