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decisions right away. The point of acquiring the information as a first step is
to get a clear picture of the scope and
details of all of the moving pieces in an
area, department, or problem that is
being reviewed. A good way to capture
everything for a department is to take
daily notes on each person, their equipment, and their process. These notes can
then be laid out and used during the next
step: Organize.
GET ORGANIZED, OR
GET FRUSTRATED
Perhaps you started to analyze a department and before you finished, the
process became so overwhelming you
threw your hands in the air and quit
from frustration. The good news? This is
totally normal, and probably more common than the opposite situation where
you analyze and create perfect notes,
clearly breaking down an entire department with all processes outlined.
The bad news is you may feel like you
didn't get anything done but frustrate
yourself. A way to move forward at this
point is to step back and change your
concept of what "organize" means. The
best analogy to this concept is if you step
into your child's room and the entire floor
is covered with dirty clothes. Assuming
for some crazy reason you've decided to
help with this process, the best way to
move forward without experiencing
total paralyzing frustration is to pick
some obvious variables to divide the
mess into manageable groups. In the case
of laundry it makes sense to use groups
that will relate to a final process, so you
won't have to re-sort the piles later (like
all the reds, darks, whites, and towels
together). With an art department review,
you can sort your variables into finished
processes that will exit the department to
production, sales, or customer approvals.
If you organize your analyzed processes,
equipment, and steps into how they
produce assets of value to other departments you will minimize the backtracking
later if the data you've gathered won't
contribute to a final outcome.
Reviewing an art department can be
broken into:
Inbound art channels - How does art
come into the department, and what do
all of these methods look like (emails,
walk-ins, website downloads, mailed
jump drives, links to dropboxes, etc).
Art reviews for sales quotes - What
are the steps to take from each method
in Figure 1 in order to get from a review
of the artwork request to a customer
order from sales?
Art order scheduling - Once sales
confirms an order or an art request,
what are the steps to determine the
priority and timeline for creating a
customer art approval?
Art approval creation - When an art
order is addressed, what are the steps to
finalize an art approval for the client?
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