Bluecadet Interactive

Our SXSW panel takes on Requests for Proposals, and brings them down to size. We're teaming up with Happy Cog, Weblinc, and Four Kitchens to improve the RFP process.

RFPs are like online dating. The worst kind of online dating.

Imagine an online dating experience where all users have uniform information provided, one picture (and there's no telling how old it is...), and a host of clinical, antiseptic statistics and data. From that information, you have to select a date and commit to more than just one rendezvous. You have to commit to 6 months of dating.

This is what RFPs do. They take vendors and strip them of their individuality in the hopes of surfacing an illusion of an apples to apples comparison. There has to be a better way.

In this panel, business development professionals will speak to the RFP process and other options. Ways to circumnavigate an RFP will be discussed. Creative alternatives will be outlined and the strengths and weaknesses of RFPs will be analyzed. If you are building an RFP now, this is your intervention. If you like a good war story, we'll be comparing scars like Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss in Jaws.

Let's start architecting a better process. Let's provide a solution that maximizes creatives' capabilities and speaks to clients' requirements, all while building a project team that collaboratively launches an amazing result.