Planning & consulting

Audience research is about looking outward. Once you and your colleagues have internalized the research findings and recommendations, you may find you also need to look inward—at your organization’s vision, brand, strategies, messages, and programmatic offerings.

We help selected clients translate their new understanding of the audience into clear, compelling principles for change. In some cases, that means bringing together a small team of leadership, senior staff, and trustees to a fresh vision for the future. In others, it means brainstorming creative new programming or positioning concepts to test-drive with audiences.

Our planning and consulting services include:

  • Facilitating vision and ideation sessions
  • Drafting vision, strategy, and branding/positioning statements
  • Assistance with goal-setting and defining success metrics
  • Developing logic models (what's this?) 
  • Innovation consulting
  • Ongoing advisory services (e.g., participation on internal planning teams)

Don't see something you need? Let us know and we'll see if we can help — or refer you to one of our trusted partners.

re:search newsletter

More info

Keep in touch. Sign up for our monthly e-newsletter, re:search, and be the first to know about our reports, articles, professional dialogues, and more.

Our blog. Your comments. Jump in.

January 16, 2012 | Peter

In the arts, audience-centered business models start with the art, not the business

 »

In my last post, I asked where the consumers are in the Colorado symphony’s new “customer-driven” business model and promised a few examples of ways arts groups are getting audiences into the picture a little more creatively. It’s about not thinking of them as consumers or audiences in the first place, but as collaborators.

More »