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Send Research Report to liaison to distribute prior to Leadership Meeting The body of the email should be similar to the text below. You may need to tweak the messaging to fit the client before sending it. CC: the Project Lead and VP of Opera...
Access to InDesign, Libraries, and Assets
Before you can use InDesign, you need to get added to the DORIS Adobe team, then download the application and other assets. Get access to InDesign via DORIS Adobe account Talk to Zach Creative Cloud (CC) Libraries DORIS Brand - DORIS logos, color...
Tutorials
If you are opening InDesign for the first time or consider yourself an absolute beginner, these short tutorials cover the basics.
Setting Up Your Workspace
To create and manage documents in InDesign (and other Adobe Creative Cloud applications), you can use various elements, such as panels, bars, and windows. Any arrangement of these elements is called a workspace. You can customize them to suit your workflow by ...
Understanding Tools
Like all Adobe products, InDesign is robust and complicated. The same objective can be accomplished in multiple ways. DORIS seeks to standardize many of the workflows to ensure consistency, but it helps to have a basic understanding of the program's tools and ...
Useful Shortcuts
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of keyboard shortcuts for InDesign. These are just a few. Zoom In: Cmd/Ctrl + Zoom Out: Cmd/Ctrl - Maintain a straight line (or 90° angle) when using the line or pen tool: Hold shift while clicking Toggle between Norma...
Linked and Embedded Images
When you place an image, you see a version of the file in the layout so that you can view and position it. However, the actual graphic file may be either linked or embedded. Linked artwork is connected to, but remains independent of, the document, resulting...
Exporting Files
Export an open document to PDF for printing Choose File > Export. Specify a name and location for the file. For Save As Type (Windows) or Format (Mac OS), choose Adobe PDF (Print), and then click Save. Select High Quality Print as t...
Styles
InDesign styles help maintain consistency throughout and across documents. Character Styles and Paragraph Styles can both be applied to text. A Character Style remembers formatting for single characters, words, or phrases. A Paragraph Style will...
Schedule Alignment Meeting
Purpose Convene client leaders + decision-makers with the DORIS team to better understand their needs Responsible Party Sales Lead Interdependencies The Sales Lead should have engaged with the client and vetted their fit for a project before scheduling....
Prepare agenda and materials for meeting
Purpose To introduce how DORIS works to a prospective client, see how DORIS might help the organization meet its goals, and gain clarity about what leadership already knows and wants to know about the organization in order to create a sales proposal. Note: O...
Alignment Meeting Dry Run: Final Prep with Sales Lead
Purpose Ensure Ops and Sales are aligned about the goal of the meeting and establish roles. Responsible Party Ops + Sales Lead Interdependencies The meeting materials have been prepped and created. Directions A member of the Ops team who di...
Conduct Alignment Meeting
Purpose DORIS collects client data to show organization leadership how data becomes a deliverable tailored to their needs. Responsible Party Sales Lead and Project Lead Interdependencies The meeting has been scheduled, materials have been checked, a...
Debrief with DORIS team
Purpose Update the DORIS team on how the meeting went. Responsible Party Project Lead Directions The project lead writes a summary of the meeting and posts it to the project's Slack channel and the project charter. Write + answer the following questions:...
Create Alignment Meeting Project in Ops Logistics
Purpose Creating the project in Ops Logistics allows the Ops Team to incorporate its related tasks into their workload and provides Sales with visibility into the project's progress. Responsible Party Ops Manager, Project Lead. Interdependencies Before t...
SOP Page Template
Purpose Sentence/phrase explaining why we do this task Example:Convene client leaders + decision-makers with the DORIS team to better understand their needs Responsible Party Who does the task?Example: Sales Lead Interdependencies What has to happen befor...
Prepare project alignment data
Purpose Prepare the data for analysis Responsible Party Project Strategist or Data Analyst Interdependencies The meeting facilitator takes photos of the data and brings the hard copies back to the office. Directions Transcribe the meeting data i...
Migrating Content to New Template Pages
1. Open the book. 2. Open the existing page in a new tab 3. Open the deliverable/milestone chapter 4. Create a new page 5. Insert the SOP template 6. Click "SOP Page Template" 7. From the existing page, copy over the task name to the new page title 8. C...
Write research questions
Purpose Research questions drive the strategy of any research project. They narrow the client's motivating challenge/fuzzy situation into 5-8 questions that are: clear: providing enough specifics that one’s audience can easily understand its purpose withou...
Write + make the Delimitations Document
Purpose The Research Scope and Delimitations document outlines the boundaries of a research project. Defining this information allows the researchers to focus on gathering the most relevant data to answer the client’s questions and generate the most impactful...