Presented by The CMO Club and Oracle Marketing Cloud.
The biggest marketing buzzwords- big data, omnichannel, customer experience- are meaningless without clear definitions, an integrated platform and sustainable practices that move the needle.
The document provides an executive summary of challenges CMOs face in leveraging new technologies and marketing platforms to deliver seamless customer experiences. It discusses:
- Survey results finding that only 13% of CMOs feel they provide consistent customer experiences across channels, with 66% having more to do and 21% unsure where to start.
- Five solutions offered to help CMOs address these challenges: 1) Be the customer champion, 2) Collaborate closely with the CIO, 3) Co-design an optimal customer-driven technology roadmap, 4) Rethink marketing organizations and processes, and 5) Establish continuous improvement systems.
- The importance of understanding the customer experience at each touch point and
2015 Guide to the “CMO Technology Blueprint for Midsize B2B Companies” Infogr...Gleanster Research
This document provides an overview and guide to the "2015 CMO Technology Blueprint for Midsize B2B Companies" infographic. It discusses how the blueprint can help midsize B2B companies navigate the complex marketing technology landscape by identifying a small subset of technologies that are appropriate and realistic for most companies. It also identifies "mission critical" technologies that are widely adopted and can provide competitive differentiation. The document provides guidance on how companies should use the blueprint to focus their investments in marketing operations, awareness/acquisition, retention/expansion, and loyalty.
Gleanster Research and Act-On Software sought to answer these questions. We conducted a study in Q4 2014 and Q1 2015, surveying marketing professionals in 750 companies to understand how they perceive and support customer relationship management. For the purposes of this study, we defined CRM as: Any iteraction a customer has with your brand across all stages of the customer lifecycle.
Make sure you are getting the right return on your marketing technology investments. Having the right partner in place to manage that infrastructure and provide the always on support that you need to provide a top notch customer experience.
Unyielding competition, flailing customer
attention and adverse market conditions
have made telco landscape quite volatile.The following white paper highlights
certain key programs that can bring
create the significant marketing impact
from a customer value perspective. The
focus of this white paper will be to
establish the rationale behind choosing
these programs and the impact that
they can produce.
Winning brand loyalty today means one thing: putting the needs of customers first. Giving them an experience so distinctive and so memorable that they can’t help but talk about it. Yet most companies aren’t organized to put customer needs first - to think about the entire customer experience. They operate in siloes. As a result, the customer gets trapped between touchpoints, their needs an afterthought. Unhappy being treated as strangers, they complain or defect. Here’s the paradox: marketers have never had so many ways to connect directly with customers – yet it’s harder than ever for them to make meaningful connections. To win the right to stay connected with customers, brands must first earn their trust.
This document discusses how Accenture has developed proprietary econometric modeling techniques to determine the incremental sales impact of each component of an automaker's marketing mix. By analyzing over 150 companies, Accenture has found on average 14% of marketing budgets are ineffectively spent. Accenture piloted this approach with an automaker in South America and was able to determine which factors like advertising, pricing incentives, and product innovations most directly drove sales. This allows automakers to optimize their marketing spending. Accenture argues their approach provides a scientific, data-driven method to improve marketing ROI compared to traditional subjective methods.
Greiner's Growth Curve model identifies five phases of growth that a company passes through: 1) Creativity, 2) Direction, 3) Delegation, 4) Coordination, and 5) Collaboration. Each phase has a period of stability and evolution that ends with a period of crisis or turmoil that must be resolved for the company to progress to the next phase. The model helps understand organizational problems companies may face during rapid growth periods.
The document provides an executive summary of challenges CMOs face in leveraging new technologies and marketing platforms to deliver seamless customer experiences. It discusses:
- Survey results finding that only 13% of CMOs feel they provide consistent customer experiences across channels, with 66% having more to do and 21% unsure where to start.
- Five solutions offered to help CMOs address these challenges: 1) Be the customer champion, 2) Collaborate closely with the CIO, 3) Co-design an optimal customer-driven technology roadmap, 4) Rethink marketing organizations and processes, and 5) Establish continuous improvement systems.
- The importance of understanding the customer experience at each touch point and
2015 Guide to the “CMO Technology Blueprint for Midsize B2B Companies” Infogr...Gleanster Research
This document provides an overview and guide to the "2015 CMO Technology Blueprint for Midsize B2B Companies" infographic. It discusses how the blueprint can help midsize B2B companies navigate the complex marketing technology landscape by identifying a small subset of technologies that are appropriate and realistic for most companies. It also identifies "mission critical" technologies that are widely adopted and can provide competitive differentiation. The document provides guidance on how companies should use the blueprint to focus their investments in marketing operations, awareness/acquisition, retention/expansion, and loyalty.
Gleanster Research and Act-On Software sought to answer these questions. We conducted a study in Q4 2014 and Q1 2015, surveying marketing professionals in 750 companies to understand how they perceive and support customer relationship management. For the purposes of this study, we defined CRM as: Any iteraction a customer has with your brand across all stages of the customer lifecycle.
Make sure you are getting the right return on your marketing technology investments. Having the right partner in place to manage that infrastructure and provide the always on support that you need to provide a top notch customer experience.
Unyielding competition, flailing customer
attention and adverse market conditions
have made telco landscape quite volatile.The following white paper highlights
certain key programs that can bring
create the significant marketing impact
from a customer value perspective. The
focus of this white paper will be to
establish the rationale behind choosing
these programs and the impact that
they can produce.
Winning brand loyalty today means one thing: putting the needs of customers first. Giving them an experience so distinctive and so memorable that they can’t help but talk about it. Yet most companies aren’t organized to put customer needs first - to think about the entire customer experience. They operate in siloes. As a result, the customer gets trapped between touchpoints, their needs an afterthought. Unhappy being treated as strangers, they complain or defect. Here’s the paradox: marketers have never had so many ways to connect directly with customers – yet it’s harder than ever for them to make meaningful connections. To win the right to stay connected with customers, brands must first earn their trust.
This document discusses how Accenture has developed proprietary econometric modeling techniques to determine the incremental sales impact of each component of an automaker's marketing mix. By analyzing over 150 companies, Accenture has found on average 14% of marketing budgets are ineffectively spent. Accenture piloted this approach with an automaker in South America and was able to determine which factors like advertising, pricing incentives, and product innovations most directly drove sales. This allows automakers to optimize their marketing spending. Accenture argues their approach provides a scientific, data-driven method to improve marketing ROI compared to traditional subjective methods.
Greiner's Growth Curve model identifies five phases of growth that a company passes through: 1) Creativity, 2) Direction, 3) Delegation, 4) Coordination, and 5) Collaboration. Each phase has a period of stability and evolution that ends with a period of crisis or turmoil that must be resolved for the company to progress to the next phase. The model helps understand organizational problems companies may face during rapid growth periods.
The document provides an overview of disruptive forces facing automotive dealerships and scenarios for their survival. It discusses 6 disruptive forces including digitization of the car sales journey, changing customer expectations, rise of mobility services, decreasing need for car ownership among younger generations, advancements in electric and autonomous vehicles, and declining dealership profitability. It then outlines 5 elements of the dealership experience that may not be disrupted like test drives, used car sales, service, human touch, and good customer experience. Finally, it proposes 10 survival scenarios for dealerships with examples including experience centers, digital showrooms, brand flagship stores, and partnerships like Maserati's with Alibaba to create smart stores.
The document discusses why some digital players have been more successful than others over the past decade. It argues that the top digital players' secret to success is their superior sales and marketing operations. They have built better advertising sales teams through techniques like ambitious target setting, a focus on client needs in pitches, and hiring from outside the advertising industry. Other digital and legacy publishers can learn from these strategies to improve their own advertising sales performance.
Successful B2B software commercialization starts with designing and building customer-centric solutions. While many focus on the technical discipline of product management, I see it as a strategic marketing discipline first with a focus on growing a product, a portfolio or a company. Here I share insights and best practices that have guided me.
Digital transformation in sales: Evolving the Art of Customer EngagementAbhishek Sood
Digital transformation in sales requires organizations to continually evolve how they engage customers through both personal and digital interactions. The document discusses the different stages organizations go through in their digital transformation journey from Skeptics to Drivers. It describes how Drivers constantly experiment with advanced technologies to engage customers and gain a competitive advantage, resulting in 50% greater revenue growth compared to less transformed organizations.
Material Changes in the Customer Experience & the Profound Impact on CMOsJames O'Gara
Over the next three-to-five years, 75 percent* of marketers say
they will be responsible for the end-to-end customer experience. To be successful, CMOs must have a deeper understanding of the strategies and tactics required to deliver a superior customer journey. This paper explores how marketing’s responsibilities must change in the organization, how marketers must extend their reach into the customer experience, and why the CMO’s role must be reimagined.
Do You Have The Right Customer Experience Strategy?PeopleMetrics
The document discusses customer experience strategies and outlines the key elements for a successful strategy. It notes that customer experience is about understanding customers and listening to them. It then lists the 5 elements of a successful customer experience strategy as: 1) executive buy-in, 2) educating and engaging employees, 3) targeting customers, 4) understanding customers, and 5) listening to customers. The document emphasizes that a focus on customer experience can significantly impact customer retention, spending, and growth.
Join this webinar with Peter Armaly, Senior Director and Adviser for Customer Success at Oracle, who will share his experiences, discuss some research, and offer guidance and opinions on the issue of Customer Success programs not being treated equal to its Sales peers.
This document discusses the results of a survey of over 900 senior-level marketers about the state of marketing leadership. Some key findings include:
- Most marketers see creating a cohesive customer journey across channels as critical, though fewer companies actually use the term "customer journey".
- Bigger companies are more likely to have adopted a customer journey focus, but small businesses rate themselves as more effective at creating one.
- Integrating customer data across systems is seen as important for effectively mapping the customer journey, though only 17% of companies have fully integrated data.
The Strategic Role of Product Management
The Strategic Role of Product Management explains why product management is a critical, strategic role in a technology company. One which guides products to be created based on a market need, not because someone thinks it is a good idea.company. One which guides products to be created based on a market need, not because someone thinks it is a good idea.
Moving Beyond Customer Experience Towards Customer EngagementSeymourSloan
This document discusses moving from a focus on customer experience to customer engagement. It argues that customer engagement considers the two-way relationship between organizations and customers based on understanding customer needs. The document outlines seven areas to develop an effective customer engagement model: 1) Understanding customer engagement; 2) Defining a customer engagement framework; 3) Placing value on customer engagement; 4) Moving to an omnichannel engagement model; 5) Leveraging data; 6) Governance and accountability; and 7) Continually creating, iterating and reinventing the engagement model. The overall message is that effective customer engagement requires a holistic, data-driven approach and ongoing refinement to meet evolving customer needs.
