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What You Need to Know About ChatGPT and How It Can Help You Create Content
Project Management 7 min read

What You Need to Know About ChatGPT and How It Can Help You Create Content

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that can generate answers to prompts and questions. You can use it to write outlines, song lyrics, poetry, and more.

How Electrolux Produces 10x More Assets With Wrike
Project Management 3 min read

How Electrolux Produces 10x More Assets With Wrike

Read how Wrike helped the Electrolux packaging design team produce 10 times more assets thanks to improved proofing and approval processes.

How To Enhance Design Operations for Creative Teams
Productivity 7 min read

How To Enhance Design Operations for Creative Teams

Learn how Wrike’s DesignOps Manager cultivated the perfect creative production flow for our internal design team with request forms, reports, and more.

10 Free Brainstorming Apps and Tools to Spark Innovation
Collaboration 5 min read

10 Free Brainstorming Apps and Tools to Spark Innovation

The key to brainstorming isn't just getting as many people as possible in a room so they can collaborate on the greatest ideas ever. It requires a bit more work to get the most out of your brainstorming session. Sometimes, the best brainstorming sessions are accompanied by a simple tool that allows you to record and visualize the progress of ideas. This allows your team to see the flow of ideas and gives more context around next steps.

7 Techniques for More Effective Brainstorming
Collaboration 10 min read

7 Techniques for More Effective Brainstorming

Brainstorming is a useful method to bring together a wide range of viewpoints. Additionally, it's a quick way to generate a large quantity of ideas. Here are 7 easy ways to brainstorm effectively, encourage collaboration, and eliminate judgement.

Top Tips for Managing Design Projects
Project Management 10 min read

Top Tips for Managing Design Projects

Managing design projects requires using a flexible approach to achieve the best possible results. Learn how in this guide to managing design projects.

Graphic Design for Beginners: Top Tips
Marketing 10 min read

Graphic Design for Beginners: Top Tips

With so many brands vying for customer attention in a sea of digital content, it’s more important than ever to use effective images that draw people to your message and brand. But having Photoshop loaded on your work laptop doesn’t automatically make you a designer, and a bad visual can annoy viewers (at best) and

What to Look for When Evaluating Design Project Management Tools
Project Management 10 min read

What to Look for When Evaluating Design Project Management Tools

A design project management tool can help keep you, your team, your clients, and — perhaps most importantly — your projects on track. Here are some tips on how to choose the right one for your team.

Why You Need a Motion Graphics Project Template
Project Management 5 min read

Why You Need a Motion Graphics Project Template

When creating a new creative project, it may be easy to get sidetracked with all the possibilities, which is why a motion graphics project template can help plan and get your project done on time. Read more to discover the 3 essential parts of a motion graphics project template and how Wrike can help you get started.

Effective Brainstorming (Video)
Collaboration 3 min read

Effective Brainstorming (Video)

Brainstorming project ideas can be challenging. Some ideas get lost due to disorganization or louder voices override quieter ones – as a result, brainstorming sessions can devolve into chaos. Check out our video on how to effectively organize and run your brainstorming sessions and maximize productivity.

5 Reasons Creative Teams Should Adopt Systems Thinking
Project Management 7 min read

5 Reasons Creative Teams Should Adopt Systems Thinking

With an ongoing avalanche of information and data now available on a multitude of platforms, it’s easy to become more focused on tools than the creative side of work. It’s time to change your approach. Check out our list of 5 reasons why systems thinking can revolutionize the way you work.

A Guide To Successful Idea Generation Techniques
Marketing 7 min read

A Guide To Successful Idea Generation Techniques

Try these proven idea generation techniques to create innovative and successful campaigns and concepts. Discover how to generate new ideas with Wrike.

The Creative Project Timeline Template You Need
Project Management 10 min read

The Creative Project Timeline Template You Need

A creative project timeline will help you deliver winning projects more efficiently. Here’s how to set up your creative project timeline template.

