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A Forrester Consulting Thought Leadership Paper Commissioned By Sitecore


The Multichannel Maturity Mandate
A Research Study Finds Proven Results, Significant Faults, And A Path To Higher Gains

May 2012
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Table Of Contents

Executive Summary .............................................................................................................................................................. 2

Multichannel Marketing Is A Proven Discipline.................................................................................................................. 3

Multichannel Marketers Reveal Significant Business Gains ............................................................................................... 5

Mature Multichannel Marketers Employ Different Practices .............................................................................................. 7

There Is Still An Opportunity To Improve ........................................................................................................................... 9

Taking Multichannel Marketing To The Next Level ......................................................................................................... 11

Key Recommendations ....................................................................................................................................................... 13

Appendix A: Methodology ................................................................................................................................................. 14

Appendix B: Demographics/Data ....................................................................................................................................... 14



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Executive Summary
Today’s customer has much more control over the buying process than today’s marketer does. Now that the Web and
social media are part of virtually everyone’s daily life, buyers have more choices (more sources, more outlets, more
offers) and more opinions (from pundits to peers) to consider.

The approach that marketers have adopted to manage and optimize customer engagement across the burgeoning
landscape of customer touchpoints is generally referred to as multichannel marketing. In late 2011, Sitecore
commissioned Forrester Consulting to research current and planned practices in multichannel marketing. We found that
marketers who have adopted multichannel marketing practices have realized significant business benefits, ranging from
improved campaign performance to higher return on marketing investment (ROMI). Evidence suggests there is
opportunity for additional, significant gains through better organizational alignment, process definition, and technology
integration.


Key Findings
Forrester’s study yielded five key findings:

    • Marketers have accepted multichannel marketing as common practice. Marketers are familiar with the
         concepts and practices of multichannel marketing. Forty percent of our survey respondents assessed themselves
         as mature practitioners of multichannel marketing. Another 40% were in transition. Only 5% of respondents had
         no plans to implement multichannel marketing.

    • Perceived skills gap impedes multichannel marketing efforts. Respondents who were not practicing
         multichannel marketing had high perceptions of the potential value. When we asked them why moving toward an
         integrated multichannel marketing strategy was not more of a priority, the responses pointed toward a lack of
         knowledge and skills, as well as a dependence on external marketing services partners.

    • Mature practitioners have realized significant business gains. Marketers who claimed to be mature
         practitioners of multichannel marketing reported significant business gains. Benefits range from the tactical
         (improving campaign results) to the strategic (increasing ROMI).

    • Mature practitioners have significantly different practices. Those marketers who self-assessed as mature
         reported significant differences in their approach to multichannel marketing: They are more likely to be
         aggressive adopters of technology; they are more inclined to work in close partnership with IT; and they
         collaborate more with sales on setting goals and executing programs.

    • Even the most mature multichannel marketers have opportunity to improve. Disjointed marketing
         processes, which are only partially automated, represent the norm. Further process integration, supported by
         newer technologies, offers significant opportunity to drive incremental benefit from multichannel marketing
         efforts.




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Multichannel Marketing Is A Proven Discipline
The number and variety of channels through which buyers interact with sellers has proliferated dramatically in just a
few years. Buyers are accessing these channels from an increasingly diverse array of devices (smartphones, tablets,
PCs) adding to the complexity (see Figure 1). Marketers, channel strategy leaders, and content managers have reacted
to the multi-touchpoint customer with multichannel marketing strategies; these strategies use a combination of process,
technology, and organizational alignment to engage current and prospective customers in all of the digital, social, and
offline channels that are part of the buyer’s purchase process.


Figure 1
Multichannel Marketing Is Necessary To Engage The Multi-Touchpoint Customer




Source: “The Emergence Of Customer Experience Management Solutions,” Forrester Research, Inc., August 10, 2011



Optimizing a multichannel customer engagement model is a challenging endeavor. Which channels are customers
using for research; which to compare; which to buy? How does experience in one channel affect behavior in another?
How is it measured? How is it leveraged? Without the knowledge, derived from data, about the customer’s experience
and engagement, across email, websites, and social channels, marketers cannot devise a strategy to sustain profitable
engagement across the entire customer life cycle. Worse, inconsistent or contradictory experiences across channels
create barriers (sometimes ones that can never be removed) to customer engagement.

Understanding the customer journey across these touchpoints is essential to the success of any marketing program.
Marketers need to understand which specific channels customers use, when they use them, and how they engage with
these channels. With data, and the knowledge it drives, marketers can provide targeted content and offers that serve to
both improve the customer experience and increase conversion rates.




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Forrester Consulting surveyed 226 marketing professionals in North American, Europe, and Asia Pacific geographies.
Survey participants came from multiple industries and represented a mix of B2C, B2B, and B2B2C companies. We
asked survey participants to detail their perceptions about multichannel marketing. We asked about current
organization and processes. We asked about the technologies used for multichannel marketing. And, we asked
respondents to validate the benefits and realized gains from their investments in multichannel marketing. Our research
found that:

    • Multichannel marketing is a widely adopted practice. In our survey, 40% of respondents called themselves
          “mature” in the practice of multichannel marketing. Forty-one percent reported that they are transitioning to
          multichannel marketing. The discipline of multichannel marketing has been applied to largely the same extent
          regardless of the company size or the customer type, and across geography (see Figure 2).

    • Multichannel marketing is an opportunity. We asked survey respondents to reveal their perceptions about
          multichannel marketing through a series of declarative statements (see Figure 3). Despite the challenges that
          channel proliferation has generated, marketers regard multichannel marketing as an opportunity for gain and
          improvement, rather than as a solution to a problem. For example, 77% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed
          with the statement, “We will drive more sales and profit by evolving into an effective multichannel marketing
          company.” Only 35% responded in kind to the contrapositive statement, “We lose business because we are not
          able to integrate customer interactions across multiple channels.”


