He wanted to come and see what happened in the creative department.

The committee also looked at the kind of work the creative department was doing.

I know my colleagues in the creative department do not agree.

But in the process, the creative department has undergone changes.

He was appointed as the head of the third creative department in April 2001.

The creative department of advertising sales put together the section.

Executives in the creative department said the new system had made a welcomed difference.

"It's a challenge enough to run a creative department where everyone is in the same office," he added, laughing.

To do so, they must be able to guide the creative department effectively from start to finish.

A new entrant into a creative department can expect to be doing such jobs.

The most significant creative department changes have occurred in developing presentations for clients, he said.

Since the series began, executives at Grey say a noticeable change has taken place in the creative department.

Each had its own media, research and creative departments.

Now the creative department is just as likely to be the birthplace of an agency's top managers.

He added: "That's a unique situation in a creative department.

The changes come just a week after the agency shuffled some of the senior executives in its creative department.

"We're working in a creative department in the fashion business."

The creative departments then design the ads while the media planners figure out where they should run.

He was one of the original designers in Nintendo's creative department.

"We want the agency creative department to develop a point of view more in line with what we are looking for," she said.

He has changed the top management of the agency, while leaving its backbone, the creative department, intact.

But the Thompson effort involves the entire agency, not just a handful of people in the creative department.

But from 6 to 12 months before his leave was announced, he had become less directly engaged in the day-to-day operations of the creative department.

The agency laid off about a dozen people earlier this year but said those were related to a restructuring in the creative department.

Not by a marketing plan or an advertising campaign or a creative department.