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Creative Performance Inc. lands Duarte as a client
Portland, OR, August 16, 2013 — Duarte, a leading Silicon Valley-based presentation design firm, has hired Creative Performance Inc. (CPI), a national leader in financial and operational consulting for the marketing services industry, to assist in the setup and deployment of their Workamajig® platform.
“We are very pleased to be engaged by Duarte,” says Vanessa Edwards, President of CPI. “Over the next few months, we will be working closely with the Duarte leadership team to assist with all aspects of their Workamajig deployment including: accounting conversion, system setup, employee training and agency performance metrics, and more.”
Workamajig® is the most powerful and innovative project management software for marketing and ad agencies, design firms, in-house creative departments and everyone else in the creative industry.
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About Creative Performance
Creative Performance Inc. is a niche consulting firm for the Marketing Services industry. They specialize in measurably improving their client’s throughput, resourcing, realization rates, utilization rates and project profitability, while protecting creativity. The CPI management team consists of former agency owners, focused exclusively on empowering agency principals to achieve their business and cultural goals. CPI brings a balanced approach that emphasizes harmony between People, Process and Technology. Clients include small, mid-market and enterprise organizations across North America. CPI is an Oracle Agile PLM Gold Partner and Workamajig® Expert Partner, tackling their most complex and sophisticated clients, including their largest enterprise deployment: a 1,300 person, 22-office agency.
About Duarte
Located in Silicon Valley, Duarte is an agency that specializes in transforming information into inspiration, leveraging their unique VisualStory™ methodology, which applies storytelling and visual thinking to craft persuasive communications designed to shift audience beliefs and behaviors. They strive to create visual, audience-focused presentations that motivate, inspire, and persuade by leveraging a methodology that incorporates the four tenants of Emphasize, Engage, Visualize and Activate. Unlike many of their peers, Duarte proactively shares and proliferates their knowledge via their Academy, which consists of over a dozen workshops through the year. Duarte enjoys a diverse portfolio of clients that includes The Food Network, Twitter, Nokia, Citrix, Cisco and Mozilla, among others.
About: CPI
Creative Performance Inc. (CPI) is a marketing operations consultancy for the marketing services industry (both Agency + In-House). We specialize in improving our client’s Organizational Agility and Operational Resilience, through a seamless integration of industry best practices, mar-tech and business intelligence. CPI is an AgencyStory®, Deltek®, Oracle Agile and Workamajig® partner.
About: Vanessa Vollum Edwards
Hailing from Portland, OR, Vanessa graduated from university with a degree in Philosophy. An amateur helicopter and fixed wing pilot since age sixteen, she began her first career as a pilot for LifeFlight. Upon completing her MBA, Vanessa was recruited by a fellow classmate into becoming the CFO/COO for a digital agency experiencing rapid growth. The agency was acquired in 2010. Over the last decade, Vanessa has built a strategic consultancy focused on empowering agency principals, accelerating growth, increasing profitability and deploying agency management software.