Imagine you’re working on a client’s launch pad website. Three weeks from the proposed launch date, the client comes to you with
an idea for a new section of the website they would like to implement for the initial launch. How should the strategist respond to the client’s new idea?
Ask a series of questions to better understand the new idea; then, strongly recommend that all new ideas be considered and built after the initial launch pad goes live.
Talk to your team about the effort required to implement the client’s new idea. Then slide the launch date back the required five days to implement the new idea.
They should wait to mention any new ideas until after the first six months because the launch pad and first six months of the continuous improvement cycles are already planned out.
This is because it allows the respondent indicate the intensity of his or her feelings by using the agree-disagree response continuum position according to the Likert survey rating scale.
