If there was one thing that I promised myself when leaving the corporate world to start-up Mind Methods with my business partners, it was to ensure that I could be in a business that operated in a flexible and efficient manner without compromising on the quality of work.
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Over the past 12 months, we have been very fortunate to be working with Polycom as their lead agency for marketing campaigns and creative for the entire Asia Pacific region. Polycom are a multinational brand, operating from many locations across the continents.
Marketing Teams Collaborating Globally
One of the main benefits of working with Polycom is that their entire business model is based on the design, development and marketing of collaborative technology. It is amazing that such a large organisation can practice what it preaches and still function in such an effective manner. As a business owner, it’s quite inspirational really and the best way to encourage a culture of advocates.
Retaining Talented Team Members
Polycom’s global teams nurture workspace collaboration and staff can work from their offices, at home or at any other off-site location in a very effective manner using the same infrastructure that is marketed to their clients.
The Mind Methods team have found that the quality of the Polycom marketing teams is at a very high standard. Why? simply put, it’s a great place to work that retains really good staff through it’s flexible workspace model.
Work Life Balance with #Collaboration #Technology! Founder of #marketing agency @TheMindMethod, @Simon_Tokic shares https://t.co/VNnKFaEqp7
— Polycom (@Polycom) May 19, 2016
Effective Agency Collaboration
The use of Polycom's collaborative technology is also a reason why a boutique marketing agency like Mind Methods has been able to pitch to, project manage and essentially be able to effectively implement marketing solutions to a global organisation.
Through Polycom’s implementation of their own collaboration tools, we have been able to become a true extension of their team across the region, sharing ideas and working efficiently to deliver results.
Globalising Marketing Campaign Workshops
A great example is when setting the new product launch campaign strategy, we needed to go beyond the brief. As a result we had a very productive workshop involving approximately 10 sales and marketing stakeholders from Australia, Singapore and the United States in around 8 locations on a simultaneous video call.
The workshop did not skip a beat and the campaign ideation process produced a very rich and thorough strategy that had all ideas explored and concerns addressed. The implementation of the campaign has been a success with Polycom already achieving their first sales pipeline target (and there are still more countries within the region that have not yet run the campaign in their region).
Conclusion: There Are Amazing Cost Effective Tools Available Today!
You can check out the campaign case study here. We could have written a book on this campaign! What has excited us at Mind Methods is that we can see how a company can retain high quality and standards through implementing a strong workspace collaboration strategy.
We have implemented our own collaboration technologies, which have allowed me to be present in my sons young life…as to what mix of technology we use, well thats another story for another day. Work is one aspect that fuels life and embracing technology is definitely a key to dodging Sydney’s crazy morning traffic!