Figure 2
Multichannel Marketing Adoption And Maturity

          “Which of the following best describes your marketing organization's stance toward multichannel marketing?”
                               We have been practicing multichannel marketing for long enough to call ourselves “mature”
                               We are transitioning to multichannel marketing
                               We plan to begin our transition to multichannel marketing by the end of 2012
                               We are interested in multichannel marketing, but have no immediate plans to adopt it

      Column %
                                       40%                                              41%                                14%          5%


             0%                              25%                        50%                                  75%                        100%
                                                         Mature multichannel marketers . . .*
                          By customer type                           By geography                               By company size

          Mostly or exclusively                                                                      20,000+ employees     6%
                                                      45%           Europe                  38%
                  B2B
                                                                                                         5,000 to 19,999
                                                                                                                           9%
                                                                                                           employees
                                                             North America                   46%          1,000 to 4,999
       Equally B2C and B2B                            47%                                                                        19%
                                                                                                           employees

                                                                                                   500 to 999 employees           21%
          Mostly or exclusively                                Asia Pacific           26%
                                                31%
                  B2C                                                                              100 to 499 employees                  46%

                                                        Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers
                 *90 global marketing decision-makers who consider their organizations to be “mature” practitioners of multichannel marketing
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011




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Figure 3
Perceptions About Multichannel Marketing Are Positive And Aspirational

            “To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements about multichannel marketing?”
             Ratings of 4 and 5 shown, based on a scale of 1–5 where 1 = ‘Completely disagree’ and 5 = ‘Completely agree’
                                                  4                  5–Completely agree

       We will drive more sales and profit by evolving into an effective
                      multichannel marketing company
                                                                                         46%                             31%

      Successfully integrating our multiple channels under a single
 integrated marketing strategy will be critical to our long-term success
                                                                                           48%                            28%

      A multichannel customer is worth substantially more to us than a
                         single channel customer
                                                                                         47%                        18%

    Our company must rethink how it services customers to become a
                    truly multichannel company
                                                                                       45%                         16%

      A multichannel customer costs us more to manage than a single
                           channel customer
                                                                                     39%                     15%

           Customer experience is negatively impacted by inconsistent
                 treatment across different marketing channels
                                                                                     36%                14%

 Consolidating customer feedback gathered from multiple channels is
                              difficult
                                                                                   34%                 15%

       Our customer satisfaction scores are lower than they should be
         because we are not able to effectively integrate customer             25%               12%
                  interactions across multiple channels
     We lose business because we are not able to integrate customer
                  interactions across multiple channels
                                                                               24%              11%


                                                                      0%               20%             40%               60%    80%
                                                   Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011




Multichannel Marketers Reveal Significant Business Gains
Companies that identified themselves as mature multichannel marketers have achieved significant benefits (see Figure
4). The biggest gain reported by respondents was in the dimension of reach, with 48% of respondents reporting more
than 15% increase in impressions. The second highest benefits were realized in customer satisfaction, with 43% of
respondents reporting more improvements of more than 15%. Realized benefits extended beyond the marketing
organization; 24% reported more than a 15% reduction in sales cycle times. Our research found a mix of strategic and
tactical gains for a variety of stakeholders:

    • Marketing practitioners experience improvements in campaign performance. Effective use of multichannel
         marketing techniques has been proven to improve campaign performance by improving clicks and conversion
         rates and increasing customer engagement. More than 60% of the mature multichannel practitioners reported
         more than a 10% increase in campaign payback.

    • Marketing executives found improvements in operational performance. Forty percent of mature
         multichannel marketers reported increases of more than 15% in revenue that are attributed to marketing
         programs. Sixty percent reported a gain of more than 10% in return on marketing investment. Mature
         practitioners also reported that they were more involved in business strategy formulation and adjustment than less
         mature peer companies.




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Figure 4
Mature Multichannel Practitioners Reported Significant Business Results

                “What improvements has your organization achieved to date, as a result of bringing your
                         multichannel tactics under a single integrated marketing umbrella?”
             1%–5% improvement                      6%–15% improvement                         More than 15% improvement
      Revenue that can be attributed to marketing activities         17%                 40%                        40%
                       Customer satisfaction/loyalty measures      8%               45%                            43%
                            Returns on marketing investment             21%                 40%                      34%
                                                  Impressions      10%           33%                         48%
                        Reduction in average sales cycle time      12%                    55%                        24%
                                          Campaign payback         8%              41%                        40%
                           Reduction in agency expenditures           20%              30%                    37%
                  Reduction in per customer acquisition costs      12%                42%                      32%

                                                                0%              25%               50%              75%            100%
       Base: 90 global marketing decision-makers who consider their organizations to be “mature” practitioners of multichannel marketing
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011



    • Multichannel marketing increased alignment between sales and marketing. The self-assessed mature
         multichannel marketers reported several outcomes about improved collaboration and alignment with sales. These
         marketing teams are 11% more likely to be a primary contributor to the sales pipeline, and 40% more likely to
         collaborate with sales on field programs. In addition, 60% of this group attributed a reduction in the end-to-end
         sales cycle time of more than 10% to their multichannel marketing efforts.

    • Multichannel marketing has significant impact on customer satisfaction. When we asked survey respondents
         about perceived benefits from investments in multichannel marketing, “customer satisfaction” was at the top of
         the list with 27% of respondents listing it as their top choice. In fact, the survey results revealed significant gains
         in customer satisfaction, with 69% of mature practitioners reporting CSAT (customer satisfaction) improvements
         of more than 10%.

    • Tactical results drive strategic gains. Our research uncovered links between tactical results (such as increasing
         campaign conversions) and strategic gains such as improving return on marketing investment (see Figure 5).




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Figure 5
Tactical Results From Multichannel Marketing Drive Strategic Results




       Base: 90 global marketing decision-makers who consider their organizations to be “mature” practitioners of multichannel marketing
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011




Mature Multichannel Marketers Employ Different Practices
Although multichannel marketing is perceived to be a mature discipline, our research found significant differences in
actual practice. Our research revealed that mature multichannel practitioners:

    • Collaboratively engage with sales. Mature multichannel marketers have a higher recognized contribution to
         pipeline and higher revenue attribution than other marketers. So, it’s not surprising that they also indicated better
         collaboration with their sales colleagues. The enhanced interaction ranges from executing field programs to
         working, jointly, on collateral and messaging (see Figure 6).

    • Aggressively adopt technology. Sixty-four percent of mature multichannel marketers reported that they are at
         the forefront of technology adoption, versus only 42% for the average company. A scant 14% said that they are
         in-synch or lag the wider market, versus 22% for the average (see Figure 7).




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    • Align with IT. Fifty-six percent of mature multichannel marketers reported an “excellent” relationship with IT,
         and characterized the relationship as one in which IT “understands our requirements and we almost always
         achieve our technology objectives.” Only 28% of the marketers who said that they were interested or planning
         more multichannel investment reported an “excellent” relationship (see Figure 8).