Creative Leaders: Be Consultants Not Just Service Providers
Leadership 5 min read

Creative Leaders: Be Consultants Not Just Service Providers

An interview with Jason Resch, Vice President and Creative Services Director at Umpqua Bank.(This is part of a series on managing and creating world-class internal creative teams.)  With the increased pressure to deliver more output faster, creative teams — and especially their creative directors — must find ways to manage work and teammates efficiently. Creative leaders

5 Creative Innovators Who Stole Their Biggest Ideas
Marketing 5 min read

5 Creative Innovators Who Stole Their Biggest Ideas

I think we can all agree that lying and cheating is definitely discouraged; stealing though, at least in the form of recycling ideas, can be appropriate when it comes to creative work. In fact, it may even make you famous.

Creative Leaders: Balance Business Strategy and the Latest Technologies
Marketing 7 min read

Creative Leaders: Balance Business Strategy and the Latest Technologies

An interview with Alex Calicchia, Founder & President of Hive Partners.(This is part 1 of a series on managing and creating world-class internal creative teams.)  With the increasing speed and digitalization of business, creative teams are under a lot of pressure to deliver projects - faster, better and in higher volumes. With this interview series, we

3 Ways to Better Manage Freelance Creatives
Leadership 3 min read

3 Ways to Better Manage Freelance Creatives

If you're a creative team working with freelancers, then according to the 2014 In-House Creative Industry Report, you're in the 90% of all creative teams that will hire remote freelancers this year to meet peak demand. But as with any remote work situation, there are challenges to making it work. While remote work may be ideal for

How Collaborative Work Management Software Improves Production Management
Project Management 10 min read

How Collaborative Work Management Software Improves Production Management

If you’re ever planning to manage a production process, you absolutely need a collaborative work management software. Check out our overview of the importance of production management, including examples of how leading brands use collaborative work management software to successfully complete projects.

10 Free and Paid Online Resources for Learning Creative Skills
Marketing 5 min read

10 Free and Paid Online Resources for Learning Creative Skills

Whether you’re working as an advertising/marketing professional, freelancing in graphic design, or a hobbyist photographer, there's always something new you can learn in order to enhance your creative skill set. So instead of wasting time on social media or cat videos (my favorite), why not check out these recommended online resources that can help you learn

The Guide to Making Better Decisions
Leadership 10 min read

The Guide to Making Better Decisions

Solid decision-making is one of the core pillars of effective leadership. Top strategies to uplevel your decision-making skills.

Say Hello To Wrike for Adobe XD: Speed Up Creative Production
News 7 min read

Say Hello To Wrike for Adobe XD: Speed Up Creative Production

Wrike is excited to announce our latest collaboration with Adobe: Wrike for Adobe XD. Read on to learn more about how this plugin can transform your creative processes.

What Quentin Tarantino Can Teach You About Creativity
Marketing 5 min read

What Quentin Tarantino Can Teach You About Creativity

We decided to aggregate some of the most interesting tidbits about Tarantino, from plot creation to film execution, to inspire your creative side.

7 Sasquatch-Sized Creativity Myths That Need Busting
Productivity 7 min read

7 Sasquatch-Sized Creativity Myths That Need Busting

Praying to the muses, serendipity, eureka moments — the creative process is clouded in superstition and mystery. Despite the ability to peek into the brain and watch different areas light up on an MRI, neuroscientists are still fairly stumped about exactly what happens during bursts of creative inspiration. With all the obscurity surrounding creative thought, it's

3 Crucial Keys to Creative Project Management
Project Management 5 min read

3 Crucial Keys to Creative Project Management

If you think overseeing creative projects and supervising creative teams is the same as managing a project with software developers or a manufacturing crew, you may want to think again. Every group has its own quirks and unique concerns that must be taken into consideration if you're going to be an effective leader. Below are the three crucial keys to successfully managing a project with creatives.