Great article by McKinsey in 2022
The pandemic has converted B2B buyers to e-commerce in a big way. B2B sellers need new capabilities to meet their new expectations.
The typical marketer and sales person, in a complex B2B sales environment,understands the value of a truly qualified “sales-ready” lead over a marketing ready prospect, because it meets a designated set of criteria and progresses into a sale faster with fewer selling resources
- Allkonnect is a cloud-based platform that helps companies with their digital marketing efforts such as content creation, influencer marketing, social media management, and more.
- Their mission is to build an ecosystem for marketing services that creates value for brands, content creators, influencers, and marketers. They aim to make marketing easier for their clients.
- The document discusses Allkonnect's services and products in more detail, including their software platform that allows for collaboration, project management, and payments. It also covers their founders and some details about the Indian digital marketing industry.
Peshwa Acharya discusses Think as Consumer's unique "Plug & Play CMO" initiative which provides senior marketing leadership resources and expertise to help small and mid-sized companies. He believes the role of the CMO is evolving into a Chief Growth Officer responsible for marketing, sales, and strategy. Think as Consumer also offers certification programs and has helped various startups address common problems around building the right team, customer outreach, and fundraising. While localization is important for some products, marketing communications should be localized for all. Differences in marketing strategies between metro and tier 2/3 cities include issues of reach, language, and a need for localized activations in smaller cities. Digital and e-commerce have seen significant momentum.
While Uncle Sam props up the markets and maintains record low interest rates, brands’ greater engagement with consumers, along with a readiness to respond to emergencies, forms a central role. In a new era of cash-flow constraints, brand rationalization and no-risk methods to regain trust, what are the best methods for protecting it?
Ovum Salesforce Com Sales Methods (Wp000167 Eap)RichardGilder
The document summarizes the SalesMethods solution, which provides an integrated sales methodology for Salesforce.com users. It consists of three main applications: Plan2Prosper for account development planning, Plan2Close for sales opportunity management, and Plan2Excel for sales management reporting and analytics. Plan2Prosper and Plan2Close both guide users through developing sales plans by answering sets of four critical questions. The solution is a native integration with Salesforce that aims to drive sales effectiveness through formalizing best practices and providing collaborative tools.
CCP_Contact_Center_Contribution_to_CEMDavid Howard
The document discusses how contact centers can contribute to customer experience management (CEM) by leveraging customer data and insights. It describes how contact centers have a wealth of customer data that spans interactions across the customer journey. However, data is often siloed by department or channel. The document recommends contact centers map customer journeys, identify key moments that impact satisfaction, and measure beyond surveys to consider operational metrics and customer behaviors. Integrating multichannel data provides a holistic view of the customer experience to help drive customer-centric changes across the organization.
New CMO Guide - Handbook for Marketing LeadersEvgeny Tsarkov
The document provides a guide for new CMOs to assess the marketing situation at their new company. It outlines key areas for evaluation, including understanding the internal marketing team, evaluating external resources and players, assessing technology platforms and databases, and taking inventory of current marketing efforts. The guide recommends conducting research such as meeting with customers, agencies, and other departments to gain insights on strengths, weaknesses, budgets, and opportunities for improvement. The overall goal is to develop an initial game plan to effectively assess the current situation and build strategies to improve marketing performance.
This document discusses using social media to tell a school's story. It provides learning targets around communicating a school's story in real and relevant ways that supplement traditional paper methods, and reaching digital native students. The document discusses components of storytelling and examples of how schools can use social media like Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Storify to share classroom experiences, student work and school events in engaging ways. It also shares perspectives from students on valuing social media and technology in the classroom.
The author found that the most powerful part of a team project was collaborating with group members, combining talents and knowledge to create a good project. They felt they needed more practice with data analysis, but received help from group members. The biggest challenge was responding to discussion posts in a timely manner, as they did not check in often enough. Through this team assignment, the author and group analyzed data, designed an initiative, and planned implementation, gaining insight into how schools use data to drive instruction. The author thought the project was well-planned with no suggested improvements.
The document discusses various tech tools that can be used in the 2014 classroom, including:
1. Backchannels like TodaysMeet and Twitter that allow real-time discussion during presentations.
2. The importance of choosing appropriate tools that don't manipulate students but instead support how they learn.
3. Popular classroom tools mentioned include Edmodo, Google Apps, Remind101, and Prezi for communication, collaboration, organization, and interactive lessons.
- The document summarizes a presentation about the unique challenges of deliverable fuels like propane and heating oil. Approximately 6.5% of U.S. households, or about 80% of those in the Northeast region, use heating oil.
- The presentation addresses regional effects of home heating oil in the Northeast, health and safety issues, supply and demand price volatility challenges given the region's cold temperatures, and the role of LIHEAP in reducing energy burden.
- Suggested policy and operational changes include continuing discussion on a national level, taking a regional approach given multi-state fuel companies, and targeting LIHEAP benefits to further reduce energy burden through discount pricing and vendor management.
The document provides an overview of disruptive forces facing automotive dealerships and scenarios for their survival. It discusses 6 disruptive forces including digitization of the car sales journey, changing customer expectations, rise of mobility services, decreasing need for car ownership among younger generations, advancements in electric and autonomous vehicles, and declining dealership profitability. It then outlines 5 elements of the dealership experience that may not be disrupted like test drives, used car sales, service, human touch, and good customer experience. Finally, it proposes 10 survival scenarios for dealerships with examples including experience centers, digital showrooms, brand flagship stores, and partnerships like Maserati's with Alibaba to create smart stores.
The document discusses why some digital players have been more successful than others over the past decade. It argues that the top digital players' secret to success is their superior sales and marketing operations. They have built better advertising sales teams through techniques like ambitious target setting, a focus on client needs in pitches, and hiring from outside the advertising industry. Other digital and legacy publishers can learn from these strategies to improve their own advertising sales performance.
Successful B2B software commercialization starts with designing and building customer-centric solutions. While many focus on the technical discipline of product management, I see it as a strategic marketing discipline first with a focus on growing a product, a portfolio or a company. Here I share insights and best practices that have guided me.
Digital transformation in sales: Evolving the Art of Customer EngagementAbhishek Sood
Digital transformation in sales requires organizations to continually evolve how they engage customers through both personal and digital interactions. The document discusses the different stages organizations go through in their digital transformation journey from Skeptics to Drivers. It describes how Drivers constantly experiment with advanced technologies to engage customers and gain a competitive advantage, resulting in 50% greater revenue growth compared to less transformed organizations.
Material Changes in the Customer Experience & the Profound Impact on CMOsJames O'Gara
Over the next three-to-five years, 75 percent* of marketers say
they will be responsible for the end-to-end customer experience. To be successful, CMOs must have a deeper understanding of the strategies and tactics required to deliver a superior customer journey. This paper explores how marketing’s responsibilities must change in the organization, how marketers must extend their reach into the customer experience, and why the CMO’s role must be reimagined.
Do You Have The Right Customer Experience Strategy?PeopleMetrics
The document discusses customer experience strategies and outlines the key elements for a successful strategy. It notes that customer experience is about understanding customers and listening to them. It then lists the 5 elements of a successful customer experience strategy as: 1) executive buy-in, 2) educating and engaging employees, 3) targeting customers, 4) understanding customers, and 5) listening to customers. The document emphasizes that a focus on customer experience can significantly impact customer retention, spending, and growth.
Join this webinar with Peter Armaly, Senior Director and Adviser for Customer Success at Oracle, who will share his experiences, discuss some research, and offer guidance and opinions on the issue of Customer Success programs not being treated equal to its Sales peers.
This document discusses the results of a survey of over 900 senior-level marketers about the state of marketing leadership. Some key findings include:
- Most marketers see creating a cohesive customer journey across channels as critical, though fewer companies actually use the term "customer journey".
- Bigger companies are more likely to have adopted a customer journey focus, but small businesses rate themselves as more effective at creating one.
- Integrating customer data across systems is seen as important for effectively mapping the customer journey, though only 17% of companies have fully integrated data.
The Strategic Role of Product Management
The Strategic Role of Product Management explains why product management is a critical, strategic role in a technology company. One which guides products to be created based on a market need, not because someone thinks it is a good idea.company. One which guides products to be created based on a market need, not because someone thinks it is a good idea.
Moving Beyond Customer Experience Towards Customer EngagementSeymourSloan
This document discusses moving from a focus on customer experience to customer engagement. It argues that customer engagement considers the two-way relationship between organizations and customers based on understanding customer needs. The document outlines seven areas to develop an effective customer engagement model: 1) Understanding customer engagement; 2) Defining a customer engagement framework; 3) Placing value on customer engagement; 4) Moving to an omnichannel engagement model; 5) Leveraging data; 6) Governance and accountability; and 7) Continually creating, iterating and reinventing the engagement model. The overall message is that effective customer engagement requires a holistic, data-driven approach and ongoing refinement to meet evolving customer needs.
Great article by McKinsey in 2022
The pandemic has converted B2B buyers to e-commerce in a big way. B2B sellers need new capabilities to meet their new expectations.
The typical marketer and sales person, in a complex B2B sales environment,understands the value of a truly qualified “sales-ready” lead over a marketing ready prospect, because it meets a designated set of criteria and progresses into a sale faster with fewer selling resources
- Allkonnect is a cloud-based platform that helps companies with their digital marketing efforts such as content creation, influencer marketing, social media management, and more.
- Their mission is to build an ecosystem for marketing services that creates value for brands, content creators, influencers, and marketers. They aim to make marketing easier for their clients.
- The document discusses Allkonnect's services and products in more detail, including their software platform that allows for collaboration, project management, and payments. It also covers their founders and some details about the Indian digital marketing industry.
Peshwa Acharya discusses Think as Consumer's unique "Plug & Play CMO" initiative which provides senior marketing leadership resources and expertise to help small and mid-sized companies. He believes the role of the CMO is evolving into a Chief Growth Officer responsible for marketing, sales, and strategy. Think as Consumer also offers certification programs and has helped various startups address common problems around building the right team, customer outreach, and fundraising. While localization is important for some products, marketing communications should be localized for all. Differences in marketing strategies between metro and tier 2/3 cities include issues of reach, language, and a need for localized activations in smaller cities. Digital and e-commerce have seen significant momentum.