Figure 6
Marketing Multichannel Marketers Have Better Collaboration With Sales

                “How would you characterize the relationship between your marketing and sales teams for each of
                                                    the following activities?”
                                     Combined “Strong” and “Very strong” responses shown

                                                  Mature         Interested, planning, or in transition

            Selecting revenue, growth, and other business                                                                     86%
                               targets                                                                           68%

                                                                                                                            81%
                       Choosing and executing field programs                                              58%

                                                                                                                      73%
                       Administering leads and lead pipelines
                                                                                                          57%

                        Crafting and producing messages and                                                                  85%
                                       collateral                                                               64%
                                                   Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011




Figure 7
Mature Multichannel Marketers Are At The Forefront Of Technology Adoption

           “What statement best describes your marketing function's stance regarding marketing technology?”
                          Try to be at the forefront when it comes to exploiting marketing technology
                          Somewhat aggressive, but like to make sure a technology is proven before committing
                          We tend to adopt technologies in sync with the wider market
                          Typically lag the market when it comes to technology adoption

                 All respondents                      42%                                 36%                     18%         4%



           Mature multichannel                                   64%                                  21%              11% 3%

                       In transition              31%                                48%                              18%     2%

            Interested/planning             19%                        42%                                33%                7%

                                       0%                  25%                  50%                   75%                     100%
                                                   Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011




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Figure 8
Mature Multichannel Marketers Have The Most Positive Collaborative Relationships With IT

                       “How well does your marketing team work/collaborate with your company’s IT function?”

         Excellent: IT understands our requirements                                                                                    56%
             and we almost always achieve our                                                                       41%
                     technology objectives                                                          28%
            Good: IT may not always understand our                                                            36%
             requirements, but is responsive to our                                                                               49%
                            needs                                                                                                    53%
            Fair: IT ‘keeps the lights on’ in terms of                   7%
          current processes/objectives, but is slow to                    8%
                    respond to new objectives                                        16%
         Poor: IT doesn’t understand or demonstrate              1%              Mature multichannel (N = 90)
           that they care about our needs and we                  2%             In transition to multichannel (N = 93)
            usually fail to achieve our objectives                2%             Interested/planning for multichannel (N = 43)
                         Base: Global marketing decision-makers at each stage of transition to multichannel marketing practices
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011




There Is Still An Opportunity To Improve
While companies have exercised multichannel strategies for years, even the most mature practitioners struggle to
support integrated customer interactions across multiple channels. Our research indicates that there is a real opportunity
to take multichannel marketing to the next level. Many issues in the practice still remain, such as:

    • Processes are only loosely integrated. We asked respondents to assess how well 12 different marketing
         processes are integrated in the overall marketing business system (see Figure 9). “Customer data management”
         claimed the high mark as a well-integrated process at 43%. “Mobile marketing” ranked at the bottom with only
         25% of respondents indicating that processes for mobile marketing were well integrated into the overall
         marketing mix. Further process integration offers significant opportunity to drive incremental benefit from
         multichannel marketing efforts.

    • Non-integrated point solutions dominate the technology landscape. Marketing teams are challenged when
         creating and managing customer experiences on their websites and other digitally enabled touchpoints because
         the ecosystem of solutions they use is siloed (see Figure 10). Email campaigns are designed and delivered with
         one system; social media campaigns with another; digital events with yet another. Marketing programs and
         customer engagement is planned with no insight into customer behavior on the website. These technology silos
         make it impossible to understand both the impact of campaigns, and the behavior of customers, across multiple
         channels.

    • Customer experience is still largely managed across organizational silos. Organizational silos are a legacy
         problem that still plagues many firms. Too often, they organize personnel, customer data, and marketing
         technology within individual lines of business or channels (see Figure 11). The net result? Customer experience
         becomes more complex, disjointed, and fragmented.




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Figure 9
Mature Practitioners Report More Fully Integrated Processes, Channels, And Technologies — With Room To Grow
                               “What plans, if any, do you have to integrate the following marketing processes?”
                                      Response indicating full integration into the marketing framework shown

                                        Email marketing                                                                           43%
                            Customer data management                                                                              43%
                                            eCommerce                                                                        41%
                       Customer experience management                                                                        41%
                                     Marketing analytics                                                                    40%
                                       Social marketing                                                               37%
                                          Web analytics                                                               37%
                                              Workflows                                                         33%
                                         Web marketing                                                      32%
            Demand program/campaign management                                                             31%
                                        Social reporting                                            26%
                                  Mobile marketing                                              25%
                                               Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011




Figure 10
Standalone, Non-Integrated Tools Predominate In Multichannel Marketing

               “What best describes the specialized marketing tool(s) are you using to support each of the following
                                         functions in a high performance organization?”
                                  We use a single standalone tool
                                  We use multiple standalone or combination tools, not integrated
                                  We use a single integrated tool that spans multiple processes
                                  We use multiple standalone tools, integrated using customized collaboration workflows
                                  No specialized tool; we do this manually or use office tools (i.e., spreadsheets)
                                    eCommerce         11%                     50%                           17%      17%                  3%

                                 Social reporting          17%                    36%                     17%               17%           3%

   Demand program/campaign management                    17%                   36%                    25%                   17%           3%

                               Mobile marketing            19%                          39%                     11%         14%           3%

                                Email marketing            19%                    39%                     17%           17%         6%

                               Social marketing              25%                   22%                22%               14%         6%

                             Marketing analytics            25%                         39%                      22%              11%

                                      Workflows             25%                      36%                        28%           6% 6%

                                  Web analytics               28%                        36%                     22%               11%
                                                                                                                                  3%
          Customer experience management                         31%                       36%                    25%                6%

                                 Web marketing                    33%                    17%                    28%                8%

                   Customer data management                      33%                          39%                     17%         11%

                                                    0%                  25%                50%                  75%                     100%
                                                    Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011




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Figure 11
Marketing Organizational Structures Complicate Multichannel Marketing

                       “Which of the following best describes your firm's internal organizational approach to supporting
                                                     marketing across multiple channels?”

                Centralized marketing team, consolidating all technology and
                                                                                                                     40%
                 services across channels, products, and corporate groups


                                           Marketing is organized by channel                                25%


            Decentralized marketing team, brands, product teams, corporate
                                                                                                      18%
                   groups have independent marketing capabilities

            Hub and spoke — certain capabilities are centrally supported but
                                                                                                  17%
               product teams have independent marketing capabilities
                                                 Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011




Taking Multichannel Marketing To The Next Level
There is no de facto standard definition of multichannel marketing. Forrester explores the practice by describing four
levels of multichannel maturity, identifying the key characteristics of each level (see Figure 12). The four levels are:

    • Channel entropy. Non-integrated channel operations are the baseline of the multichannel maturity model.
        Marketers in this category independently manage customer interactions within each channel. They may have
        multiple teams executing programs in the same channel. The business logic behind the customer engagement
        strategy is different in each channel. Companies operating at this stage maintain independent channel-specific
        data stores. No true cross-channel capabilities exist across the enterprise. Only 5% of the respondents in our
        survey fell into this category.

