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F10-05·F10 — Marketing Organisation

Evaluation and the Art of Feedback

The productive tension

Trustandstructured oversight

The synthesis

Creative work is not improved by blind trust OR by approval-by-committee. It is improved by structured feedback rituals with named decision-makers, clear strategic criteria, and fast turnaround. The evidence-based marketer invests in feedback as an organisational capability, not as a choice between trust and control.

Learning objectives

  • Distinguish between specific, hierarchical, strategic feedback and vague, democratic, aesthetic feedback
  • Explain the "Henry Ford problem" in creative feedback
  • Identify the structural conditions for effective client-agency feedback loops
  • Recognise design-by-committee failure modes
  • Apply Catmull-style Braintrust principles to client-agency dynamics

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