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Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 20161
A GUIDE TO IMPROVING COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE AND HEALTH OUTCOMES
Thought Leadership Series
FIVE PEOPLE-BASED
MARKETING STRATEGIES
CROOM LAWRENCE & DEB FUREY
1.877.9MERKLE | MERKLEINC.COM | © 2016 MERKLE INC. 2
Introduction: People-Based Marketing Comes of Age in Healthcare...................................................................... 4
1) Accelerate Your Planning Cycles ........................................................................................................................ 5
2) Motivate with Brand Storytelling........................................................................................................................ 7
3) Reimagine Behavior Change ............................................................................................................................ 10
4) Plan for Next Gen Immersion............................................................................................................................ 12
5) Disrupt with Unique Partnerships..................................................................................................................... 13
Conclusion: A New Paradigm to Improve Organizational Velocity...................................................................... 15
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 20163
REAL-TIME AUTOMATION WILL INCREASE
THE RATE AT WHICH WE CAN CHANGE
CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR, IMPROVE HEALTH
OUTCOMES, AND DRIVE BUSINESS IMPACT.
CROOM LAWRENCE & DEB FUREY
1.877.9MERKLE | MERKLEINC.COM | © 2016 MERKLE INC. 4
In 2016, healthcare marketers will plan, personalize, and execute marketing cycles faster than ever before.
With newly onboarded automation capabilities, omni-channel teams will convert insights into performance
and harness the value of their most important assets: their customer relationships. Until recently, most
healthcare companies have found themselves at levels 2 and 3 in the organizational maturity map because of
technology limitations and manual marketing processes (see Figure 1). Levels 4 and 5 are now within reach to
deliver personalized event streams at scale with real-time decisioning optimized for individual relevance.
Healthcare marketers must now turn to organizational velocity—pushing how quickly they can move beyond
single-tactic views and begin to connect journeys across touchpoints, across devices, from online to offline,
and from digital to live customer service. Healthcare marketers must do all of this in ways that have never been
done before in healthcare.
The breakthrough for healthcare marketers is the ability to pinpoint target audiences and deliver experiences
specific to individuals across a structured brand journey. Big and small health brands alike will shift dollars
to addressable media—which increases effectiveness and measurability—especially in capabilities such as
addressable search,
programmatic display,
and social. The good news
for healthcare marketers
is that many marketing
innovations are already
in use at scale—which
may just exist in other
consumer categories and
can be easily ported over
if they have a favorable
regulatory profile.1
INTRODUCTION: PEOPLE-BASED
MARKETING COMES OF AGE IN HEALTHCARE
Customer
Focused
Enterprise
engagement
High value
Low value
Campaign
Focused
Business unit/
media engagement
Individual event streams are automated
and deployed/optimized in real time
Connected experiences based on known
and anonymous identity delivered across
all devices, platforms
Integrated campaigns are manually integrated,
measured, and adjusted at speed of human touch
Single campaign, simple data, minimal offer
and customer customization
Centralized database infrastructure; data is consolidated into
one hub for centralized reporting and insights
Level 5
Level 4
Level 3
Level 2
Level 1
Moving from
level 3 to
level 4 is hard
Figure 1: Organizational maturity map
1The Wall Street Journal. (2015, December). The Future of Everything.
Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 20165
ACCELERATE YOUR
PLANNING CYCLES1
Moving faster in 2016 means marketers will conduct more frequent planning cycles based on
accelerated intelligence and in-market trigger events. Whether it’s a competitive launch, a newly
predicted dip in revenue, or defection of a key target, marketers will rely on more frequent, faster planning
cycles, which will be instrumental in navigating the disruptive change. Planning tools are being built
to organize smarter, bigger data that will be structured to support specific planning steps—for example,
segmentation, copy testing, and more aggressive in-market test-and-learn plans.
Data development is pivotal in planning
Healthcare systems are speeding up. Just as hospitals are enabling practitioners and patients to monitor more
interactions, the volume of healthcare data is increasing. The Internet of Things is putting gas on the fire as
the deluge of portable and wearable devices that produce health and engagement data streams will bring large
volumes of unstructured data that risk bogging down the overall marketing ecosystem. Going forward, all
marketers must be connected to both strategic planners and well-trained data scientists who can effectively
link the data back to discrete marketing strategy, plan tools, and steps; distill learnings; and provide seasoned
guidance. Customer relationship experts who can master both the marketing and the clinical health data
sides are well-suited to structure not only the customer experience, but also the data fields and segmentation
algorithms required to deliver the individual care experience.
Another interesting application
we expect to see this year is
doctors being proactive in making
appointments with specific
patients—doctors will need to feed
their businesses with streaming
addressable customer data sets to
help identify high-value, high-risk
prospects. That data can trigger
appointment requests and proactive
services based on individual needs.