    • Channel independence. Managed channel operation is the mode in the next stage in the maturity model.
        Marketers in this category still manage customer engagement independently within each channel. However, they
        have integrated the teams executing programs in the same channel. The lack of process and technology
        integration we discovered leads to the conclusion that more than 50% of the respondents in the commissioned
        Forrester survey, who characterized themselves as “mature” multichannel practitioners, fell into this category.

    • Multichannel integration. Integrated, cross-channel visibility characterizes the third stage of maturity.
        Marketers operating at this level have a single view of customer data, interactions, and transactions across
        multiple channels, in near real time. The integrated view of the customer’s multichannel interactions enables
        marketers to execute cross-channel campaigns and to analyze the results. However, this integration is at the data
        level, not the process level. Customers can, and usually do, have different experiences in different channels.

    • Multichannel engagement. Holistic cross-channel customer engagement is the practice of the most mature
        multichannel marketers. Marketers operating at this level have a single view of customer data, interactions, and
        transactions across multiple channels. Processes are consistent across channel and user interfaces. Customer
        engagement in each channel is aware, and informed by, offers and interactions in other channels. Customers
        expect and receive consistent, reliable interactions with the company.




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Figure 12
The Multichannel Maturity Model




Source: Forrester Research, Inc.




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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS
Buyer behavior has irrevocably changed. Marketers must evolve to meet the expectations and demands of the
multichannel customer. If you have not already transformed your customer engagement processes into integrated,
customer-centric processes, you are behind the vanguard. As you strategize and plan to advance on the multichannel
maturity curve, you must:

    •     Create a culture that worships customer knowledge. The full promise of multichannel marketing is realized only
          when all customer interactions are calibrated around the customer’s current context and historical interaction with
          your company. Tackling different types of data and aggregating it for collective insight is an essential characteristic
          of any multichannel marketing system.

    •     Stop thinking about campaigns and start thinking engagement. Marketers who continue to build campaigns,
          and make offers, around products and product features will be perceived as “tone deaf” to the multichannel
          customer. Customers will engage with marketers who meet their needs — their changing needs — for different
          information and options during the buying journey. Marketers who continue to “go to customer” with product-
          centric campaigns and offers risk becoming irrelevant.

    •     Transform your website into a pervasive customer engagement hub. Too many marketers have grown
          accustomed to thinking of their websites as a collection of pages. That thinking is obsolete when virtually all
          multichannel touches aim to drive customers to your website. Leverage highly dynamic websites to drive unique
          experiences for customers. Dynamically deliver content, messages, experiences, products, and offers from pools of
          content assets based upon knowledge of the customer’s profile, behavior, and engagement history.

    •     Build the technical infrastructure to support dynamic, cross-channel conversations with customers. It’s
          simply not possible to manage the delivery of dynamic, targeted, consistent content, offers, products, across
          digitally enabled customer touchpoints when marketing tasks are semi-automated with a series of unintegrated
          software tools.

    •     Find a ”trusted IT advisor.” Marketing is — and should be — inexorably bound up in technology, as the majority
          of customer touchpoints are digitally enabled and the digital landscape of customer experiences is evolving at a
          breakneck pace. Marketing execs need a trusted IT advisor. Many CMOs will rethink the relationship with IT; some
          will turn to an external service provider; others will create a shadow IT organization in marketing operations.
          Whatever the source, find your IT champion.

    •     Don’t overlook change management. Multichannel marketing is not about giving an existing team some new
          tools to go about the business of marketing. It’s a strategic initiative that will disrupt, and then transform, your
          current marketing processes. Your marketing team will be challenged to define new processes, learn new
          technology, and rethink their role in the company. Keep a constant program of communication and engagement to
          facilitate the change.

    •     Choose technology partners that can help you rack up short-term gains on the path to the full vision. The
          secret to selecting technology solutions for multichannel marketing is to partner with a vendor that can
          immediately help improve your current operations, and also has the strategy and road map to help you realize your
          long-term vision. Select on vision, but roll out on tactics. The selection of the right vendor will enable a short-term
          ROMI as well as the surest path to the grand strategy.




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Appendix A: Methodology
In this study, Forrester Consulting conducted an online survey of 226 organizations in the US, Canada, Germany,
Scandinavian countries, Singapore, and the UK to evaluate perceptions around and the current state of multichannel
marketing practices. Survey participants included marketing decision-makers in both B2B and B2C organizations with
100 or more employees. Questions provided to the participants asked about current marketing practices, processes, and
technologies, as well as perceived and actual returns on multichannel investments/practices. The study was conducted
in December 2011.




Appendix B: Demographics/Data

Figure 13
Geographies And Industries Represented

            “What country/region are you located in?”            “To which industry would you say that your firm/organization
                                                                                         belongs?”

                                                                                                             Retail                 10%
                       United States                             44%                                                               9%
                                                                         Healthcare provider (includes hospitals)                  9%
                                                                                                                                 8%
                          Germany                17%                                        Professional services               7%
                                                                                                                           5%
                                                                              Pharmaceutical and biotechnology           4%
                                                                                                                         4%
                   United Kingdom                15%                                 Finished consumer products          4%
                                                                                                                         4%
                                                                                                          Banking        4%
                                                                                                                         4%
                          Singapore         11%                           IT consulting and outsourcing services        3%
                                                                                                                        3%
       Scandinavian country                                                 Insurance (includes P&C, life, health)      3%
                                                                                                                        3%
    (Denmark, Norway, Sweden,               9%                                                           Software
             Finland)                                                                                                  2%
                                                                               Construction and related services       2%
                           Australia   3%                                                                              2%
                                                                                    Entertainment and recreation       2%
                                                                                                                      1%
                                                                Metals, mining, agriculture, and forestry products    1%
                            Canada     1%                                                                             1%
                                                                         Furniture, home furnishings, appliances      1%
                                                                                                                      1%
                                                                 Electricity, water, energy, and waste distribution   1%
                                                   Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011




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Figure 14
Respondents’ Organizational Size And Marketing Department Size

