Key Deliverables for Explore Phase
Stakeholder Interview Sessions
- What is it? A facilitated discussion with key people who have a personal stake in your content to uncover opportunities, issues, strengths, and business and customer priorities regarding your content; questions are provided in advance.
- Why do we do it? It provides insight on your business goals, current-state content ecosystem, including content requirements, gaps and issues, redundancies, and future-state opportunities.
- How is it used? To inform the content strategy framework and future-state roadmap; identify short-term and longer-term opportunities and understand different perspectives within the organization on the role and importance of content.
Content Inventory and Audit
- What is it? A tool that captures content in its current state and identifies issues, gaps, and future opportunities. This information could include a source of truth, catalogued and classified content living within multiple systems, and a list of content types. Quantitative assessment in the audit is based on criteria that may include content objectives, SEO, and other variables.
- Why do we do it? To assess the current volume and scope of your content, while assessing its quality and effectiveness.
- How will we use it? To inform the content strategy framework, recommendations, and roadmap. Most importantly, it will inform the content model for your future content solutions. This work may include analysis that finds out the redundant, outdated, and trivial (ROT) content, and advises you how to sunset it appropriately.
Social Insights Audit
- What is it? An audit of your social ecosystem is like a content audit.
- Why are we doing it? To uncover insights about your social target, brand, category, competitive set, influencers, and campaigns.
- How will it be used? To inform the content strategy framework and future-state roadmap as well as social recommendations overall; to identify short-term and longer-term opportunities.
Competitive Content Experience Audit
- What is it? An audit of your competitive landscape that shows which content your competitors leverage and how effective they are in doing so. Audit criteria, which we arrive at working you, informs the output, as does Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis. This analysis will include three to four competitors, an industry outsider (outlier) company, and your company.
- Why are we doing it? To uncover the weaknesses and strengths of your competitive landscape to help identify opportunities for your own content’s success.
- How will it be used? To inform areas that you should focus on for future content decisions and planning.