as written by Boyke Januar, Creative Director and Krisno Wisnuadi, Web Manager, Creative Services Division

I have several news update to share with you all. True, this month has been slow but despite this, we managed to finalize several external projects. We completed Up.Date, the BritCham monthly magazine, and developed logos for Chater Consulting, Waroeng Jawanua, and DB Capital Partners.

We are also working on materials for the FP Bali Convention 2009. We are designing the event logo, banner, certificates, sarong, polo and t-shirt, document template, power point presentation and the video bumper for the event.

We have also just signed up Bodega as our new client – we’ll be designing its corporate identity and website. The demand for creative projects has decreased but we’re getting significantly more diverse projects, which is great for the team. We need more challenges to create and produce even better designs. We will also continue our efforts to lure more clients in the coming months.

As many of you already know, the team is also working on several internal projects such as the PG website, which is now live but still needs some retouching to make it more informative and attractive. So, we’re not only focused on external projects but internal ones as well.

Several weeks after we launched LEAP, we started work on the concept for the LEAP company profile and website. Several brainstorming sessions were conducted before we decided on the “Theme Park” as our design approach. We are trying a new format for the profile, which is the poster format. Why poster?

A poster should have enough information to paint a relatively clear picture without overwhelming the viewers. Ideally, viewers should not have to spend more than five minutes reading through text on a poster. We will create attractive graphics and placing information that conveys the most important LEAP messages. Graphics and font sizes should be easy to read from at least five feet far. It is a new challenge for the team and we are eager to start working on it!

Up.Date Magazine May 2009	Waroeng Jawanua

Logo CHATER	DB Logo

Web Team and Application Development Team Merge

Last month the Web team welcomed three additional members - Donny, Ronny and Dian - from the Application Development – ISTS team. They are great additions to our resources, if well managed. But along with the resource movement, there were also additional responsibilities for the Web team which now has to take over application development responsibilities

Looking at the current load, team vision and mission, and resource skill set, we definitely do not have the capacity to run a full-scale application development operation. Therefore, part of the deal was to temporarily hold off offering application development services and only offer application support. This means we will not develop new applications but will only maintain existing applications as we re-assess the team’s strategic plan within three months.

Part of the Application Development’s responsibilities was to maintain applications used by Corporate Services. These are NAV-related applications such as Pipeline, Servicing, Transaction and MIS. The Web team has no knowledge of the system and business process of these applications, so we heavily rely on Donny, Ronny and Dian.

To streamline and simplify the maintenance processes, we have appointed Donny as coordinator for Application Support. We expect Donny to be the post box of all requests pertaining to those applications and distribute the workload and schedule to other team members.

During the transition period, we also expect the entire Web team to at least understand the system and business process of those applications. That’s why we feel there is a need to conduct meetings with New Business, Existing Business, Commission, and Data Management teams. We have so far managed to meet with New Business and Existing Business teams. We hope to be able to have meetings with the other teams next month.

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