                       “How many employees work for your            “Can you please provide your best estimate of how
                             company worldwide?”                   many employees work for your company's marketing
                                                                               department(s) worldwide?”
                              20,000+
                             employees,                                                          Less than 10
               5,000 to         6%
               19,999                                                       100+                 employees,
             employees,                                                   employees,                 5%
                 8%                                                         30%                             10 to 25
                                                  100 to 499                                               employees,
              1,000 to                            employees,                                                 22%
               4,999                                43%
            employees,
                21%
                                                                     75 to 99
                                                                    employees,
                                                                       1%
                            500 to 999                                                                    25 to 49
                                                                             50 to 74
                            employees,                                                                   employees,
                                                                            employees,
                              22%                                             17%                          25%

                                                Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011




Figure 15
Respondent Job Level And Customer Details

         “Which of the following most closely describes your                    “To whom does your company sell
                              position?”                                                  primarily?”
                                                                                Exclusively                   Exclusively
          Senior-most marketing                                               businesses, 8%                consumers, 16%
          decision-maker in the                              49%          Mostly
                company                                               businesses, but
                                                                           some
                                                                      consumers, 11%
          Executive in marketing                       40%

                                                                                                                     Mostly
          Manager of marketing                                         Consumers and                             consumers, but
             reporting to an              12%                            businesses                                  some
          executive in marketing                                           roughly                              businesses, 26%
                                                                        equally, 39%