While Uncle Sam props up the markets and maintains record low interest rates, brands’ greater engagement with consumers, along with a readiness to respond to emergencies, forms a central role. In a new era of cash-flow constraints, brand rationalization and no-risk methods to regain trust, what are the best methods for protecting it?
Ovum Salesforce Com Sales Methods (Wp000167 Eap)RichardGilder
The document summarizes the SalesMethods solution, which provides an integrated sales methodology for Salesforce.com users. It consists of three main applications: Plan2Prosper for account development planning, Plan2Close for sales opportunity management, and Plan2Excel for sales management reporting and analytics. Plan2Prosper and Plan2Close both guide users through developing sales plans by answering sets of four critical questions. The solution is a native integration with Salesforce that aims to drive sales effectiveness through formalizing best practices and providing collaborative tools.
CCP_Contact_Center_Contribution_to_CEMDavid Howard
The document discusses how contact centers can contribute to customer experience management (CEM) by leveraging customer data and insights. It describes how contact centers have a wealth of customer data that spans interactions across the customer journey. However, data is often siloed by department or channel. The document recommends contact centers map customer journeys, identify key moments that impact satisfaction, and measure beyond surveys to consider operational metrics and customer behaviors. Integrating multichannel data provides a holistic view of the customer experience to help drive customer-centric changes across the organization.
New CMO Guide - Handbook for Marketing LeadersEvgeny Tsarkov
The document provides a guide for new CMOs to assess the marketing situation at their new company. It outlines key areas for evaluation, including understanding the internal marketing team, evaluating external resources and players, assessing technology platforms and databases, and taking inventory of current marketing efforts. The guide recommends conducting research such as meeting with customers, agencies, and other departments to gain insights on strengths, weaknesses, budgets, and opportunities for improvement. The overall goal is to develop an initial game plan to effectively assess the current situation and build strategies to improve marketing performance.
This document discusses using social media to tell a school's story. It provides learning targets around communicating a school's story in real and relevant ways that supplement traditional paper methods, and reaching digital native students. The document discusses components of storytelling and examples of how schools can use social media like Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Storify to share classroom experiences, student work and school events in engaging ways. It also shares perspectives from students on valuing social media and technology in the classroom.
The author found that the most powerful part of a team project was collaborating with group members, combining talents and knowledge to create a good project. They felt they needed more practice with data analysis, but received help from group members. The biggest challenge was responding to discussion posts in a timely manner, as they did not check in often enough. Through this team assignment, the author and group analyzed data, designed an initiative, and planned implementation, gaining insight into how schools use data to drive instruction. The author thought the project was well-planned with no suggested improvements.
The document discusses various tech tools that can be used in the 2014 classroom, including:
1. Backchannels like TodaysMeet and Twitter that allow real-time discussion during presentations.
2. The importance of choosing appropriate tools that don't manipulate students but instead support how they learn.
3. Popular classroom tools mentioned include Edmodo, Google Apps, Remind101, and Prezi for communication, collaboration, organization, and interactive lessons.
- The document summarizes a presentation about the unique challenges of deliverable fuels like propane and heating oil. Approximately 6.5% of U.S. households, or about 80% of those in the Northeast region, use heating oil.
- The presentation addresses regional effects of home heating oil in the Northeast, health and safety issues, supply and demand price volatility challenges given the region's cold temperatures, and the role of LIHEAP in reducing energy burden.
- Suggested policy and operational changes include continuing discussion on a national level, taking a regional approach given multi-state fuel companies, and targeting LIHEAP benefits to further reduce energy burden through discount pricing and vendor management.
Yurai and Min-Ching had their wedding photographs taken in Havana, Cuba on November 26, 2013. The photographs document their departure from Canada with a champagne toast on the airplane, their junior suite at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, getting ready on their wedding day as guests started to arrive, and photographs taken at Plaza de San Francisco de Asís, Plaza de La Catedral, and Malecón y Castillo del Morro in Old Havana on their wedding day.
Track e 2014 neuac - hhs best practices to avoid fraud, ma department of ho...Akm M. Rahman
The document discusses strategies for preventing fraud, waste, and abuse in Massachusetts housing assistance programs, noting the importance of maintaining program integrity through measures like segregating duties, conducting risk assessments, strengthening verification procedures, implementing policies for reporting and consequences, and providing training to raise awareness. It also outlines Massachusetts' LIHEAP program integrity model and common types of fraud seen in LIHEAP cases.
Spotify is a music streaming service launched in 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden by Daniel Ek, originally failing but growing its userbase. It provides free streaming supported by ads, or premium subscriptions without ads. Spotify purchases music licenses to stream its library to users, who can listen online or offline with a premium account, keeping it legal. Its goals have been to offer free music while gaining profits from ads and premium subscriptions.
The document defines and explains several key graph concepts and algorithms, including:
- Graph representations like adjacency matrix and adjacency list.
- Graph traversal algorithms like breadth-first search (BFS) and depth-first search (DFS).
- Minimum spanning tree algorithms like Prim's algorithm.
- Single-source shortest path algorithms like Dijkstra's algorithm and Floyd's algorithm.
Pseudocode and examples are provided to illustrate how BFS, DFS, Prim's, Dijkstra's and Floyd's algorithms work on graphs. Key properties of minimum spanning trees and shortest path problems are also defined.
This document discusses different types of counters used in digital circuits. It defines a counter as a sequential circuit that cycles through a sequence of states in response to clock pulses. Binary counters count in binary and can count from 0 to 2n-1 with n flip-flops. Asynchronous counters have flip-flops that are not triggered simultaneously by a clock, while synchronous counters use a common clock for all flip-flops. Other counter types include ring counters, Johnson counters, and decade counters. The document provides examples of binary, asynchronous, and synchronous counters and discusses their applications in areas like timing sequences and addressing memory.
The document discusses how marketing priorities have become unbalanced, with too much focus placed on new technologies and channels instead of foundational messaging strategies. It argues that while technology is important, developing a clear and consistent message is the key to making investments in technology and channels pay off. The document advocates that marketers should rebalance their efforts and priorities by investing more time and resources in researching, validating, and strengthening their core messaging. With a solid foundational message in place, technologies and channels can then be effectively leveraged to engage audiences and maximize returns on marketing investments.
The document provides an agenda and materials for a digital marketing class hosted by The House of Marketing (THoM). The class discusses why digital marketing is important, how to approach digital marketing, trends to be aware of, and the impact of digital transformation on the marketing profession. It then presents a case study on developing an e-commerce strategy for a pet store chain. Students are encouraged to apply the lean startup methodology and test solutions with customers. The document promotes open recruitment for THoM and invites students to the next class.
The presentation covers elements of a GTM plan, what makes it disruptive and how does one measure it. The presentation was used at the NASSCOM Product Conclave in Cochin held on 14 Dec 2016 by Sunder Madakshira.
The document discusses the skills and capabilities needed to build a modern marketing organization, including customer insights, digital marketing, social media, integrated engagement planning, content development, evaluative analytics, and predictive analytics. It provides examples of how leading companies are developing these skills within their marketing teams and shifting certain functions, like digital marketing, from centralized groups to being embedded within broader marketing. The goal is to transform marketing organizations to effectively use data, technology, and content across all touchpoints.
Strategy First : How Marketers Can Avoid Common Technology Pitfalls & Drive R...Alyesha Patel-Parker
A research study performed by Strategy First found several key findings about how marketers select and use technology:
1. The most important factors in selecting technology providers are the functionality of the platform and its compatibility with other systems, though training is also important.
2. Marketers want to better utilize data assets and improve marketing execution to drive ROI, which is why they often change technology providers.
3. A lack of skills in using popular marketing technologies creates risks, and vendors need to provide better post-sales support.
4. The best marketing leaders clearly articulate goals and technology needs to achieve strategies and drive results.
9 Essentials to Grow Your Agency and Help Your Clients Succeed - an Act-On eBookSherry Lamoreaux
Marketing automation can help agencies strengthen their value proposition and better meet evolving client needs. By implementing a marketing automation platform, agencies can offer new service tiers and revenue streams to clients while improving campaign effectiveness, efficiencies, and costs. Marketing automation also allows agencies to position their expertise in a high-demand discipline and differentiate themselves in the increasingly competitive industry.
Stepping Up to the Challenges of Digital MarketingCognizant
"The advent of digital has dramatically impacted how CMOs run their marketing operations. By identifying and employing the processes, business models and technologies required in today's digitally intensive business environment, companies can strengthen their brand, enrich their relationships with customers, and manage an increasingly complex mix of partners, processes, and technologies.
The document summarizes a presentation given at The House of Marketing (THoM) on developing an effective digital marketing strategy. It discusses why digital marketing is important, how to approach it using trends and customer insights. It also presents a case study on developing an e-commerce strategy for a pet store, Tom&Co. Groups were asked to identify customer problems, segments, and propose solutions using the Lean Startup methodology focusing on the minimum viable product to validate ideas quickly. The presentation concluded by discussing new marketing roles and recruiting upcoming marketers.
Nadine dietz the cmo solution guide to leveraging new technology and marketin...The CMO Club
The document discusses the evolving role of the CMO and challenges they face in delivering a seamless customer experience across channels. It finds that only 13% of CMOs feel they can currently provide such an experience. The document outlines solutions for CMOs to better understand the customer journey, collaborate with the CIO, redesign marketing teams, and establish continuous improvement processes. It concludes that the CMO's role will continue expanding as marketing tools improve customer experience measurement.
The document discusses the rise of customer life-cycle marketing systems (CLCMS) and their importance for CMOs. It makes three key points:
1) CMOs need a central technology hub to manage all customer interactions across the customer life cycle in order to optimize marketing.
2) Vendors are developing CLCMS that integrate customer data, marketing operations, interactions, reporting and analytics to help CMOs address growing complexity.
3) Over the next three years the CLCMS landscape will be noisy as vendors work to demonstrate integration, reduce costs and complexity, and fully embrace a customer life cycle approach rather than just focusing on campaigns.
1) The document discusses how adopting an Agile for Marketing (A4M) approach can help CMOs address common challenges they face including understanding customers better, coping with rapid change, aligning marketing with company goals, fostering experimentation, and measuring marketing performance.
