Method Arts - A Consortium

The Sprint

By Mark Bixby // Feb 5, 2007 // Creative // 24 Comments // Permalink

$11M over budget, and five years late? Um...

In 2000, TCS America, a US subsidiary of India based Tata Consulting Services was contracted by the State of New Mexico to build an unemployment insurance benefits website - to offset bottlenecking in the Department of Labor’s phone system and office locations. The site needed to provide useful resources, answer questions and allow users to apply for benefits. Their current site (originally contracted for $3.6 M, and due by 2002) left us wondering what had gone wrong.

“Let’s just build it!”

No one…

How to Plan a Party in Five Minutes

By Brian Warren // Sep 17, 2006 // Creative // 11 Comments // Permalink

Back in August, Mark and I were chatting via IM and he asked if I was going to An Event Apart. I told him I wasn’t sure. I hadn’t quit my job yet, so there were a few unknowns as far as timing, finances and whatnot. I guess I’m an easy sell, because just minutes later I was booking my flight.

Flashback to March of this year, when Mark put out the call to give away some free java in exchange for hanging out and chatting about…