                                                Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011




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  • 1. A Forrester Consulting Thought Leadership Paper Commissioned By Sitecore The Multichannel Maturity Mandate A Research Study Finds Proven Results, Significant Faults, And A Path To Higher Gains May 2012
  • 2. Forrester Consulting The Multichannel Maturity Mandate Table Of Contents Executive Summary .............................................................................................................................................................. 2 Multichannel Marketing Is A Proven Discipline.................................................................................................................. 3 Multichannel Marketers Reveal Significant Business Gains ............................................................................................... 5 Mature Multichannel Marketers Employ Different Practices .............................................................................................. 7 There Is Still An Opportunity To Improve ........................................................................................................................... 9 Taking Multichannel Marketing To The Next Level ......................................................................................................... 11 Key Recommendations ....................................................................................................................................................... 13 Appendix A: Methodology ................................................................................................................................................. 14 Appendix B: Demographics/Data ....................................................................................................................................... 14 © 2012, Forrester Research, Inc. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is strictly prohibited. Information is based on best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. Forrester®, Technographics®, Forrester Wave, RoleView, TechRadar, and Total Economic Impact are trademarks of Forrester Research, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. For additional information, go to www.forrester.com. [1-J0J6K8] About Forrester Consulting Forrester Consulting provides independent and objective research-based consulting to help leaders succeed in their organizations. Ranging in scope from a short strategy session to custom projects, Forrester’s Consulting services connect you directly with research analysts who apply expert insight to your specific business challenges. For more information, visit www.forrester.com/consulting. Page 1
  • 3. Forrester Consulting The Multichannel Maturity Mandate Executive Summary Today’s customer has much more control over the buying process than today’s marketer does. Now that the Web and social media are part of virtually everyone’s daily life, buyers have more choices (more sources, more outlets, more offers) and more opinions (from pundits to peers) to consider. The approach that marketers have adopted to manage and optimize customer engagement across the burgeoning landscape of customer touchpoints is generally referred to as multichannel marketing. In late 2011, Sitecore commissioned Forrester Consulting to research current and planned practices in multichannel marketing. We found that marketers who have adopted multichannel marketing practices have realized significant business benefits, ranging from improved campaign performance to higher return on marketing investment (ROMI). Evidence suggests there is opportunity for additional, significant gains through better organizational alignment, process definition, and technology integration. Key Findings Forrester’s study yielded five key findings: • Marketers have accepted multichannel marketing as common practice. Marketers are familiar with the concepts and practices of multichannel marketing. Forty percent of our survey respondents assessed themselves as mature practitioners of multichannel marketing. Another 40% were in transition. Only 5% of respondents had no plans to implement multichannel marketing. • Perceived skills gap impedes multichannel marketing efforts. Respondents who were not practicing multichannel marketing had high perceptions of the potential value. When we asked them why moving toward an integrated multichannel marketing strategy was not more of a priority, the responses pointed toward a lack of knowledge and skills, as well as a dependence on external marketing services partners. • Mature practitioners have realized significant business gains. Marketers who claimed to be mature practitioners of multichannel marketing reported significant business gains. Benefits range from the tactical (improving campaign results) to the strategic (increasing ROMI). • Mature practitioners have significantly different practices. Those marketers who self-assessed as mature reported significant differences in their approach to multichannel marketing: They are more likely to be aggressive adopters of technology; they are more inclined to work in close partnership with IT; and they collaborate more with sales on setting goals and executing programs. • Even the most mature multichannel marketers have opportunity to improve. Disjointed marketing processes, which are only partially automated, represent the norm. Further process integration, supported by newer technologies, offers significant opportunity to drive incremental benefit from multichannel marketing efforts. Page 2
  • 4. Forrester Consulting The Multichannel Maturity Mandate Multichannel Marketing Is A Proven Discipline The number and variety of channels through which buyers interact with sellers has proliferated dramatically in just a few years. Buyers are accessing these channels from an increasingly diverse array of devices (smartphones, tablets, PCs) adding to the complexity (see Figure 1). Marketers, channel strategy leaders, and content managers have reacted to the multi-touchpoint customer with multichannel marketing strategies; these strategies use a combination of process, technology, and organizational alignment to engage current and prospective customers in all of the digital, social, and offline channels that are part of the buyer’s purchase process. Figure 1 Multichannel Marketing Is Necessary To Engage The Multi-Touchpoint Customer Source: “The Emergence Of Customer Experience Management Solutions,” Forrester Research, Inc., August 10, 2011 Optimizing a multichannel customer engagement model is a challenging endeavor. Which channels are customers using for research; which to compare; which to buy? How does experience in one channel affect behavior in another? How is it measured? How is it leveraged? Without the knowledge, derived from data, about the customer’s experience and engagement, across email, websites, and social channels, marketers cannot devise a strategy to sustain profitable engagement across the entire customer life cycle. Worse, inconsistent or contradictory experiences across channels create barriers (sometimes ones that can never be removed) to customer engagement. Understanding the customer journey across these touchpoints is essential to the success of any marketing program. Marketers need to understand which specific channels customers use, when they use them, and how they engage with these channels. With data, and the knowledge it drives, marketers can provide targeted content and offers that serve to both improve the customer experience and increase conversion rates. Page 3
  • 5. Forrester Consulting The Multichannel Maturity Mandate Forrester Consulting surveyed 226 marketing professionals in North American, Europe, and Asia Pacific geographies. Survey participants came from multiple industries and represented a mix of B2C, B2B, and B2B2C companies. We asked survey participants to detail their perceptions about multichannel marketing. We asked about current organization and processes. We asked about the technologies used for multichannel marketing. And, we asked respondents to validate the benefits and realized gains from their investments in multichannel marketing. Our research found that: • Multichannel marketing is a widely adopted practice. In our survey, 40% of respondents called themselves “mature” in the practice of multichannel marketing. Forty-one percent reported that they are transitioning to multichannel marketing. The discipline of multichannel marketing has been applied to largely the same extent regardless of the company size or the customer type, and across geography (see Figure 2). • Multichannel marketing is an opportunity. We asked survey respondents to reveal their perceptions about multichannel marketing through a series of declarative statements (see Figure 3). Despite the challenges that channel proliferation has generated, marketers regard multichannel marketing as an opportunity for gain and improvement, rather than as a solution to a problem. For example, 77% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, “We will drive more sales and profit by evolving into an effective multichannel marketing company.” Only 35% responded in kind to the contrapositive statement, “We lose business because we are not able to integrate customer interactions across multiple channels.” Figure 2 Multichannel Marketing Adoption And Maturity “Which of the following best describes your marketing organization's stance toward multichannel marketing?” We have been practicing multichannel marketing for long enough to call ourselves “mature” We are transitioning to multichannel marketing We plan to begin our transition to multichannel marketing by the end of 2012 We are interested in multichannel marketing, but have no immediate plans to adopt it Column % 40% 41% 14% 5% 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Mature multichannel marketers . . .* By customer type By geography By company size Mostly or exclusively 20,000+ employees 6% 45% Europe 38% B2B 5,000 to 19,999 9% employees North America 46% 1,000 to 4,999 Equally B2C and B2B 47% 19% employees 500 to 999 employees 21% Mostly or exclusively Asia Pacific 26% 31% B2C 100 to 499 employees 46% Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers *90 global marketing decision-makers who consider their organizations to be “mature” practitioners of multichannel marketing Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011 Page 4
