1. Marketing Operations: Apply Your
PM Skills to a Hot New Career Path
Center your business on customers as the key to growth: accountability, alignment & agility

2. About Your Guide: Gary M. Katz
© 2012 Marketing Operations Partners, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
• Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Marketing
Operations Partners
• First ready-to-go COO and change management
team for the marketing department
• Chairman of Marketing Operations Future Forum
• 20+ years experience leading corporate marketing,
• marcom, PR, IR, demand gen & change
management
• Certified Strategic Planning Process Facilitator (ICA)
• Noted educator, author, speaker and leader in
Marketing Operations field
• MS in Organization Development, BA in Public
Relations

3. • Quick Self-Assessment Exercise
• What’s Possible?
• The Enormity of the Challenge
• What is Marketing Operations 2.0?
• Six Top Marketing Challenges and How MO Tackles Them
• Competencies and Skills Sorely Needed in Marketing
Operations Today
• BREAK
• 10 Steps You Can Take to Fuel Marketing Excellence
• MOving Organizations Forward
• Why Become a MOtivator
Seminar Agenda

22. Challenge:
Converting Insight into Value
Marketing Operations: Rising to the Challenge
Lack of confidence in
business intelligence

23. Benchmark Best
Practices
Validate
Market Demand
Assess
Insight/
Opportunity Gaps
Baseline What We
Know/What We
Don’t
Solution:
Converting Insight Into Value
MO Breeds
Actionable
Insight and
Innovation

24. Challenge:
Maximizing Customer Profitability
The Price of Acquiring
& Keeping a Customer
is Growing

25. Calculate Customer
Lifetime Value
Capture Customer
Decision Drivers
Win Back
At-Risk Customers
Mobilize to
Meet Customer
Expectations
Solution:
Maximizing Customer Profitability
MO Delivers
Customer
Experience

26. Challenge:
Delivering the Strategic Agenda
Every Strategy/Budget
Cycle
— a Free-for-All

27. Catalyze
Shared Vision
Ensure Message
Integrity
Live the
Brand
Socialize
Marketing Change
Solution:
Delivering the Strategic Agenda
MO Realizes
Strategy

28. Challenge:
Accelerating Selling/Buying Process
No or Slow Growth
Disappointing Revenue
Results

29. Integrate
Buying/Selling
Cycle
Feed Sales
Pipeline
Optimize Sales/
Marketing
Hand-offs
Leverage Loyalty
Assets
Solution:
Accelerating Selling/Buying Process
MO Aligns
Sales/Marketing
Effort

30. Challenge:
Scaling Marketing for Growth
Marketing in Reaction
Mode

31. Diagnose Marketing
Health
Architect Enabling
Shared Processes
Optimize Marketing
Investment
Develop Marketing
Competency
Solution:
Scaling Marketing for Growth
MO Mobilizes
Resources

32. “Much of what marketing can contribute right now is seen as less tangible
because we lack the metrics” – Dawn Hudson, CEO, Pepsi North America
Challenge:
Demonstrating Return on Marketing
Marketing on
Defensive to Show
Contribution

33. Align
Marketing/Enterprise
Objectives
Track Individual and
Team Performance
Fine-tune Forecasting
thru Predictive
Analytics
Define and Track
Key Metrics via
Dashboards
Solution:
Demonstrating Return on Marketing
MO Enables
Accountability

54. We guide marketing organizations to become a value center
We are front-runners in Marketing Operations
to create a consultancy dedicated to Marketing Operations
to publish an article on MO
to create a college course on MO
to teach a professional symposium on MO
to conduct a benchmarking study of MO practices
© 2016 Marketing Operations Partners. All Rights Reserved.
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55. © 2016 Marketing Operations Partners. All Rights Reserved.
Organization-wide efficiency and effectiveness raise
Marketing performance, agility and ROI
Ask us about our model for Marketing Maturity
Strategy: holistic vision, fact-based decision-making
Guidance: competency development, governance
Process: workflow, lean/six-sigma, supply chain
Metrics: profitability, predictive analytics, alignment
Technology: enterprise marketing / portfolio mgt
Ecosystem: collaboration with key stakeholders
Infrastructure: back-end integration of processes,
metrics, technology
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