Doctors of the future will further
test real-time alerts and reminders
preempting, and thus, potentially
preventing larger, more invasive
medical interventions.2
Media Optimization, Targeting,
Messaging, Offers, Value Proposition
Engage with Broadcast, Direct,
Online, Outdoor, and Social Media
Marketing Programs
Campaign Reporting Analysis, Research
Results and Analysis, Database
Management, Marketing Impact
Scorecards, Segmentations and Brand Role
Campaign Responses, Opt-ins,
Registrations, Research Participation,
User-generated Content (Data Appends)
Learn, Do,
Enjoy, Share,
Heal
Test and Learn
Plans, Market
Game Plans,
Segment Game
Plans, Message
and Engagement
Frameworks,
Master and
Segment Briefs
Faster Cycles of
Strategic
Planning
Figure 2. Accelerated strategic planning and response cycle
2
The Wall Street Journal. (2015, December). The Future of Everything.
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Marketers are quickly building relationships with wearable manufacturers as they
bring new datasets online to better communicate to patients the value of embedding
more advanced sensors. New chip sets, like the LG SmartThinQ Sensor, as seen at
the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016, will do more to connect devices and
appliances at home and in healthcare settings. Further, the Samsung Bio-Processor,
now in mass production, has even more exciting potential in monitoring health,
since it’s packed with more sensor units to stream information like bioelectrical impedance analysis. Others
focus on volumetric measurements of organs, an electrocardiogram, and skin temperature, among other things.3
Artificial intelligence will continue to emerge in healthcare
Look at the momentum in voice recognition software at Google, Amazon, and
Apple. Voice recognition is the gateway to artificial intelligence as forecasted in Ray
Kurzweil’s “How to Create a Mind.” Without a doubt, companies that want to build
competitive advantage must take initial steps to automate marketing processes and
connect internal client-side platforms with third-party platforms. With IBM’s Watson
winning a “Top 50 Creative Person” in Ad Age December 2015, expect the artificial
intelligence theme to advance with new, exciting applications in healthcare that
humanize and individualize care at greater scale.4
Beginning with breakthroughs in
voice recognition software the past few years—not only with Apple’s Siri, but also
now with Amazon’s Echo that connects voice, e-shopping, and content services—in
2016, we’ll be looking at how these tools can help define new marketing innovations
and services that create more valuable customer relationships.
Benchmarking helps drive strategic investments
Finally, all this data outpouring has to result in better benchmarking data to structure investments, drive
continuous improvement, and help embed customer needs at the center of the organization. With more effective
people-based marketing platforms, this influx in data can be harnessed, and marketers can bring along the right
integrated teams to normalize marketing life in a more real-time setting.
ACCELERATE YOUR
PLANNING CYCLES (CONT.)
1
ACTION ITEM:
Trigger a planning cycle based on an in-market event, disruptive competitive
activity, or shift in customer responsiveness.
3
Seppala, T. (2015, December 28). Samsung has an all-in-one health chip for wearables. Retrieved from http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/28/samsung-bioprocessor/
4
Advertising Age. (2015, December 21). The Creativity 50 2015: The Most Creative People of the Year.
Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 20167
A tighter link with journey-based storytelling will give newly empowered people-based marketers a
considerable edge over those who try to build brands with awareness media alone. Taking advantage of
automation platforms can deliver interventions across the entire customer journey, and brand storytellers need a
revamped toolset—one that guides customers along a structured decision-making journey. For forward-leaning
customer segments, a simple awareness message can be enough to prompt action. But for the majority of fence-
sitters, a more immersive, long-form experience will be required to address challenging barriers.
Driving change
A tighter focus on behavioral goals and tailored interventions before and after each journey milestone, matched
against baselines and control assumptions, will lead to better outcomes for both marketers and consumers. The
role of the brand story is not only to introduce and set expectations about the product or service, but also to
provide follow-up support to ensure the right outcomes are achieved. Longitudinal survey data will also help
improve the intervention with the ability to document the patient satisfaction with key steps of the service.
Gathering preferences and engagement data before and after the
healthcare intervention will be key to closing the loop on qualitative
and quantitative insights. Whether it’s completing a hospital
procedure or starting a potentially costly prescription medication,
connected interventions that are integrated into a longitudinal brand
story are essential to guide a desired behavior.5
While these tactics
will be voluntary to the brand, it is a matter of time before they are
made mandatory by managed care organizations (MCOs) in their
pursuit of optimal therapeutic impact.
