Analyze Your Content. Be Really Great.
Content for most organizations is a challenge, if not a problem. Solving a problem starts with understanding it. How? By analyzing it. I like Steve Jobs’ take on analysis as quoted in The Perfect Thing. (Emphasis mine.)
When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don’t really understand the complexity of the problem.
Then you get into the problem, and you see that it’s really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That’s sort of the middle, and that’s where most people stop…
But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem — and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.
Make time for content analysis in your next project. Analyze early and completely. It’s the only way to come up with a content solution that works.
And it’s a surefire way to be really great.
