We've spent our careers inside marketing and communications organizations — watching talented teams do remarkable work despite a structural problem nobody was fixing.
The briefing comes from a busy executive with one perspective. The supporting data is scattered across three Slack channels and a folder nobody can find. The proof point that would make the campaign land was said on a call six weeks ago and nobody wrote it down.
The team is asked to do creative alchemy — transmute raw, disorganized, hard-to-access signals into narrative gold. It's a losing setup. And it's everywhere.