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2015 Dec 1 Maarssen NL - Marketing Technology2015 - Digital Transformation
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TITEL
Changing Tech Stack as
key driver for Digital
Transformation at HotelSpecials
Dennis Van Allemeersch
Marketing Technology congres, Maarssen
Dec. 1st, 2015
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What is
HotelSpecials trying
to achieve with it's
digital
transformation ?
What changes are
being made in it's
tech stack to that
purpose and why ?
And what have
been some
important lessons
learned to date ?
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What did we change ?
New departments
• (technical) Product Managers
(by function)
• BigData & Analytics
Changed people
• Developers
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Key process change ?
False security Work agile
Think Big – Start Small
(<> Command/Control)
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Also here it’s about people
Scrum master
are you
How to make it stick ?Top down Leadership
Team, not alpha males Key role
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Transformation takes time …
Not 3 months
Not 1 year
But 2-3 years
Finding right people, Familiarizing, Adjusting processes,
Starting, Reaping results
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Switched hosting:
More flexibele
Better pricing
Future proof tech
Servers from:
120
to …
45
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Learned some things along the way
Less is More65% capacity
=> false security
Minimise distance
external hosting -
internal developpers
Transparancy in
Documentation
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WHY > RESULTS > LESSONS
Stable and reliable
releases
Right tools = enablers
(<> manual Excel interventions)
Invest in how to do releases & proper documentation
5x / year > Continuous
1,5h / release > 20 min
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Scalable A/B testing capability
From Optimizely > Google TagManager > Embedded platform
GTM limitations in scaling up
# tests / year x15 ! with 25-30% succes rate !
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Kibana for real-time Demand insights
More flexible & personalised vs Google UA
Challenges: make actionable for business, attribution modelling
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ESP
Stay with Selligent but upgrade
> increase productivity (dynamic templates)
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CRM
From to Scope to SF ?
> using all functionalities / capacilities ?
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DMP
Now none (Relay42 ?)
> control over own data
> scalable personalisation & targetting
Winners Dutch E-mail Marketing Award 2015
# bookings x2,5 => scale & repeat
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Need as much application managers
as marketeers
About marketing processes first & foremost
Automation follows