Team Assessment & Development
Our Team Assessment & Development services are tailored to optimize your team's performance and departmental structure for sustainable success. We collaborate closely with your art directors, managers, and artists conducting personalized 1-on-1 consultations to evaluate your current organizational setup and future growth plans. Our approach includes setting both short and long-term goals aligned with your strategic vision, ensuring clarity in responsibilities and expectations across the team. We provide strategic planning for compensation and benefits, offer benchmarks for performance evaluation, and conduct a comprehensive team health check to assess the composition and balance of talent levels. Additionally, we assist in developing succession plans to ensure leadership continuity and readiness.
Key highlights:
Personalized 1-on-1 Consultations with key staff members.
Organizational Structure Assessment and planning for future growth.
Team Health Check analyzing team composition.
Succession Planning to ensure leadership continuity.
Fractional Art Management Services
Our Fractional Art Management services are tailored to provide high-level art management support on a part-time basis. This offers your team the expertise of seasoned art leadership without the full-time commitment. This flexible approach allows your team to benefit from strategic guidance and leadership, ensuring your art department operates efficiently and effectively.
Key highlights:
Individual Assessment and Coaching to identify strengths and areas for improvement.
Performance Review Consulting for structured feedback processes.
Assessment & Mentoring of Leaders focusing on current and future leadership.
Knowledge Gaps Analysis with targeted solutions.
Rituals & Morale Strategies to enhance team cohesion and motivation.
Art Production & Outsourcing Strategies
Our Art Production Assessment & Strategies services enhance your team's art production capabilities and align them with your project's needs. We offer personalized sessions with art directors, producers, development managers, and other team members to analyze and improve current capabilities. Our bottleneck analysis identifies and addresses issues in team size, production capacity, and efficiency. We develop short and long-term staffing and outsourcing strategies, and our technology assessment evaluates tech art and identifies bottlenecks, offering solutions to enhance your production pipeline.
Our Outsourcing Strategies services streamline your outsourcing processes and enhance collaboration with external vendors. Through sessions with outsource managers, supervisors, and producers, we assess current practices, identify strengths and areas for improvement, and map vendors matching your target art style. We optimize processes and flows, including demand identification, communication, production follow-ups, deliverables, quality checks, and accountability, while assisting with rate negotiations and long-term planning for sustainable partnerships.
Key highlights:
Production Bottleneck Analysis to improve efficiency.
Optimized Processes & Flows for efficient art production.
Short and Long-term Staffing & Outsourcing Strategies.
Outsourcing Pipeline Assessment to identify strengths and improvements.
Vendor Mapping for targeted art style matches.
Long-term Planning for sustainable partnerships.
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Flexible Art Team Creation
We help you make informed hiring decisions by starting the work with contractors before committing to full-time hires. Our services include assessing demand and contracts, sourcing and handling contractors to meet your needs, providing a fit assessment and hiring efficiency strategies to avoid overhiring. We develop strategic plans for sustainable staffing and outsourcing to support your production needs.
Key highlights:
Production Bottleneck Analysis to improve efficiency.
Optimized Processes & Flows for efficient art production.
Short and Long-term Staffing & Outsourcing Strategies.
Outsourcing Pipeline Assessment to identify strengths and improvements.
Vendor Mapping for targeted art style matches.
Long-term Planning for sustainable partnerships.
Talent & Recruiting Strategies
Our Talent & Recruiting Strategies services are designed to help you attract and retain top creative talent, ensuring your team meets project needs. We offer sessions with recruiters, head of art, art directors, and hiring managers to evaluate your recruiting capabilities, identify strengths, and areas for improvement. We assess your recruiting budget, provide strategic planning, identify training opportunities, optimize your applicant tracking system (ATS) and sourcing tools, and assess internal onboarding and offboarding processes. Additionally, our talent pool research maps relevant creative talent locally and globally, while developing strategies for external communications, events, and school partnerships to build your brand as an employer of choice.
Key highlights:
Recruiting Capabilities Assessment to identify strengths and areas for improvement.
Training Opportunities for skill enhancement.
Optimized ATS and Sourcing Tools for efficient recruiting.
Talent Pool Research mapping local and global talent.
Brand Strategy for building a strong employer brand.
Business Development
Our Business Development services provide strategic insights and opportunities to drive growth and innovation within your organization. We assess your art style and product placement within the current industry landscape and identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies. With close partnerships with game and co-development studios of various sizes and VCs, we can help explore M&A opportunities to support your business growth.
Key highlights:
Art Style & Product Placement Assessment within the industry landscape.
Risk Assessment with mitigation strategies.
M&A Opportunities to support growth.
With our comprehensive services, we are dedicated to helping your team achieve excellence in art production and organizational development. Contact us today to learn more about how we can support your success.
