1. Introduction In your day-to-day work you will have already come across policies and codes of practice which you are expected to incorporate into how you run your organisation and teams. Many of these policies are now available in digital formats. Accessing these documents online should make it easier for you to comply with them … Read more
1. Managing change Once you have decided that you need to adopt a new digital strategy, digitally focused business model, or perhaps to engage your audiences in new ways, you are embarking on a process of change. It is important in this context to embrace change and to manage it. Managing change is not about … Read more
Applying objectives and key results (OKRs) across your organisation can help your team reach its full potential. A practical guide by the ticketing and box office software provider Ticketsolve to support their sponsorship of the Small Scale Development Programme: Wales.
The toolkit and guidelines for audiences at outdoor events and festival aim to provide a framework to measuring and evidencing the impact of an outdoor event. The guidelines provide practical advice for audience research at un-ticketed cultural festivals and other events in the following sections: research principles, data collection methods, evidencing success, estimating audience size, questionnaires and surveys, working … Read more
Results of a pilot shared survey of galleries in the South East, South West, East, East Midlands, London and Wales. Visitors to galleries were asked questions about their age, locality, frequency of attendance, art specialism and art purchasing.
‘Let’s Get Real’ details the online analytics methodology, research and key findings of a major study into how arts and cultural organisations can evaluate online success. It suggests new ways to plan, invest and collaborate on the development of digital cultural activities. The guide explains how to define what you are trying to do online, … Read more
An insight into how The Natural History Museum aims to create life-long relationships with its visitors which rely on them being connected with all aspects of the Museum’s work. For an organisation that has 40 different logos and a complex structure, this is no easy task, and this case study shows you how it can … Read more
A study to identify the economic contribution of the main arts organisations to the Birmingham economy and the impact they have on the image, profile and perceptions of the city and wider West Midlands region.
Snapshot London: Visual Arts, is a visual arts benchmarking project. The Audience Agency undertook a scoping exercise to establish the amount and nature of audience data being collected and used by London contemporary visual arts organisations, and investigated the most appropriate and cost effective means of supporting these organisations in their ongoing audience research and development … Read more
In this article Andrew Lewis outlines the PSA3 target set by the DCMS, used to measure under-represented groups. He looks at some of the statistical evidence which demonstrates which groups are the least represented in the arts – in terms of both attendance and participation, and reports on some of the known barriers which organisations … Read more