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CMO Solution Guide to Leveraging New Technology and Marketing Platforms
1. The CMO Solution Guide to Leveraging New Technology and Marketing Platforms 1
THE CMO SOLUTION
GUIDE TO LEVERAGING NEW
TECHNOLOGY AND
MARKETING PLATFORMS
Presented by
2. The CMO Solution Guide to Leveraging New Technology and Marketing Platforms2
WITH SPECIAL THANKS
TO CONTRIBUTORS:
CAMMIE DUNAWAY
Global CMO of
Kidzania
SETH FARBMAN
Former CMO of
GAP
MAYUR GUPTA
Global Head, Marketing
Technology & Innovation,
Kimberly-Clark
JULIE LYLE
CMO of hhgregg
CHRIS MOLONEY
Chief Digital Officer,
ARIA Consulting
CHRISTINE NASHICK
Chief Customer Officer of
DHL US
MARY BETH PARKS
SVP Global Marketing
of Hilton Worldwide
MARY ANN FITZMAURICE REILLY
SVP, Marketing Integration &
Customer Insights,
American Express
MICHAEL WILLIAMS
CMO of Grand Prix of
America
ROSE HAMILTON
CMO and GM of Pet360,
a PetSmart Brand
3. The CMO Solution Guide to Leveraging New Technology and Marketing Platforms 3
As the marketer’s role continues to morph at light speed in an attempt to deliver
a seamless positive customer experience across all touch points, so does the
technology underneath and all the headaches that come with it which include but
are not limited to:
• Having a clear customer experience vision.
• Becoming the customer champion responsible for identifying and mapping the
euphoric customer journey.
• Working together with technology counterparts to ensure the customer
experience vision is mutually understood and the basis for technology
success.
• Redesigning teams and breaking down process silos to ensure cross
functional collaboration.
• Not owning it outright, but becoming an active stakeholder in the application
of each technology within a well designed, integrated platform to achieve your
marketing vision.
It is a challenge all CMOs are facing and the basis for why we felt it was time to
produce a CMO Solution Guide to Leveraging New Technology and Marketing
Platforms. The goal is not to represent assumptive solutions to your specific
challenge, but to share peer solutions that provide a collective perspective on how
other CMOs are tackling this incredibly difficult topic.
In The Inherent Challenge, we will summarize what we’ve heard from CMOs
as specific pain points regarding Leveraging New Technology and Marketing
Platforms. The first takeaway we offer you is that technology is indeed a common
challenge. Of the 110 CMOs surveyed*:
• Only 13% thought they were able to truly deliver a seamless, personalized
consistent customer experience across all touch points.
• 66% felt they had a ways to go in creating a unified approach.
• 21% said they were “not sure where to start in terms of understanding a
customer’s end-to-end experience with our brand. I need help with such things
as evaluating the right marketing platform, which analytics to use to best match
up to my goals, to name a few.”
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
“You have to understand the
experience before you deliver on
it. Brand promise is inherent in the
customer experience, and you set your
brand up for failure if you don’t get that
right away.”—CHRISTINE NASHICK, CHIEF CUSTOMER
OFFICER OF DHL EXPRESS
“My job now is to look at the decision
journey of the customer, and optimize
based on what the customer wants.”
—MARY ANN FITZMAURICE REILLY, SVP MARKETING
INTEGRATION AND CUSTOMER INSIGHTS,
AMERICAN EXPRESS
“If you are a CMO and are not excited
and engaged with technology, I
question how long you will be in the
job.”—CAMMIE DUNAWAY, PRESIDENT AND GLOBAL
CMO, KIDZANIA, INC.
“All the technology available is only as
good as the people driving it.” —MICHAEL
WILLIAMS, CMO OF GRAND PRIX OF AMERICA, FORMULA 1
“Great campaigns result from
collaboration, and technology should
help support that collaboration. By
bringing individual brand processes
together and moving to a common
platform, we gain efficiencies while
encouraging deeper levels of creativity
across the organization.” —MARY BETH PARKS,
SVP GLOBAL MARKETING OF HILTON WORLDWIDE
“Most brands and marketers only utilize
15% of technologies and capabilities
they are already paying for, so the
focus should not be in the number of
technologies that need to adopted, but
in “applying” them to solve business
needs and changing consumer
behaviors.”—MAYUR GUPTA, GLOBAL HEAD,
MARKETING TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION,
KIMBERLY-CLARK
“
*In 4Q 2014 a survey was conducted with The CMO Club members on Leveraging New Technologies and Marketing Platforms
4. The CMO Solution Guide to Leveraging New Technology and Marketing Platforms4
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
With hundreds—if not thousands—of technology choices, it’s no surprise that CMOs are
overwhelmed with options, feeling as if they need to be technology experts to be successful
marketing leaders today. And indeed, there is some truth to that. But there isn’t enough time in
the day for one person to be all things and we are at a tipping point now where customers have
outpaced companies in their demands for technology advancement. We need to get to a place of
clarity for execution—and quickly.
The good news is we’ve made huge strides in technology over the last decade and even more in
recent years. The collective “we” of CMOs have been redesigning our organizations, embracing
technology, mining new paths, and focusing on customer needs as the first call to action. One
could argue, we’ve never been more customer-centric and/or competitive. What is finger-biting
clear is that only those companies that are able to mold themselves to what a customer wants will
be left standing.
So how can we help each other?
What solutions can we offer each other as practitioners to help each other advance the greater
good, putting aside competition for the moment? Thanks to those CMOs who offered to
participate in this study, (those surveyed and those we interviewed listed on the cover) we offer
you five solutions for today:
1. Be the Customer Champion Every Step of the Way
2. Become BFFs with Your CIO
3. Co-design the Optimal Customer-Driven Technology Roadmap
4. Rethink Your Marketing Organization and Processes
5. Establish a System for Continuous Improvement
5. The CMO Solution Guide to Leveraging New Technology and Marketing Platforms 5
Today’s biggest marketing buzzwords—big data,
omnichannel, customer experience—are meaningless
without clear definitions, an integrated platform, and
sustainable, proven practices that move the needle.
“The notion of delivering consumer experiences across channels is “unfortunately”
the definition of success that in other words is a highly multi-channel mindset
that puts the channel ahead of the consumer. This definition is reasonably distant
from the ultimate vision of a seamless omnichannel consumer experience that
is channel agnostic and consumer focused.” — Mayur Gupta, Global Head,
Marketing Technology & Innovation, Kimberly-Clark
We all talk about customer experience as the single most important mission
of today’s CMO, but what does that mean exactly? How does one deliver that
positive, consistent customer experience across all touch points, regardless of
channel?
Scott Monty, the former Global Digital & Multimedia Communications Manager
for Ford Motor Company, wrote describing the role of the CMO moving forward:
“CMOs need to be able to understand how a customer experiences a brand at all
stages of their journey.” And indeed, that remains the top priority area for CMOs
needing development today as seen in the results of our survey below.
“Every business talks about
focusing on the customer. But few
actually deliver. Why? Because
digital marketing technology
can’t tell a compelling story. It
lacks engaging dialogue with no
connection beyond the transaction.
It’s lost in translation because
marketers don’t speak code. And
it’s confusing to the customer
because marketing and IT can’t
connect process and data.
Take a look at your digital
marketing picture. From a distance
it may look fine. But look up close.
It’s fragmented and the dots are
not connected. You need much
higher resolution. Step back and
see the big picture. Zoom in on
the individual customer. But you’ll
need Modern Marketing technology
engineered with enterprise grade
data management and proven
cloud performance.
Explore the people, processes,
and technology. Create a culture
of customer obsession. Simplify
marketing across all channels
to turn casual prospects into
passionate advocates. Engage
ideal customers with a meaningful
experience. Personalize your
brand narrative for each customer
in every chapter of your story
to increase engagement and
revenue.”
—ORACLE MARKETING CLOUD
THE INHERENT CHALLENGE
“
Identifying the entire customer experience across all channels
including marketing channels as well as internal channels including
sales and support
The mapping of each customer journey back to each touch point
within the overall customer experience
Developing a true 360 view of the customer
Measuring the impact of each touch point
The technology platform you need to enable seamless execution
The consulting support required from major tech vendors to map the
solutions into a unified experience
Which areas do you feel you need to develop further as you take on this challenge?
(1 = HIGHEST PRIORITY)
2.98
3.06
3.08
3.14
3.83
5.02
6. The CMO Solution Guide to Leveraging New Technology and Marketing Platforms6
What’s interesting is if you break that group apart based on maturity levels—both
those that are most advanced and those that are just getting started—they say
“The mapping of each customer journey back to each touch point within the
overall customer experience” is their top priority area for advancement. This is
a clear indicator that we still have a long way to go in really understanding the
customer experience at each touch point and serves as a good reminder to
not only start with a map, but also continuously revisit the plan with each new
advancement to ensure your customer understanding remains current.
Why is that important? Here is the consumer perspective:
The Technology Conundrum
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to
an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation
applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” —Bill Gates
Given the vast array of technology, data points, channels, and tactics available,
new technology and marketing automation has stepped in to help CMOs bring
all their activities together and support the delivery of the ultimate customer
72%of consumers want marketing collateral
including in-store to be consistently presented
across channels as a means to reinforce their
perception of a given brand.
85%of consumers expect a consistent
shopping experience across all channels
including in-store.
83%of consumers expect and see value
in a brand delivering a personalized shopping
experience across all channels.
89%of consumers said it was important
for retailers to let them shop for products in
the way that is convenient for them, no matter
which sales channel they choose.
85%of consumers equate omnichannel to
a positive customer experience.
*Sources: MyBuys, e-tailing group, Capgemini, Efma,
MultiChannel Merchant
7. The CMO Solution Guide to Leveraging New Technology and Marketing Platforms 7
experience. But has it really helped so far? Or has it simply created another
overwhelming challenge for the CMO who now must become a technology expert
to apply it efficiently?
This chart from chiefmartech.com exemplifies the headache of every marketer and
technologist trying to design the right solution to deliver their customer experience
vision—where do we start and how do we integrate?
8. The CMO Solution Guide to Leveraging New Technology and Marketing Platforms8
In our survey, we asked the following open-ended question of CMOs: How have
you been able to leverage your current marketing platform to integrate your
marketing efforts across channels?
Just Getting Started
I’m not sure where to start in terms of
understanding a customer’s end-to-end
experience with our brand. I need help
with such things as evaluating the right
marketing platform, which analytics to
use to best match up to my goals, to
name a few.
Middle of the Road
While I know some things about my cus-
tomers and their journey with our brand,
I do not have a unified approach in
addressing my customers in a personal-
ized way that is consistent with my brand
objectives at every touch point.