  • 6. Forrester Consulting The Multichannel Maturity Mandate Figure 3 Perceptions About Multichannel Marketing Are Positive And Aspirational “To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements about multichannel marketing?” Ratings of 4 and 5 shown, based on a scale of 1–5 where 1 = ‘Completely disagree’ and 5 = ‘Completely agree’ 4 5–Completely agree We will drive more sales and profit by evolving into an effective multichannel marketing company 46% 31% Successfully integrating our multiple channels under a single integrated marketing strategy will be critical to our long-term success 48% 28% A multichannel customer is worth substantially more to us than a single channel customer 47% 18% Our company must rethink how it services customers to become a truly multichannel company 45% 16% A multichannel customer costs us more to manage than a single channel customer 39% 15% Customer experience is negatively impacted by inconsistent treatment across different marketing channels 36% 14% Consolidating customer feedback gathered from multiple channels is difficult 34% 15% Our customer satisfaction scores are lower than they should be because we are not able to effectively integrate customer 25% 12% interactions across multiple channels We lose business because we are not able to integrate customer interactions across multiple channels 24% 11% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011 Multichannel Marketers Reveal Significant Business Gains Companies that identified themselves as mature multichannel marketers have achieved significant benefits (see Figure 4). The biggest gain reported by respondents was in the dimension of reach, with 48% of respondents reporting more than 15% increase in impressions. The second highest benefits were realized in customer satisfaction, with 43% of respondents reporting more improvements of more than 15%. Realized benefits extended beyond the marketing organization; 24% reported more than a 15% reduction in sales cycle times. Our research found a mix of strategic and tactical gains for a variety of stakeholders: • Marketing practitioners experience improvements in campaign performance. Effective use of multichannel marketing techniques has been proven to improve campaign performance by improving clicks and conversion rates and increasing customer engagement. More than 60% of the mature multichannel practitioners reported more than a 10% increase in campaign payback. • Marketing executives found improvements in operational performance. Forty percent of mature multichannel marketers reported increases of more than 15% in revenue that are attributed to marketing programs. Sixty percent reported a gain of more than 10% in return on marketing investment. Mature practitioners also reported that they were more involved in business strategy formulation and adjustment than less mature peer companies. Page 5
  • 7. Forrester Consulting The Multichannel Maturity Mandate Figure 4 Mature Multichannel Practitioners Reported Significant Business Results “What improvements has your organization achieved to date, as a result of bringing your multichannel tactics under a single integrated marketing umbrella?” 1%–5% improvement 6%–15% improvement More than 15% improvement Revenue that can be attributed to marketing activities 17% 40% 40% Customer satisfaction/loyalty measures 8% 45% 43% Returns on marketing investment 21% 40% 34% Impressions 10% 33% 48% Reduction in average sales cycle time 12% 55% 24% Campaign payback 8% 41% 40% Reduction in agency expenditures 20% 30% 37% Reduction in per customer acquisition costs 12% 42% 32% 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Base: 90 global marketing decision-makers who consider their organizations to be “mature” practitioners of multichannel marketing Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011 • Multichannel marketing increased alignment between sales and marketing. The self-assessed mature multichannel marketers reported several outcomes about improved collaboration and alignment with sales. These marketing teams are 11% more likely to be a primary contributor to the sales pipeline, and 40% more likely to collaborate with sales on field programs. In addition, 60% of this group attributed a reduction in the end-to-end sales cycle time of more than 10% to their multichannel marketing efforts. • Multichannel marketing has significant impact on customer satisfaction. When we asked survey respondents about perceived benefits from investments in multichannel marketing, “customer satisfaction” was at the top of the list with 27% of respondents listing it as their top choice. In fact, the survey results revealed significant gains in customer satisfaction, with 69% of mature practitioners reporting CSAT (customer satisfaction) improvements of more than 10%. • Tactical results drive strategic gains. Our research uncovered links between tactical results (such as increasing campaign conversions) and strategic gains such as improving return on marketing investment (see Figure 5). Page 6
  • 8. Forrester Consulting The Multichannel Maturity Mandate Figure 5 Tactical Results From Multichannel Marketing Drive Strategic Results Base: 90 global marketing decision-makers who consider their organizations to be “mature” practitioners of multichannel marketing Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011 Mature Multichannel Marketers Employ Different Practices Although multichannel marketing is perceived to be a mature discipline, our research found significant differences in actual practice. Our research revealed that mature multichannel practitioners: • Collaboratively engage with sales. Mature multichannel marketers have a higher recognized contribution to pipeline and higher revenue attribution than other marketers. So, it’s not surprising that they also indicated better collaboration with their sales colleagues. The enhanced interaction ranges from executing field programs to working, jointly, on collateral and messaging (see Figure 6). • Aggressively adopt technology. Sixty-four percent of mature multichannel marketers reported that they are at the forefront of technology adoption, versus only 42% for the average company. A scant 14% said that they are in-synch or lag the wider market, versus 22% for the average (see Figure 7). Page 7
  • 9. Forrester Consulting The Multichannel Maturity Mandate • Align with IT. Fifty-six percent of mature multichannel marketers reported an “excellent” relationship with IT, and characterized the relationship as one in which IT “understands our requirements and we almost always achieve our technology objectives.” Only 28% of the marketers who said that they were interested or planning more multichannel investment reported an “excellent” relationship (see Figure 8). Figure 6 Marketing Multichannel Marketers Have Better Collaboration With Sales “How would you characterize the relationship between your marketing and sales teams for each of the following activities?” Combined “Strong” and “Very strong” responses shown Mature Interested, planning, or in transition Selecting revenue, growth, and other business 86% targets 68% 81% Choosing and executing field programs 58% 73% Administering leads and lead pipelines 57% Crafting and producing messages and 85% collateral 64% Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011 Figure 7 Mature Multichannel Marketers Are At The Forefront Of Technology Adoption “What statement best describes your marketing function's stance regarding marketing technology?” Try to be at the forefront when it comes to exploiting marketing technology Somewhat aggressive, but like to make sure a technology is proven before committing We tend to adopt technologies in sync with the wider market Typically lag the market when it comes to technology adoption All respondents 42% 36% 18% 4% Mature multichannel 64% 21% 11% 3% In transition 31% 48% 18% 2% Interested/planning 19% 42% 33% 7% 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011 Page 8
  • 10. Forrester Consulting The Multichannel Maturity Mandate Figure 8 Mature Multichannel Marketers Have The Most Positive Collaborative Relationships With IT “How well does your marketing team work/collaborate with your company’s IT function?” Excellent: IT understands our requirements 56% and we almost always achieve our 41% technology objectives 28% Good: IT may not always understand our 36% requirements, but is responsive to our 49% needs 53% Fair: IT ‘keeps the lights on’ in terms of 7% current processes/objectives, but is slow to 8% respond to new objectives 16% Poor: IT doesn’t understand or demonstrate 1% Mature multichannel (N = 90) that they care about our needs and we 2% In transition to multichannel (N = 93) usually fail to achieve our objectives 2% Interested/planning for multichannel (N = 43) Base: Global marketing decision-makers at each stage of transition to multichannel marketing practices Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011 There Is Still An Opportunity To Improve While companies have exercised multichannel strategies for years, even the most mature practitioners struggle to support integrated customer interactions across multiple channels. Our research indicates that there is a real opportunity to take multichannel marketing to the next level. Many issues in the practice still remain, such as: • Processes are only loosely integrated. We asked respondents to assess how well 12 different marketing processes are integrated in the overall marketing business system (see Figure 9). “Customer data management” claimed the high mark as a well-integrated process at 43%. “Mobile marketing” ranked at the bottom with only 25% of respondents indicating that processes for mobile marketing were well integrated into the overall marketing mix. Further process integration offers significant opportunity to drive incremental benefit from multichannel marketing efforts. • Non-integrated point solutions dominate the technology landscape. Marketing teams are challenged when creating and managing customer experiences on their websites and other digitally enabled touchpoints because the ecosystem of solutions they use is siloed (see Figure 10). Email campaigns are designed and delivered with one system; social media campaigns with another; digital events with yet another. Marketing programs and customer engagement is planned with no insight into customer behavior on the website. These technology silos make it impossible to understand both the impact of campaigns, and the behavior of customers, across multiple channels. • Customer experience is still largely managed across organizational silos. Organizational silos are a legacy problem that still plagues many firms. Too often, they organize personnel, customer data, and marketing technology within individual lines of business or channels (see Figure 11). The net result? Customer experience becomes more complex, disjointed, and fragmented. Page 9
