Successful, or on-the-way-to-success companies and organizations all have history that can be captured in a corporate biography. While pulling a corporate biography together is can be a formidable project, the results will be well worth it.
Successful enterprises are the results of fascinating combinations of effort, luck, timing and vision. If you’re embarking on a history of a long-established company you may be faced with a wealth of source material that needs to be reviewed and organized: news articles, photos, legal documents and the like. Depending on how old the organization is you may or may not be able to talk to some or all of the critical people who launched the enterprise. The younger the company or organization the more source material, including people, is likely to be available. Someone internal could be assigned (or volunteer!) to write the corporate biography, or you could hire a professional writer to take on the task.
Captured in book form, a corporate biography can then be used for many purposes such as:
- a commemorative gift to employees and board members and others;
- part of welcome package (New Hire Kits) for new employees;
- an element in your trade show display.
Writing Your Corporate Biography
The most challenging aspect of this book is likely to be the development of the initial manuscript: the gathering of source material (which may include interviews), evaluation, organization of those materials, followed by the creation of the narrative that arises from them. As with any such undertaking there’s likely to be a couple of drafts, editing, copy-editing and final proofing before the next phase which is the design of the physical book.
If you have any questions about creating a Corporate Biography give us a call at 330-597-8560. We’re happy to help you get the most out of your printing project.
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