Fully Mature
I fully understand my customers and how
they interact and engage with our brand
at every touch point in their journey,
my marketing platform is optimized, my
analytics are robust and provide unique
customer metrics at every touch point.
• Good insights on segments, omni-
channel—still too much manual effort
to pull together but analysis has
been valuable.
• Good views to cross-channel en-
gagement for some customers, need
to expand to all customers—too
much manual effort today.
• Not much progress here. Still running
programs based on best point in
time analysis with agencies help
vs. dynamic cross channel program
optimization.
• Not doing a good job today with this.
Still channel specific analytics and
reporting.
• Not doing much yet cross-channel.
• A number of bolt-on solutions and
have worked with IT will little success
to date.
• Not doing much today across our
channels.
• Poor integration to date.
• Using third party to help us analyze
this and create customer journey
maps.
• Marketing automation is well integrat-
ed with CRM but less so with social
and SEM.
• Good visibility at summary level
across all channels. Customer specif-
ic visibility a bigger issue today.
• We use several different tools which
are preventing us from integrating
effectively.
• Manually pulling data from each
channel to pull together a customer
journey.
• Better views at least by customer
segment, testing numerous one-to
one omnichannel presence pro-
grams but don’t have the data we
need from all channels to optimize.
• Been a battle with IT to get access
to data needed (both internally and
externally).
• We are now leveraging cross chan-
nel data for our quarterly marketing
plans. A big first step but still way too
time consuming and costly to pull
together manually.
• We are developing a consistent
voice, look and feel, messaging and
brand image in everything we put
forth.
• We have worked hard to create a
single view, timely A/B testing of
products and deals, and a growing
influencer group that loves our prod-
ucts and stores.
• Increased insights into customer
buying and shopping patterns.
• Share with our retail stores for better
customized service to our top cus-
tomers.
• Better insights on customer buying
patterns so we can make better
offers to them.
• Work with agency to handle this
today.
Still even the best have the
following to say:
• A bit of a mess today. Too much gut
and focus group reaction.
• Not well today. Still one-off history
based programs.
CMO Responses Sorted By Their Self-Assessed Organizational Maturity in Leveraging New Technology and Marketing
Platforms to Deliver a Seamless Customer Experience:
9. The CMO Solution Guide to Leveraging New Technology and Marketing Platforms 9
This random sampling is reflective of the entire group of responses received.
There was simply no consistent response across all respondents and even those
who originally identified themselves as advanced in fully understanding and
implementing against the ideal customer experience were still struggling with
applying marketing automation.
What is keeping us from moving forward?
When asked about roadblocks to success, our three groups of CMOs (based
on their earlier assessment of maturity) called out the following roadblocks for
success, namely Budget issues and My Existing Marketing Platforms:
“Advances in technology have
paved the way for increasingly
more scientific marketing, but
campaigns need a story and
great content tied to it to drive
response and loyalty. The challenge
for today’s marketer is not just
keeping up with the latest tools, but
understanding how to deploy them
most effectively.”—MARY BETH PARKS,
SVP GLOBAL MARKETING OF HILTON WORLDWIDE
“Efficiencies are key – the
challenge is providing the tools
and training needed to enable a
single person to better own the full
journey”—MARY BETH PARKS, SVP GLOBAL
MARKETING OF HILTON WORLDWIDE
“Different groups owned the
web experience and the mobile
experience. We had divided
functions by business line and lost
sight of the customer. My job now
is to look at the decision journey of
the customer, and optimize based
on what the customer wants. We
have to create solutions to connect
legacy systems that don’t speak to
each other.” —MARY ANN FITZMAURICE REILLY,
SVP MARKETING INTEGRATION AND CUSTOMER
INSIGHTS, AMERICAN EXPRESS
“There are so many solutions out
there. Managing it all requires
a substantial time investment.
I want a partner who can lay
out a roadmap for me. We have
57 vendors just in marketing
technology. And you need a data
scientist who has the keys to unlock
what you’re sitting on.” —JENN MCMILLEN,
VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING & CRM AT
MICHAELS STORES
“The key for brands is to adopt an
agile mindset and culture more
than just the agile rituals and tools”
—MAYUR GUPTA, GLOBAL HEAD, MARKETING
TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION, KIMBERLY-CLARK
“
The consulting support required from major tech vendors to map the
solutions into a unified experience
2.983.06
3.08
3.14
3.83
5.02
What roadblocks are most problematic in terms of you ultimately meeting and
succeeding in this challenge? (1 = HIGHEST PRIORITY)
Internal silos Budget issues Staff My existing
marketing platforms
Just Getting Started Middle of the Road Fully Mature
2.7
3.0 3.1
2.3
1.9 1.8
2.8 2.8 2.6
2.2
2.4
2.8
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With the survey insights and qualitative interviews with CMOs, we have amassed
the following five solutions that we hope will help you along your journey:
1. Be the Customer Champion Every Step of the Way
2. Become BFFs with Your CIO
3. Co-design the Optimal Customer-Driven Technology Roadmap
4. Rethink Your Marketing Organization and Processes
5. Establish a System for Continuous Improvement
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Engage the Organization
Create a Customer-centric Culture
Now more than ever, CMOs need to map out every single stage of the customer
journey, from consideration to engagement to purchase to advocacy and associate
that back to a desired experience. Then they must associate it with the underlying
technology that can deliver a personalized experience in a seamless manner
across channels. Each stage may have multiple touch points and various channels
that all need to be considered when creating not just the technology road map,
but also the engagement and touch point road map—which is more executional for
marketers. This rolls up to an evolving customer journey map which incorporates
a customer’s experience and interactions with your brand—regardless if you think
you are driving it.
The topic of customer journey mapping has been around a long time, but often
has been limited by data that was captured via the online world or transactional
data from point of sale (POS). From web and email to mobile and social, there’s
a wealth of information to capture and use as the driver for mapping marketing
automation, service, and loyalty programs. The Digital Body Language map is one
representation of capturing the customer journey across all touch points.
BE THE CUSTOMER CHAMPION EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
SOLUTION #1:
Digital Body Language
Source: Oracle Marketing Cloud
RESEARCH SHOP PURCHASE PICKUP USE
WEB
CONTACT
CENTER
IN-STORE
CATALOG
MOBILE
EMAIL
SOCIAL
Browse
Catalog
Web
Search
Comparison Site
Ask Facebook Friends For
Recommendations
Read Reviews
Product Info
Visit Retail Store
Kiosk
Select Product
Order Online
Chat
Change Order
Email Order
Confirm w/Rec
Tweet About
Purchase Experience
Pickup Local Store
Ask for Help on
Community Chat Room
Call for Info about
Add-on Accessories
Order Online
Understand the Customer Journey and Technology Requirements for Engagement
12. The CMO Solution Guide to Leveraging New Technology and Marketing Platforms12
When he was CMO of Wells Fargo Advisors, Chris Moloney, who is currently
Chief Digital Officer at ARIA Consulting LLC, says it was easy to see if someone
engaged online. “We built a lead attribution model that allowed us to track where
customers were coming from and what content they consumed that led them to
become a lead.”
However, where online tracking has been exceptionally helpful in identifying
individual customer behavior online, it has also become a source of aggravation
because of the limitations in connecting internal customer data with external data.
Primarily this was due to an inability to efficiently link and source offline, attitudinal,
and unstructured data from social channels for the big picture of the customer
experience journey.
The most critical first step in designing any customer journey map is to create a
dialog with your customers and find out what they think through polls or surveys.
Then you can match those findings back to what you already have in online data
and CRM data. Finally, you need to look for gaps and determine which customers
established a relationship with you through offline channels.
Research shows that most customers seek outside input before making a
significant purchase decision. This process usually includes recommendations,
referrals and input from family and friends. Once a consumer has a list of choices,
they typically use a process of elimination to shorten their list. Marketers must
understand the importance of showing up right when consumers are at this stage
of the purchase journey. It can be the key to successful marketing.
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Here is where many marketers are frustrated. They inherently know how important
digital is for top of funnel demand generation, and yet budgets are allocated based
on bottom of the funnel results—conversion. Without adequate funding for the
top of the funnel, it is nearly impossible to compete in today’s environment for
customer mind share.
However, there is still much that can be done today to support every part of the
funnel by fully defining your customer journey, mapping tools and insights to touch
points, and having a marketing platform in place to help aggregate and automate
as many of the engagement tasks as possible.
“Brands today have an enormous
amount of data from Google Search
and how it impacts the bottom of
the purchase funnel. What CMO’s
lack is an understanding of how
important digital can be at the
top of the funnel for branding and
customer awareness.
CMOs need to trust their gut when
it comes to branding and spend at
the top of the funnel because it can
be so hard to quantify. Even without
complete ROI data, digital branding
is incredibly important and deserves
investment.” —CHRIS MOLONEY, CHIEF DIGITAL
OFFICER AT ARIA CONSULTING
“
AWARENESS
CONSIDERATION
INQUIRY
PURCHASE OR LEADS
RETENTION OR SALES
14. The CMO Solution Guide to Leveraging New Technology and Marketing Platforms14
From a purely digital perspective, here are two examples of how to create a
solution around the customer journey with what you are able to assess and
automate using today’s technology:
Products Legend DMP Cross-Channel Marketing Social Marketing Content Marketing
Products Legend DMP Cross-Channel Marketing Social Marketing Content Marketing
Designing a Seamless B2B Customer Experience
Designing a Seamless B2C Customer Experience
Marketer creates
Account Profile
Marketer creates
Audience Profile
Marketer orchestrates thank
you note after purchase
Hears conversations about
upcoming music festival in
Chicago
Marketer positions protecting
face from sun in blog post
Orchestrates SMS based on
preference stated by Ellie
Drives advocacy
Delivers ad to customer
using display partner
Collects anonymous behavior
data about customer
Entices customer to register
and share preferences
Customer is identified
Delivers ad to Account
using DMP Partner
Collects anonymous behavior
data about Account
Entices Account register
based on behavior data
Identifies account as
Jones Construction, Inc.