  • 11. Forrester Consulting The Multichannel Maturity Mandate Figure 9 Mature Practitioners Report More Fully Integrated Processes, Channels, And Technologies — With Room To Grow “What plans, if any, do you have to integrate the following marketing processes?” Response indicating full integration into the marketing framework shown Email marketing 43% Customer data management 43% eCommerce 41% Customer experience management 41% Marketing analytics 40% Social marketing 37% Web analytics 37% Workflows 33% Web marketing 32% Demand program/campaign management 31% Social reporting 26% Mobile marketing 25% Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011 Figure 10 Standalone, Non-Integrated Tools Predominate In Multichannel Marketing “What best describes the specialized marketing tool(s) are you using to support each of the following functions in a high performance organization?” We use a single standalone tool We use multiple standalone or combination tools, not integrated We use a single integrated tool that spans multiple processes We use multiple standalone tools, integrated using customized collaboration workflows No specialized tool; we do this manually or use office tools (i.e., spreadsheets) eCommerce 11% 50% 17% 17% 3% Social reporting 17% 36% 17% 17% 3% Demand program/campaign management 17% 36% 25% 17% 3% Mobile marketing 19% 39% 11% 14% 3% Email marketing 19% 39% 17% 17% 6% Social marketing 25% 22% 22% 14% 6% Marketing analytics 25% 39% 22% 11% Workflows 25% 36% 28% 6% 6% Web analytics 28% 36% 22% 11% 3% Customer experience management 31% 36% 25% 6% Web marketing 33% 17% 28% 8% Customer data management 33% 39% 17% 11% 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011 Page 10
  • 12. Forrester Consulting The Multichannel Maturity Mandate Figure 11 Marketing Organizational Structures Complicate Multichannel Marketing “Which of the following best describes your firm's internal organizational approach to supporting marketing across multiple channels?” Centralized marketing team, consolidating all technology and 40% services across channels, products, and corporate groups Marketing is organized by channel 25% Decentralized marketing team, brands, product teams, corporate 18% groups have independent marketing capabilities Hub and spoke — certain capabilities are centrally supported but 17% product teams have independent marketing capabilities Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011 Taking Multichannel Marketing To The Next Level There is no de facto standard definition of multichannel marketing. Forrester explores the practice by describing four levels of multichannel maturity, identifying the key characteristics of each level (see Figure 12). The four levels are: • Channel entropy. Non-integrated channel operations are the baseline of the multichannel maturity model. Marketers in this category independently manage customer interactions within each channel. They may have multiple teams executing programs in the same channel. The business logic behind the customer engagement strategy is different in each channel. Companies operating at this stage maintain independent channel-specific data stores. No true cross-channel capabilities exist across the enterprise. Only 5% of the respondents in our survey fell into this category. • Channel independence. Managed channel operation is the mode in the next stage in the maturity model. Marketers in this category still manage customer engagement independently within each channel. However, they have integrated the teams executing programs in the same channel. The lack of process and technology integration we discovered leads to the conclusion that more than 50% of the respondents in the commissioned Forrester survey, who characterized themselves as “mature” multichannel practitioners, fell into this category. • Multichannel integration. Integrated, cross-channel visibility characterizes the third stage of maturity. Marketers operating at this level have a single view of customer data, interactions, and transactions across multiple channels, in near real time. The integrated view of the customer’s multichannel interactions enables marketers to execute cross-channel campaigns and to analyze the results. However, this integration is at the data level, not the process level. Customers can, and usually do, have different experiences in different channels. • Multichannel engagement. Holistic cross-channel customer engagement is the practice of the most mature multichannel marketers. Marketers operating at this level have a single view of customer data, interactions, and transactions across multiple channels. Processes are consistent across channel and user interfaces. Customer engagement in each channel is aware, and informed by, offers and interactions in other channels. Customers expect and receive consistent, reliable interactions with the company. Page 11
  • 13. Forrester Consulting The Multichannel Maturity Mandate Figure 12 The Multichannel Maturity Model Source: Forrester Research, Inc. Page 12
  • 14. Forrester Consulting The Multichannel Maturity Mandate KEY RECOMMENDATIONS Buyer behavior has irrevocably changed. Marketers must evolve to meet the expectations and demands of the multichannel customer. If you have not already transformed your customer engagement processes into integrated, customer-centric processes, you are behind the vanguard. As you strategize and plan to advance on the multichannel maturity curve, you must: • Create a culture that worships customer knowledge. The full promise of multichannel marketing is realized only when all customer interactions are calibrated around the customer’s current context and historical interaction with your company. Tackling different types of data and aggregating it for collective insight is an essential characteristic of any multichannel marketing system. • Stop thinking about campaigns and start thinking engagement. Marketers who continue to build campaigns, and make offers, around products and product features will be perceived as “tone deaf” to the multichannel customer. Customers will engage with marketers who meet their needs — their changing needs — for different information and options during the buying journey. Marketers who continue to “go to customer” with product- centric campaigns and offers risk becoming irrelevant. • Transform your website into a pervasive customer engagement hub. Too many marketers have grown accustomed to thinking of their websites as a collection of pages. That thinking is obsolete when virtually all multichannel touches aim to drive customers to your website. Leverage highly dynamic websites to drive unique experiences for customers. Dynamically deliver content, messages, experiences, products, and offers from pools of content assets based upon knowledge of the customer’s profile, behavior, and engagement history. • Build the technical infrastructure to support dynamic, cross-channel conversations with customers. It’s simply not possible to manage the delivery of dynamic, targeted, consistent content, offers, products, across digitally enabled customer touchpoints when marketing tasks are semi-automated with a series of unintegrated software tools. • Find a ”trusted IT advisor.” Marketing is — and should be — inexorably bound up in technology, as the majority of customer touchpoints are digitally enabled and the digital landscape of customer experiences is evolving at a breakneck pace. Marketing execs need a trusted IT advisor. Many CMOs will rethink the relationship with IT; some will turn to an external service provider; others will create a shadow IT organization in marketing operations. Whatever the source, find your IT champion. • Don’t overlook change management. Multichannel marketing is not about giving an existing team some new tools to go about the business of marketing. It’s a strategic initiative that will disrupt, and then transform, your current marketing processes. Your marketing team will be challenged to define new processes, learn new technology, and rethink their role in the company. Keep a constant program of communication and engagement to facilitate the change. • Choose technology partners that can help you rack up short-term gains on the path to the full vision. The secret to selecting technology solutions for multichannel marketing is to partner with a vendor that can immediately help improve your current operations, and also has the strategy and road map to help you realize your long-term vision. Select on vision, but roll out on tactics. The selection of the right vendor will enable a short-term ROMI as well as the surest path to the grand strategy. Page 13
  • 15. Forrester Consulting The Multichannel Maturity Mandate Appendix A: Methodology In this study, Forrester Consulting conducted an online survey of 226 organizations in the US, Canada, Germany, Scandinavian countries, Singapore, and the UK to evaluate perceptions around and the current state of multichannel marketing practices. Survey participants included marketing decision-makers in both B2B and B2C organizations with 100 or more employees. Questions provided to the participants asked about current marketing practices, processes, and technologies, as well as perceived and actual returns on multichannel investments/practices. The study was conducted in December 2011. Appendix B: Demographics/Data Figure 13 Geographies And Industries Represented “What country/region are you located in?” “To which industry would you say that your firm/organization belongs?” Retail 10% United States 44% 9% Healthcare provider (includes hospitals) 9% 8% Germany 17% Professional services 7% 5% Pharmaceutical and biotechnology 4% 4% United Kingdom 15% Finished consumer products 4% 4% Banking 4% 4% Singapore 11% IT consulting and outsourcing services 3% 3% Scandinavian country Insurance (includes P&C, life, health) 3% 3% (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, 9% Software Finland) 2% Construction and related services 2% Australia 3% 2% Entertainment and recreation 2% 1% Metals, mining, agriculture, and forestry products 1% Canada 1% 1% Furniture, home furnishings, appliances 1% 1% Electricity, water, energy, and waste distribution 1% Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011 Page 14
  • 16. Forrester Consulting The Multichannel Maturity Mandate Figure 14 Respondents’ Organizational Size And Marketing Department Size “How many employees work for your “Can you please provide your best estimate of how company worldwide?” many employees work for your company's marketing department(s) worldwide?” 20,000+ employees, Less than 10 5,000 to 6% 19,999 100+ employees, employees, employees, 5% 8% 30% 10 to 25 100 to 499 employees, 1,000 to employees, 22% 4,999 43% employees, 21% 75 to 99 employees, 1% 500 to 999 25 to 49 50 to 74 employees, employees, employees, 22% 17% 25% Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011 Figure 15 Respondent Job Level And Customer Details “Which of the following most closely describes your “To whom does your company sell position?” primarily?” Exclusively Exclusively Senior-most marketing businesses, 8% consumers, 16% decision-maker in the 49% Mostly company businesses, but some consumers, 11% Executive in marketing 40% Mostly Manager of marketing Consumers and consumers, but reporting to an 12% businesses some executive in marketing roughly businesses, 26% equally, 39% Base: 226 global marketing decision-makers Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Sitecore, December 2011 Page 15