On June 28, 2022, members of the 4A’s Project Management Community participated in an open forum discussion relating to Resource Management. Meeting participants shared their interests and related concerns.  

This video is of a discussion held on December 14, 2021, with members of the Agency Project Management Community who met to share their learnings and experiences relating to building and managing a team of agency project managers.

On April 28, 2021, Mark Piazza from the Business Intelligence and Insight Team hosted Tim Williams to discuss how to trade your agency’s rate card for the concept of a “pricing stack” – a variety of ways you can get paid for the value you create instead of the hours you work. This also has […]

On April 1st, 2021 the 4A’s Business Intelligence & Insight team and Bobby Singh, SVP, Global Commercial Officer, at WPP hosted a webinar on how to have better pricing discussions with Procurement. In this talk, Bobby explored: Why pricing is important How Procurement views suppliers (commodity vs strategic suppliers) The common approaches procurement uses to […]

On March 24, 2021, the BI&I group hosted “How to Negotiate with Procurement” (Webinar) with guest presenter Tom Kinnaird, Founder and Managing Director of Kinnaird Negotiation (and former Chief Procurement Officer at WPP).  Tom Kinnaird’s aim during this webinar presentation was to help you and your teams navigate complex and challenging negotiations. While at WPP, […]

Many of our member agencies have returned to the office.  Many have not but do expect to slowly migrate back to the office as the general population gets vaccinated in the wake of the COV-19 pandemic.  However, It could be months before we achieve herd immunity but in the interim many agencies are faced with […]

This video, produced on February 11, 2021, provides a discussion on current states’ digital tax initiatives that may have an impact on agencies, and how agencies should begin to prepare for them. Please feel free to contact either Alison Pepper, 4A’s, EVP – Government Relations, or Sal Conte, 4A’s, VP – Business Intelligence & Insight […]

The 4A’s met on Wednesday, February 3, 2021, to discuss the following topic: Your Business Continuity Plan: COVID-19 Shattered It. What You Must Do Now for Your Next Business Interruption. The virus forced agencies to re-engineer their Business Continuity Plans on the fly. Now is the time to reassess your Business Continuity Plans to incorporate […]

When Analytics Is the Thing That Brings It All Together Analytics can — and should — be a tool that clients can’t say no to adding to their budget. Just ask Carmichael Lynch. At the Minneapolis agency, analytics has become a new source of revenue. When a big CPG company needed someone to report on […]

On Thursday, December 10th The 4A’s held a Cybersecurity Joint Community Meeting co-sponsored by the 4A’s and the law firm of Wilk Auslander.  Our co-presenter was Natalie Shkolnik, Partner at Wilk Auslander LLP ([email protected]). This meeting invite was broadly extended to a wide community of attendees including HR, Finance, Technology, President & Founders, COO’s, CEO’s, […]

This is a joint meeting of the 4A’s Project Management and Regional Finance Communities held on October 6, 2020. The session was moderated by Jeff Thaler, a consultant to a number of organizations on Agency and Client-side Service Delivery, Project Management, and Operations. Jeff most recently served as the head of Program Management and Operations […]

To all 4A’s Community Members, On Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 3:00 pm the 4A’s Business Intelligence & Insight group hosted a Virtual conference regarding “State Employment Laws and Tax Requirements relating to Remote Workers (Full-Time Employees and Independent Contractors)”.  The discussion was moderated by two attorneys from the firm of  Frankfurt Kurnit, Tricia Legittino, co-Chair of the Litigation and Employment […]