Account is automatically
added to appropriate
targeting campaign
Automatic Lead Score
makes account available
for telesales followup
Marketer uses Content marketing solution to reinforce
Safety benefit and convert sale
Drives advocacy with Success Story
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“…to ensure every customer
interaction delivers exceptional
results. The mission is to make the
experience so powerful that each
customer becomes our advocate,
motivated by the great results we
have achieved for them, and by
what we have achieved together in
partnership.” —CHRISTINE NASHICK, CHIEF
CUSTOMER OFFICER OF DHL EXPRESS
“
For more on DHL’s ICCC, see
“DHL’S Insanely Customer-Centric Culture Getting Customers Engaged”
Experience has shown that it isn’t enough to focus on seamless alone. Optimizing
each point of interaction—whether it’s online or on-premise—with a superior
experience regardless of channel is the key to delivering the customer experience
you want to provide.
Rose Hamilton, CMO and GM of Pet360 —a division of PetSmart - says: “Knowing
your customers’ issues—such as whether their dog is sick—is the central rally point
for engagement. Our goal is to provide solutions for our customers regardless
of which channel they choose to engage in and the experience may not be the
same in every channel. It can be different when it’s appropriate to leverage the
uniqueness of a channel, as long as it’s relevant. Never think solely in terms of
channel, rather in terms of customer engagement and content. Are you providing
high quality content that brings them closer to your brand and encourages them to
engage further?”
The biggest problem here isn’t a clear understanding of the customer experience
vision, but proper customer attribution to ensure you can appropriately and
relevantly meet customer needs using data management and activation. The role
and evolution of content is another key factor to consider.
It’s important to note that as CMO you own the customer experience—not just as
a marketer to customers—but also as the customer champion for employees who
are often on the front line delivering that customer experience. Some organizations
have established a Chief Customer Officer role that works closely with the CMO to
support this initiative. For example, DHL established the ICCC—which stands for
Insanely Customer-Centric Culture—to push the entire company to deliver a unified
customer experience.
“As CCO, my role is to enhance the customer experience at every level and
every touch point, to re-imagine how our thousands of customers interact with
us. At DHL Express, where service spans more than 220 countries, the mission of
creating powerful customer experiences is a truly global endeavor. We want to
assert a passionate, customer-centric attitude within every facet of our operation,
and encourage every DHL employee to take ownership and solve problems.” —
Christine Nashick, Chief Customer Officer, DHL Express
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Speak the Same Language
Collaborate in Person
“A CMO’s relationship with the CIO has to be very strong and it is for us. It’s an
understanding that the role of technology is to innovate and enhance the way
we’re serving guests across the travel journey - from dreaming and planning, to
booking and at our hotels, to when they return home and share their experiences.”
—Mary Beth Parks, SVP Global Marketing of Hilton Worldwide
CMOs that consider their CIO a BFF are in the minority based on responses
to this question: “How have you been able to leverage your current marketing
platform to integrate your marketing efforts across channels?” Only one of the 112
respondents referenced a positive relationship with their CIO.
Integrate is very much the operative word as well says Mary Ann Fitzmaurice
Reilly, Senior Vice President at American Express who believes “an integrated
partnership with the CIO is vital.”
The need for a CMO and CIO to be aligned was also recently highlighted in
a study by The CMO Club, CIO Magazine, and EPAM entitled The CIO-CMO
Omnichannel Crossroads.
The results of the study—which included survey findings of over 400 CMOs and
CIOs—spoke directly to the fact that the pervasiveness of technology has created
an environment where the demands of the customer experience are ones that
both CIOs and CMOs must address.
And while the findings also revealed an improvement in the relationship between
CMOs and CIOs, there was also a very direct and ominously worded decree: “A
disconnect between the CIO and the CMO threatens to fracture the customer
experience and leave people dissatisfied.” The first step to bridging this rift and
improving the customer experience is learning to speak the same language by
engaging personally.
BECOME BFFs WITH YOUR CIO
48%
By integrating IT systems and
incorporating them into their
marketing campaigns, a market
leader in residential steel roof
production was able to introduce
a targeted SMS campaign
that saw a 48% response rate,
generating an ROI of over
500,000 Euros.
30%
By aligning technology initiatives
with the needs of marketing, a
technology company increased
their conversion rate from sales
qualified opportunities to closed
deals by 30%.
SOLUTION #2:
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Get excited and engaged with technology
One way to become BFFs with your CIO is to embrace technology—literally. As
Cammie Dunaway, President and Global CMO of KidZania, Inc. says: “If you are a
CMO and are not excited and engaged with technology, I question how long you
will be in the job.”
Other actions offer a variety of solutions as highlighted by these CMOs:
Speak the same language
Or said another way, ask questions rather than make assumptions. CMOs and
CIO frequently attribute different meaning to the same words. Semantics matter
and are often the genesis of confusion. The below infographic from the CIO
CMO study offers a first cut at the translation between CIO and CMO language.
And as Cammie Dunaway can attest, taking a class in coding, which she did, was
instrumental in her ability to give good direction and collaborate effectively with
her CIO.
Common Terms, Different Language:
Source: The CIO-CMO Omnichannel Crossroads, from The CMO Club, CIO Magazine and EPAM, July 2014
http://thecmoclub.com/resource/cio-cmo-crossroads/
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Develop a customer-driven technology roadmap
The need to have one technology roadmap is paramount, but unlike technology
maps of the past that are anchored in technology stacking limitations, the
technology roadmap of the future will be a bi-product of the customer journey
and the mutual understanding by the CMO and CIO of that journey. Here is a
comprehensive CMO’s assessment:
The CMO’s Role In Creating the Roadmap
—Julie Lyle, CMO of hhgregg
The challenge is this: Companies that have been in existence for several decades
have most often been built around a traditional structure where marketing and
technology functions basically exist in silos, and only intersect at key points when
ERP systems or similar “back-of-house” support have been needed to implement
projects that marketing has devised.
The CTO does not have a direct line of sight to external forces that affect customer
behaviors and attitudes. The CTO does not have immediate visibility to competitive
moves, marketing/media buying patterns, eCommerce trends, or digital marketing
developments.
Thus, just as it is the CMO’s responsibility to ensure all functional areas in the
organization have real time visibility to external shifts and consumer insights
that could affect merchandise strategies, distribution/in-stock requirements, and
more—the CMO should organize this info to develop the initial road map “straw
man” that is predicated on how to seize these market opportunities, get ahead of
consumer purchasing behaviors, or react to competitive moves that will keep the
organization in the forefront of their sector.
The CMO is also the person with the greatest access/oversight of consumer
insights, market data, research, sales forecasting, and other data points that should
be brought to bear to build the ROI business case for the roadmap proposed.
They are also the “owner” of relationships with third party suppliers—media buyers,
ecommerce suppliers, digital marketing resources, etc.—which spend most of the
associated road map dollars, and which must seamlessly integrate technologies,
strategies and measurement to ensure any roadmap’s success.
“A company’s success will be
centered on the customer centricity
focus across the C-Suite,” said Pete
Krainik, CEO and Founder, The
CMO Club. “The CMO’s expertise
on customers and the CIO’s
expertise on customer-centric IT/
digital platform delivery will be the
alignment point for success
or failure.”
“Companies with CIO and CMO
alignment achieved a 15.4%
increase in annual revenue.”
—ENHANCING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE THROUGH
CIO AND CMO ALIGNMENT, ABERDEEN GROUP
“
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All of these data points will be essential to garnering support for any agreement
on the roadmap, changes to it, gaining buy-in from the CEO cross-functional
executives, and ultimately selling the roadmap—with associated investment and
projected ROI—to the Board.
In today’s world, deep and broad understanding of marketing principles, business
objectives and the latest in technology tools are essential elements of the strategic
plan for developing meaningful relationships with customers, and delivering
friction-free, omnichannel experiences for consumers.
This can be achieved one of three ways:
1. The CMO develops—and maintains in real time—a deep and thorough
understanding of the vast technology, communications, and mobile platforms
that are evolving and touching consumers every day in addition to their current
responsibilities.
2. The CTO/CIO develops—and maintains in real time—a deep and thorough
understanding of the vast marketing, media, and customer relationship
management (CRM) advances that are shaping consumers’ attitudes and how
they engage with brands and businesses every day in addition to their current
responsibilities.
3. The CMO and CTO/CIO need to work very closely together from the very
beginning of developing the strategic plan and then manage their teams and
associated budgets through execution and measurement.
“For me Option #3 is the only
realistic option and it has worked
for me many times. In this context,
I will tell you that the CMO should
lead the process of building these
coalitions with their technology
colleague(s) within the business. I
regularly reach out to our CTO and
schedule time to sit down with him
to review a “straw man” road map
that we have developed, revised
or significantly re-written due to
changes in business priorities,
shifts in EBITDA and CapEx
funding targets, new technology
advancements that are impacting
consumer expectations, competitive
shifts, etc.” – JULIE LYLE, CMO OF HHGREGG
“
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Even though CMOs and CIOs are in agreement that a winning customer
experience is the key to long-term competitive advantage, there remains work to
be done on the technology strategy for getting there. Once you’ve established the
relationship with your CIO and have your digital team on the same page, it’s time to
design your technology roadmap so you can execute on your marketing initiatives.
Invest in the technologies that specifically enable your programs and campaigns
and drive results and revenue for your business lines and customers. Let’s start
with the foundation you need to bring that innovation to life.
Start with a solid foundation.
There’s a reason almost every marketing technology presentation starts with a
picture of a thousand dizzying vendor logos. The rise of innovation across the
digital marketing landscape has come at a cost. The average marketing stack
consists of as many as 17 or more tools, requiring dozens of custom integration
projects that few marketers have time or budget to support.1
Part of that comes down to understanding that ecosystem in the first place.
While vendors like to invent categories to drive venture capital investment and
awareness—hence the marketing tech landscape graphic you saw earlier—all of
that technology basically comes down to these three layers:
CO-DESIGN THE OPTIMAL CUSTOMER-DRIVEN
TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP
1
http://www.signal.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Signal-Cross-Channel-Marketing-and-Technology-Survey-Sept-2014.pdf
SOLUTION #3:
“There are so many solutions out
there. Managing it all requires
a substantial time investment. I
want a partner who can lay out
a roadmap for me. We have
57 vendors just in marketing
technology. And you need a
data scientist who has the keys
to unlock what you’re sitting on.”
—JENN MCMILLEN, VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING &
CRM AT MICHAELS STORES
“
Foundation: Cross-Channel, Content, and Social Marketing
Platform – Open or Proprietary?
Data – Data Management Platform (DMP)
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1) Marketing Data. How do marketers leverage data to better target their
audiences? Examples include data management platforms, marketing attribution,
analytics, tag management, and third-party data suppliers.