Emotional impact
Emotional engagement should also be contextualized within
the discussion of data and automation. Emotion lies at the heart
of every brand story. Emotion drives memorability, appeal,
and motivation. It must be enhanced, not sidelined, during the
automation ramp up. Making sure your content is emotionally
charged will deliver higher responses than a reliance on brute
force through volume of interventions alone. Brands must be
evaluated on the softer scores alongside the hard engagement and
financial metrics.
MOTIVATE WITH BRAND
STORYTELLING2
5
Porter, M. E., & Lee, T. H. (2013, October). The Radical Innovation Playbook, The Strategy That Will Fix Healthcare. Harvard Business Review, (10), 50-70.
“Our innate desire to immerse
ourselves in stories is not
some frivolous impulse­—
it’s a fundamental adaptive
response.”
Source: Strategy + Business 2015
Healthcare is about caring
for people and people
feeling cared for—when
measuring healthcare
outcomes, high customer
motivation scores should
include a positive mental
attitude as a success factor.
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How can a company restructure emotional engagement in this era of content overload?
Traditionally, when peeling back the layers of advertising distraction, marketers have learned to tap into
the collective set of instincts grounded in the human body—our nervous system and brain as demonstrated
in neuromarketing studies of the past several decades. Common behavioral triggers can also be activated
via archetypes, which reflect how our inherited biology can be converted into personality types that play
an important role in shaping the values and culture that drive our society. An example is the “Like A Girl”
campaign by feminine products brand Always, which created a powerful vignette tackling an American cultural
belief that inhibits young women from realizing their true potential.6
Tackling and disrupting these types of
bad-for-society beliefs makes for powerful brand stories, while making our communities feel empowered.
It’s not hard to see why stories are so powerful. While advertising prompts us to put our guard up, stories, like
the Always video or the “Dove Campaign for Real Beauty” from the mid 2000s, encourage us to identify with
the characters they portray, induce the willing suspension of disbelief, and leave the audience predisposed to
accept a new premise. Brand stories help us leave our day-to-day existence and move further along a belief
curve.
Effective health brand storytelling should be supported and amplified by earned social media, as evidenced by
“Becoming Christopher,” a YouTube video that received thousands of views featuring a young man stepping
into adulthood with cystic fibrosis.7
Despite these early successes at tackling larger health beliefs, social media
has gotten off to a moderately slow start in healthcare, especially among pharmaceutical manufacturers, given
the risk-reward profile. Social storytelling is beginning to emerge as a key part of the healthcare marketer
toolkit to humanize initial efforts to build distinct healthcare brands that help activate patients rather than leave
them as passive content recipients. Brands that seek greater sharing online must invite their customers to help
shape the brand story and further its ability to accomplish customer reach objectives. Social media, and its
implications for online reputation management (ORM), has already greatly impacted how healthcare providers
engage with patients online.8
MOTIVATE WITH BRAND
STORYTELLING (CONT.)
2
6
Always. (2014, June 26). Always #LikeAGirl. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs
7
getmovingtv. (2009, May 29). Becoming Christopher 1. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN9be2QGbKg
8
Cisco, P. (2015, August 18) Top 5 Marketing Trends for Healthcare in 2016. Marketing Essentials.
Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 20169
Patients and customers want to see the human soul in companies
Healthcare marketers have a natural advantage over other industries—we can easily look “beyond the pill” to
our clinical studies or to wellness and lifestyle topics to generate relevant stories. We all need to go further as
we reimagine our healthcare organizations in 2016. Reenergizing principle-centered leadership is one clear way
to establish a unique content identity, a distinctive role in society, and help cut through the huge advertising
clutter from healthcare companies, all generically promising essentially the same thing: better care.
Creating a much more organic, human, and soulful organization can form a unique identity. Few get this
better than Oprah Winfrey who in a given day is a media CEO, a TV producer, a self-help guru, a publisher, a
philanthropist, and an actress. Oprah’s whole brand is built around making the world a better place, which in
turn, becomes an extension of a successful commercial model.9
Authenticity at the heart of a good brand story can reflect the genuine identity of the company. Companies that
can’t decide quite who they are won’t be able to deliver the clear guideposts to the customer making the tough
moral choices that drive treatment selection, provider preferences, and the willingness to pay for treatments.
MOTIVATE WITH BRAND
STORYTELLING (CONT.)
2
ACTION ITEM:
Increase speed to conversion by layering in more trusted brand storytelling before
and after each health intervention.
9
FastCompany. (2015, November). The Secrets of the Most Productive People, How Oprah Balances Belief and Business.
More than 40% of consumers say that information found via social
media affects the way they deal with their health. (Source: Mediabistro)
90% of people that responded to the survey from 18 to 24 years of
age said they would trust medical information shared by others on
their social media networks. (Source: Search Engine Watch)
41% of people said social media would affect their choice of a
specific doctor, hospital, or medical facility.
