Rise
of the
Chief
Marketing      by Scott Brinker
Technologist    @chiefmartec
You—creative technologists—have
changed the agency world.
Founded 1917
Agency:
Creative




Brand:
Customers
“That’s not a bug, it’s a feature.”
But it’s sure starting to look like a bug…
ZMOT: Winning the Zero Moment of Truth, Jim Lecinski
ZMOT: Winning the Zero Moment of Truth, Jim Lecinski
Distance between creative and
customer experience.
Creative and customer experience
         are now blurred.
Welcome to the CMO’s world.
From Stretched to Strengthened, IBM Global CMO Study 2011
“I feel more like a CIO than a CMO! I have
 marketing automation, CRM, listening
 platforms—I’m up to my eyeballs in
 technology.”
New technology is
constantly emerging.
Brands continuously seek differentiation.
Software is now easy to create and scale.
The Golden Age of Marketing Software.
Software has become how marketing
    sees and touches the world.
Analytics shapes perceptions.
Automation guides processes.
Optimization hones tactics.
Listening directs engagement.
Targeting defines segments.
CRM structures relationships.
A whole lot of “do.”
So who does the “do?”
Marketing




IT
Marketing’s perceptions of IT:

IT is the department of “no.”
IT doesn’t speak marketing’s language.
IT doesn’t understand the need for speed.
IT isn’t concerned with the customer.


                 Mastering Customer Data—A CIO Imperative, Forrester Research July 2011
IT’s perceptions of marketing:

Marketing is spin.
Marketers don’t care about integration.




                 Mastering Customer Data—A CIO Imperative, Forrester Research July 2011
The
            Marketing
Standardize            Experiment
            Technology
               Cycle
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  Traditional   IT        Mktg                        IT                Mktg      Committee




                IT        Mktg                        IT         i      Mktg
  Co-located                                                                      Liaison
                           IT




                                                              Mktg
                IT        Mktg
  Embedded                                                                        Direct Report
                           MT
                                                                 IT


                IT        Mktg                        IT                Mktg
Independent                                                                       Outsourced (Mktg)
                     MT                                                 Outside
                                                                         MT


                                                      IT                Mktg
Joint Venture   IT   MT Mktg                                                      Outsourced (IT)
                                                    Outside
                                                     MT




                IT                                    IT                Mktg
     Practice             Mktg                                                    Outsourced Triangle
                MT                                            Outside
      Center                                                   MT




      Hostile   IT        Mktg                             IT         Mktg        Merged


                                IT   Marketing   Marketing Technology
King Solomon’s Marketing-Technology Split




           (Not a good idea.)
This is interesting and all, but
why should you care?
Data from Gartner 2012, graphic by IBM.
The               Creative
                  Agencies
Marketing
Technology
Frenemy
Triangle            CMO



                    CIO


       Tech                  Software
    Consultants              Vendors
“He who controls the spice,
  controls the universe.”
“He who controls
  the software,
   controls the
   marketing.”
Creative technologists &
marketing technologists
          BFF.
Agency:
Creative




Brand:
Customers
Creative Technologists Meet Marketing Technologists
Creative Technologists Meet Marketing Technologists

Creative Technologists Meet Marketing Technologists

Editor's Notes

  • #24 Now, I’m not saying that everyone in the marketing department has to be a technologist.
  • #43 Speaking of contention… let’s talk about the relationship between marketing and IT for a moment. It sometimes feels like this. But having worked on both sides of the divide, I can say that there’s a very logical reason for this tug-of-war. Marketing and IT have different goals and incentives.