What is the Precision Content® Writing Methodology?

Beyond Words: Transforming Content into a Strategic Business Asset

Content is the lifeblood of any organization—a vital business asset that provides meaning, direction, and stability for both internal and external users. As organizations grow, maintaining accurate and usable content becomes increasingly challenging. Simply hiring more content producers or putting in more effort won’t solve this problem.

Empowering content producers with proper systems and a consistent writing methodology is essential. Without these, businesses face:

  • Inconsistent and outdated content
  • Duplication of efforts with no single source of truth
  • Content that can’t be used cross-platform and cannot scale
  • Inefficiency and waste

What is the Precision Content Writing Methodology?

Precision Content® is a method of planning, authoring, and publishing high-value, structured content. It is a robust and systematic content life-cycle solution that helps enterprises manage content as a corporate asset. Precision Content makes content more precise.

This approach can be applied to most business and technical content but is most often applied to

  • product documentation
  • user manuals
  • policies and procedures
  • learning and training content, and
  • help and support content.

How can the Precision Content Writing Methodology help your organization?

The Precision Content Methodology breaks content down into its component parts making it easier to read and understand. Our approach saves your organization time and money in the activity of content authoring, content management and content publishing.

This enables you and your team to start managing your content like an asset, allowing you to unlock benefits such as:

Before & After

Here are before and after examples of content transformed using Precision Content:

Content-Transformation-results

The Value of Structured Content for AI

Structured content is key to overcoming these challenges. It ensures consistency, scalability, and efficiency, making your content AI-ready and future-proof. By adopting structured authoring, your organization can transform its content into a strategic asset that drives business success.

Precision Content Before and After Content Transformation Infographic

Key Advantages

These are the key advantages of Precision Content:

Adapted-Structured-Authoring-MethodologyAdapted structured authoring methodology

Precision Content adapts structured authoring best practices to a rich semantically-structured technology framework. Teams of authors and contributors are trained to produce modular, concise, and consistent content. This is critical to developing effective, scalable, and sustainable content.

Interoperability-of-XMLInteroperability of XML

Precision Content is based on DITA – the fastest growing open XML standard in the world. You are free to choose the best tools for your content lifecycle. There’s no vendor lock-in, ever.

Multi-Channel-Publishing-and-Future-ProofingMulti-channel publishing and future-proofing

Backed by an XML infrastructure, you can publish to all the formats and devices you need including web, PDF, wiki, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Word, RTF, ePub, and many others. Better yet, you are future-proofing your content for whatever formats or requirements you might need next year or even 10 years from now.

Guided-Single-Source-Authoring-in-a-Collaborative-EnvironmentGuided single-source authoring in a collaborative environment

Authoring becomes an established method that results in amazingly usable, high-quality content. It is also not prone to errors and inconsistencies introduced by copy and paste. Once a piece of content exists, it can be reused as many times as needed. Updating it in one place updates it everywhere.

Three laws

These are the three laws that support the content strategy.

Learn the Precision Content method

Learn effective methods to write clear, concise, well-structured content with our specialized online training program.

Choose the training package that fits your needs and learn structured writing strategies that will transform your organization.

Learn more about the Precision Content Writer Training Program or Contact us today.

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