2) Marketing Applications. These are centered on the tactical execution of
marketing programs and generally the external engagement layer for customers.
They include campaign management tools, email marketing, and content
marketing solutions that initiate and nurture customer conversations.
3) Media. This focuses on the delivery of paid digital advertising and includes ad
networks, ad exchanges, and demand-side platforms. They enable marketers to
serve up personalized display, paid search and social campaigns.
Now with that in mind, imagine that architecting your enterprise marketing
ecosystem is like designing a modular building that may need to evolve over time
as new initiatives are added or subtracted. Unless you want all the additions you
eventually make to look forced and unnatural, it’s important to build a foundation
that makes it easy to connect all of the above areas of the marketing ecosystem
with ease. Think of them as solutions rather than products.
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To establish your infrastructure and framing, focus on these five solution areas:
Data Management Platform
Data management platforms enable you to take marketing data from just about
anywhere and connect it together as a singular taxonomy to use when you want
to target audiences with relevant messages. This could be proprietary data you
own—such as CRM data or data collected on your website—or it could be third-
party data you buy. Either way, you want a platform that takes the hard work away
from doing this and empowers the marketers to target the right audience.
Cross-Channel Marketing
In our era of always-on connectivity, customers don’t travel in linear paths that are
structured or predictable. You can imagine cross-channel marketing as a canvas or
sheet music where a marketer can orchestrate specific cross-channel interactions
across email, mobile, display, social, and web interactions based on behaviors and
preferences. It’s important that data can automatically be used based on the real-
time actions a customer performs so they can direct their own paths.
Content Marketing
Traditional content management systems are necessary for managing your
website or product web pages. But too often, it’s that complex system that requires
technical help to manage and scale. Content marketing systems are fundamentally
different. They make it simple for any marketer to create, manage, and scale
content across the customer lifecycle and on any channel. It’s now almost become
a cliché to focus on the “right message, right time, on the right channel,” but that’s
really what content marketing systems do.
Social Marketing
Customers talk. A lot. But how do you turn those social conversations into
something that’s actionable and drives revenue? First, it starts with taking those
unstructured conversations into something that’s understandable. Leveraging
patented technologies like latent semantic analysis can help. What trends
might you hear? Well, let’s imagine you were taking a pair of noise-cancelling
headphones to market. When you listen to conversations, one thing that always
comes up is “business travel.” With integrated social marketing, you could take that
data point and use it for targeting in your data management platform or for cross-
channel orchestration in your cross-channel marketing.
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Analytics & Testing
Beware: Today’s “journey builders” lay in pre-defined steps on generic paths
where the majority of consumers rarely travel. So it’s important to ensure your
cross-channel marketing can automatically adapt to real-time behaviors. Cross-
channel marketing should also empower you to analyze how these personalized
interactions drive revenue (and on what channel), and test different experiences to
optimize your strategy.
Connecting third-party applications
Once you’ve established the foundation of cross-channel, content, and social
marketing with a data management platform, you may want to consider adding
other applications to extend your abilities for event marketing, webinars, video, or
a dozen other needs. Much like how your smartphone has default email, contacts,
texting, photos, and music, you may want to add apps for specialized functionality.
That’s why an open platform is essential so you can take advantage of pre-
integrated plug-in marketing apps.
Adopting open platform architecture
As mentioned previously CMOs need to have a living, breathing roadmap. But it
also has to be an open roadmap or platform strategy. What does “open platform”
really mean? It’s the agility to integrate third-party applications and data quickly and
seamlessly into your marketing platform so you are not limited to vendor-specific
applications and proprietary data sources.
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Key Features of Open Platforms
• Open architecture for accessing best-of-breed marketing and sales
applications.
• Ability to fully integrate third-party apps directly into your integrated marketing
campaigns.
• Integration with leading data providers to automatically add revenue, industry,
and geographic data to leads.
• Tools for cleaning and refreshing your marketing database in real time.
• Applications for automating manual efforts such as exporting and uploading lists.
Why is it critical to have an open platform?
The CMO and CIO need to invest in open technology platforms that allow their
organization to maximize the marketing technology investments made today, while
being ready for the ones that come tomorrow. In other words, the technology
purchased today should be able to connect with the technology you’ll want to
purchase tomorrow.
With technology changing rapidly, how can a brand or organization stay abreast or
even ahead of its competition as it relates to the use of technology as a means to
deliver on the optimal customer experience?
“The focus shouldn’t be to always stay ahead of technology. The speed and
succession in which the platforms change is mind-boggling. The focus should
be aimed at making sure that you are investing in the technology that makes the
most sense for your specific business and customers.” —Michael Williams, CMO of
Grand Prix of America, Formula 1
“By being curious and humble and not becoming a victim of “shiny object
syndrome.” This is one area where you have to slow down to speed up. I spend
time learning and listening to my peers. For example, I was one of the first people
to join IBM’s CMO Advisory Board and remain very loyal to this day. While it helps
keep me focused on changes in technology, it also provides an environment that
is safe and supportive. No one knows the right answers, but you can’t be afraid to
ask the questions.” —Seth Farbman, former CMO of GAP
Marketing App
Examples
• Advertising
• CRM Integrations
• Channel Management
• Collaboration & Community
• Content Marketing
• Data
• Data Partners
• Incentives
• Lead Management
• Mobile
• Offline
• Predictive Analytics
• Sales Enablement Apps
• Social
• Video & Interactive
• Webinars & Events
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“We have to start with a belief that technology will continue to evolve and
expand exponentially but organizations and brands will only change and evolve
algorithmically – that is the reality of the marketing world and that will not seize.
Most brands and marketers only utilize 15% of technologies and capabilities they
are already paying for, so the focus should not necessarily be in adopting more
technologies because we should, but in their “application” and how they connect
together to solve business needs and change consumer behaviors.” —Mayur
Gupta, Global Head, Marketing Technology & Innovation, Kimberly-Clark
It all begins and ends with data
Data is the fuel of all our marketing activities. Your customers and prospective
buyers are savvy, empowered, and carry high expectations for personalization
across all interactions. Without the right data, analytics, or capabilities in place to
manage our data sources, our communications will never compete for customer
mindshare with those who have mastered the art of delivering personalized
communication in the right channel, at the right time, and with the right message.
Multiple data sources, splintered views of consumer profiles and inconsistent
messaging across multiple channels are common challenges faced by CMOs
trying to manage vast amounts of data without a data management platform (DMP).
“Data and technology are the
lynchpin that connects the
experience together across
channels, sharing data signals
that reflect and predict consumer
behavior and using marketing
technologies to deliver the
most contextual, relevant and
personalized messaging to the
right person, at the right time at
a channel and touch point of her
choice.” —MAYUR GUPTA, GLOBAL HEAD,
MARKETING TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION,
KIMBERLY-CLARK
“Single source of customer data
has been our biggest new success
story for improved cross channel
program and campaigns.” —CMO SURVEY
RESPONDENT
“We need to flip the paradigm of big
data. Instead of looking for big data
to tell us what our customers want or
try and convince them to do what we
want, we should use it to evaluate
what we create.”
—SETH FARBMAN, FORMER CMO OF GAP
“
75%
By sharing data between departments and removing
inactive contacts, a professional sports organization
increased online revenue by 75%.
400%
In just two months, sales reps for a leading social network
reduced their average lead contact time by 400% and
improved conversion rates by 250%.
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What types of data do you use?
Here are the three different types of data that every marketer is wrestling with:
How would we categorize and organize it?
The first step is to conduct a data audit: “To assess how a company’s data is fit for
a given purpose. This involves profiling the data and assessing the impact of poor
quality data on the organization’s performance and profits.”
This process dictates how data taxonomy is created so you can more effectively
leverage information about your customers as groundwork for your marketing.
This is hard work but pays dividends, as a strong foundation built on the right data
sources creates an excellent foundation for defining the most qualified prospects.
How do we manage it?
A data management platform (DMP) is a centralized marketing data tool that allows
you to create target audiences based on a combination of in-depth first-party and
third-party audience data. You can more accurately target campaigns to these
audiences across third-party ad networks and exchanges. You can also measure
with accuracy which campaigns performed the best across segments and channels
to refine media buys and ad creative over time.
1st Party Data: Quite simply this is your data. It’s the data that you have collected from the actions
or behaviors of visitors to your website combined with data in your CRM systems, social media
data, subscription data, or multi-channel data gleaned from mobile sites or apps.
2nd Party Data: This is essentially someone else’s first-party data that you can use to help achieve
your marketing goals. For example, you can form a mutually beneficial relationship with another
company whereby you each share your respective first-party data.
3rd Party Data: This data is consolidated from websites and social media platforms other than
your own. Third-party data helps marketers reach a wider audience, and when used in conjunction
with a campaign, can help marketers reach more diverse and targeted audience groups.
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You can use your own online and offline first-party data to create audience
segments for display, search, video, and social campaigns. You can apply it to ad
campaigns targeting audience across the purchase funnel and get visibility into the
ROI each campaign delivered for each segment. Marketers can pull in and analyze
all audience data presenting a 360-degree view of how campaigns perform
against specific target audiences.
You need a DMP if:
• You manage multiple online campaigns across different networks, exchanges,
and publishers
• You want to ensure you have control over your data assets, maximize
segmentation, prevent leakage and monitor partners’ usage
• You currently run retargeting and would like to enhance your scalability, nich-
targeting and messaging capabilities
• You want to better target campaigns to improve response rates, conversions,
and brand recognition
• You buy media placements, third-party audience data or bid on ad exchanges
on a regular basis
• You want to control advertising costs and improve overall ROI
Data
Management
Platform
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Skills – Creation of New Cross-Functional Teams
Talent – Data Scientist and Campaign Artist
There are many formal and informal opportunities to create collaboration across
marketing departments and technology. You can integrate with or without formal
organizational changes.
Create new cross-functional teams
Cammie Dunaway, President and Global CMO of Kidzania Inc., invited her CIO to
join her at a Kidzania property in Mexico where together they walked the floor.
From there, they rolled up their sleeves to evaluate every aspect of the customer
experience and identify how technology should not just deliver, but inspire their
customers in new ways. They instituted a routine cross-functional meeting with their
teams to ensure they were staying on track and applying insights they gathered.
They also set up a standing weekly one on one where they could connect on any
issues the teams were having and align on new ideas and priorities. Dedicating the
time to get to know each other was a critical part of success.
Rose Hamilton, CMO and GM of Pet360—a division of PetSmart —not only
oversees marketing, but also technology. She is truly a CMTO—a Chief
Marketing Technology Officer—and is able to fully implement a cross-functional,
integrated team. Among all the work processes redesign, she leveraged seating
arrangements as a way to break down silos and ensure marketing and technology
are working together.
Even if you don’t own technology, you can collaborate with your CIO to create
dedicated work teams to support your vision or take it one extra step and formalize
the new hybrid team that sits beneath both of you.
“I report up into our CMO, Clive Sirkin who in partnership with our CIO has given
us the platform to establish a global marketing technology organization that
RETHINK YOUR MARKETING ORGANIZATION AND
PROCESSES
41%
Using progressive profiling and
content marketing, a content
management software company
saw the number of new sales-
ready business leads increase
by 41%, significantly impacting
revenue.
25%
When an industrial automation
company implemented cross-
channel marketing mapped
to the customer journey,
conversions improved by 25%.
SOLUTION #4:
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works very closely with the brands, marketing planning and agency teams. Our
goal and imperative is to leverage enterprise, innovative and tactical/localized
marketing technologies across the worlds of Content, Data and Commerce to
ultimately deliver a Seamless Consumer Experience within this complex Omni
Channel World.” —Mayur Gupta, Global Head, Marketing Technology & Innovation,
Kimberly-Clark
Hire left-brain and right-brain talent
As critical to building the right culture and cross-functional environment is hiring
the right talent. While marketing has long been the realm of creative campaign
artists, they must now share the stage with data scientists.
“It’s very important to build marketing teams based on digital and technology
capabilities and how skillsets align with overall marketing objectives and strategic
priorities for the company. When we create that alignment, we enable results that
can be truly transformative for our campaigns and the company.” —Mary Beth
Parks, SVP Global Marketing of Hilton Worldwide
Harvard Business Review called Data Scientist the sexiest job of the 21st century
and the White House has even acknowledged the need by hiring its first Chief
Data Scientist earlier this year. The role—defined by Harvard Business Review as
“a high-ranking professional with the training and curiosity to make discoveries
in the world of big data”—is not only becoming popular but also competitive as
companies seek to hire the most qualified. Companies such as Google are causing
a growing amount of frustration among CMOs who sometimes cannot compete
with the offers of high technology companies.
“All the technology available is only as good as the people driving it.” —Michael
Williams, CMO, The Grand Prix of America, Formula 1
And then there is the infamous Millennial. We’ll save that topic for a different
day, but in case you missed it, check out this daring article from Lauren Martin in
Generation Y called 50 Things About Millennials That Make Corporate America
Sh*T Its Pants.
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Results Oriented – Test, Learn, Repeat
Once the customer journey, team alignment, and technology requirements have
been identified, you need to establish a system for continuous improvement. The
customer is outpacing companies in terms of their expectations for personalized
service compared to a company’s ability to act on the information—both
technologically and analytically. It is important to create a continuous loop of
information to drive intelligent changes to the roadmap shared between the CMO
and CIO.
Be vigilantly agile and risk receptive
Remember though, that the need to be vigilantly agile is not necessarily the same
thing as speed.
“Technology has completely changed what fast means. We are on an agility
mission right now because speed is different than agility. What we’re trying to build
is the capability to go in new directions fast, not just go straight ahead fast, and
that’s a really different muscle for us to build.” —Jeff Jones, CMO, Target
“Agility is more important today because of the velocity of technological
advancements, the convergence of channels, and the increasing empowerment
that instant access to information provides today’s consumers.” —Julie Lyle, CMO of
hhgregg
The CMO of today must—in addition to being agile—be open to taking chances
and remain risk receptive. However, this stance is not about taking risks just for
the sake of taking them, it’s about taking calculated risks to realize innovation and
achieve success.
“Technology provides a consistent feedback loop, which helps a brand know if its
products, service, experiences and messages are useful to customers. Today, we
are still required to aggregate information and insights from many tools-- CRM, social
listening, POS and ecommerce data, etc.-- but together, they provide an almost
ESTABLISH A SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
SOLUTION #5:
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immediate read on how you’re doing. That should translate to greater risk-taking and
invention, which ultimately lead to success.” —Seth Farbman, former CMO of GAP
Test. Learn. Repeat
It is vitally important for CMOs to not dive headfirst into any new technology
without running a pilot or test program first to see if it does in fact align with your
business needs and goals.
“The key for brands today is not only adopt an agile mindset and culture but to
also have an increased focus on testing.”—Mayur Gupta, Global Head, Marketing
Technology & Innovation, Kimberly-Clark
Tracking marketing ROI via technology is the most transformative factor marketers
face today. An analysis-driven marketer understands the value in transforming a
company website into a powerful tool for systematically driving lead generation
and cultivating, engaging, and capturing sales opportunities.
“Technology enables us to monitor how customers respond to the experience
we offer at each touch point. We can test enhancements, track impact (from
the customer’s POV), and leverage the insights we garner for continuous
improvement.”—Julie Lyle, CMO of hhgregg
Marketing automation helps manage your workflow so you can glean key data
that will maximize your customer relationship management, social monitoring, and
business intelligence investments.
Core analysis metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) can include:
• Deliverability rate
• Click through rate
• Form conversions
• Growth rate of followers
• Engagement rates and referrals
• Cost per lead
• Cost per click
• Leads generated
• Content influence
• Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs)
• Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs)
• Lifetime Customer Value
• Lead to close ratio
• Customer retention rate
• Projected return on investment
56%
By realigning the metrics they
used and focusing only on
quality leads, a manufacturer
saw a 56% increase in lead
conversion, even though they
were passing fewer leads to
dealers overall.
$120 Million
By focusing on accounts, using
technology solutions to provide
the right metrics, and driving
results through those metrics,
this global leader in technology
business solutions achieved
a 30–40% lift in targeted
account engagement worth
approximately $120 million.
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Needless to say these are merely a sample of the metrics that can be tested and
measured. As the CMO, you and your team will know precisely what KPIs matter the
most when it comes to reaching your specific marketing goals and business needs.
The key is continuous learning and leveraging that learning to optimize your skills.
“Even the best golfers in the world still practice every Sunday. The same principle
applies here. Marketers can never give up or rest up. They need to continually
seek out new ways to better themselves.” —Chris Moloney, Managing Partner &
Chief Digital Officer at ARIA Consulting LLC
The Payoff Of Marketing Measurement On Revenue Performance
The ability to track key performance indicators with analysis tools is emerging
as a path to greatly increase marketing’s ability to impact revenue performance.
Progressive marketers are now using these tools as radar to spot and accelerate
the programs having the biggest impact on sales forecasts and pipeline.
“Many organizations struggle to compute ROI. Merely one-fourth report having
established key performance indicators to help them measure the impact of their
digital transformation. The three biggest reasons why: companies have trouble
defining how to successfully define key performance indicators (KPIs), lack of
management skills to carry through on KPIs, and needing cultural changes to make
KPIs work.” —Embracing Digital Technology: A New Strategic Imperative, MIT Sloan
Management Review
Smart marketers are realizing that measurement tools allow them to reverse-
engineer their strategies and processes, providing fact-based intelligence on
factors such as:
Ultimately, ROI and other metrics point to how marketing is helping to influence
and drive revenue, and more marketers are being evaluated and compensated
against revenue performance metrics. It is the major task of the CMO to make the
right connections between new important customer metrics and contribution to
both top and bottom line growth. This in turn will build credibility with the C-suite
and Board, leading to more effective budgeting discussions.
• Campaign performance
• Media mix
• Content offers
• Market segmentation
• Revenue contribution
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CONCLUSION
“My role will be much bigger as tools will make it easier to develop more comprehensive cross
channel programs.”
“My role will continue to expand as marketing platform and tools make it easier for us to measure
success of customer experience changes led by marketing.”
“Should have much larger role in the future as marketing gets tied to customer experience more
and more.”
“Will have bigger role in the future as customer experience plays a bigger and bigger role in
brand building.”
John Sculley, the former CEO of Pepsi and Apple once said: “The future belongs to
those who see possibilities before they become obvious.”
It would appear that a great number of CMOs are already acutely aware of the
possibilities that await them as it relates to the overall customer experience. When
queried what the difference in their role today versus what it will look like five
years from now, respondents indicated by a nearly two-to-one margin they think
they will have a larger role in terms of the overall customer experience.
A random sampling of replies include:
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When the only constant is change, the new role of the CMO dictates the use of
new technologies and marketing platforms to increase competitive advantage.
There is an undeniable need for CMOs to be constantly vigilant when it comes to
monitoring the technologies and platforms they utilize and depend on. The health
of their brand demands it.
But that is only part of the equation. For not only must CMOs consistently keep
one eye on their present technologies and platforms, they must keep their other
eye on the future. Each day sees a new technology or platform emerge that could
potentially impact their job in a very profound way.
The key will be for CMOs to work closely with their BFFs (AKA CIOs) to weed
through the seemingly never-ending pool of new technologies and platforms and
make informed, intelligent decisions that positively impact their organization.
As we close The CMO Solution Guide to Leveraging New Technology and
Marketing Platforms, we will leave you with one final thought. It comes from
Christine Nashick, Chief Customer Officer at DHL Express.
“The danger for brands and organizations that do not deliver a consistent positive
customer experience across all touch points are many, but at the top of the list are
loss of loyalty and patronage and a negative impact on brand reputation.”
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Nadine Dietz,
Chief Marketing Officer of The CMO Club
With 20 years of management experience through manufacturing, retail, research,
consulting, and software design, Nadine has a solid appreciation for both B2B and
B2C executive challenges. From hands-on customer engagement tactics to savvy
C-level strategy design her passion has always been in providing simple solutions
for sophisticated problems and delivering remarkable customer experience. This
drive has led her to The CMO Club, where she is responsible for helping members
connect and solve their toughest business challenges today.
Steve Olenski
Sr. Content Strategist/Sr. Writer, Oracle Marketing Cloud
From being named one of the Top 100 Influencers In Social Media and a Top 50
Social Media Blogger a few years ago to most recently being named one of the
26 Content Marketing experts to follow in 2015, Steve has established himself as
a well-respected influencer in the marketing, advertising and branding space. A
regular contributor to Forbes and Huffington Post, his work has also appeared in
Business Insider, Social Media Today, Marketing Land, Ad Age and Ad Week to
name a few. His writing and content skills are on display on a daily basis in his role
as Sr. Content Strategist/Sr. Writer for the Oracle Marketing Cloud.
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