(Source: Demi & Cooper Advertising and DC Interactive Group)
Parents are more likely to seek medical answers online; 22% use
Facebook and 20% use YouTube. Of non-parents, 14% use Facebook
and 12% use YouTube to search for healthcare-related topics.
(Source: Mashable)
40% of people polled said information found on social media affects
how someone coped with a chronic condition, their view of diet and
exercise, and their selection of a physician.
(Source: HealthCare Finance News)
Social Media increases trust and reduces the time to making a treatment decision
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Driving healthcare outcomes means testing into more effective behavior change models. Personalization
is giving us the opportunity to reimagine classic models by leveraging individual data capture that can
inform a more tailored experience. Traditional behavioral models were designed for large patient segments,
but now we need smarter models that can be activated at the individual level—people-based marketing helps
us do that. Over the past several decades, the healthcare community at large generated thousands of condition-
specific behavioral studies that should be used to inform future behavior change programs. These models can
be strengthened with streaming data from various datasets and newly embedded sensors to further enhance the
value of these foundational studies.
As internet-connected devices such
as sensors and ingestibles are used,
they record internal vital signs, and
in turn, will create new streams of
personal data, all of which can be
used to create predictive models and
better understand what’s driving
behavior. Building from the bottom
up can bring greater understanding
at the individual level and ultimately
show aggregate scalable impact at
the population level. As marketers,
we seek to overcome personal
barriers in individuals—now is the
time to deliver tailored intervention
in a more productive way supported
by evolving behavioral models.
Enter
Exit and Re-enter
at Any Stage
The Stages
of Change
Model
Maintenanc
e
Precontemplation
Contemplation
Relapse
Action
Determ
ination
Figure 3. Behavioral change model stages
REIMAGINE BEHAVIOR CHANGE3
Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 201611
The traditional healthcare behavior change models, like the trans-theoretical model and the health models of
change, should be kept alive and refined through vibrant test and learn plans so marketers can strengthen the
link between brand storytelling and the trust drivers that we know drive action.
While there is no central repository aggregating all of this behavioral expertise and knowledge, there are
data streams available that can be aggregated to create impactful programs. These efforts are enhanced by
proprietary big data sets that can be mined to create unique behavior change programs that enable competitive
advantage for specific brands.
For example, we know helping patients access healthcare communities and tap trusted health publishers like
Healthgrades brings the forward-leaning patient closer to a decision point. Re-architected journeys then sit on
top of the refined behavioral models and will become more predictive over time. Thus the influence models,
interpreted at the ecosystem level surrounding an individual, can be also identified through self-report surveys
and other data sources to tap the optimal set of trust buttons and help move an individual patient forward.
REIMAGINE BEHAVIOR CHANGE (CONT.)3
ACTION ITEM:
Test into the most relevant behavior change models for your brand and category, then
reimagine them to address what we can now do with personalization technology.
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We will see further convergence between the digital/virtual and the real world that will require marketers
to envision a new generation of immersive experiences. Driving patient behavior change is challenging enough,
but now a new generation of augmented reality and virtual reality can go even further in reinventing ways to
tackle health challenges. Virtual reality is a creation of a virtual world that
users can interact with, designed so that users would find it difficult to tell
the difference between what is real and what is not. Augmented reality (AR)
is the blending of virtual reality and real life. Developers can create images
within applications that blend in with contents in the real world. With AR,
users are able to interact with virtual content in the real world, and are able to
distinguish between the two.10
For now, just consider collapsing the physical and temporal distance between healthcare providers and healthcare
consumers; for example, the living room will emerge as the new waiting room in 2016, according to Toby
Cosgrove, CEO of Cleveland Clinic.11
The power of immersive media—including both live two-way dialogue and
supportive content marketing (advertising that is seen as valuable by the consumer)—will increasingly simulate
the qualities of real experience.12
Healthcare providers will increasingly identify activities that can happen outside
of the clinic to reduce time and operating costs. Journey mapping, with an eye toward connective experience
design across advertising and augmented care delivery, will further create more experiential value chains that will
be more efficient and effective for both the consumer and the provider.
There and back again
There is a strong growth projection for virtual reality providers like Oculus (purchased by Facebook in 2014).
We will see the initial seeds for how Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality can be used on social platforms and
begin to ideate how to provide physician and patient education by simulating a specific healthcare experience.
While there will be thousands of innovative ideas, consider starting with something simple like virtual training
for physicians covering medical procedures.13
Going forward, the alignment of real world plus virtual world content and experience has to be part of the
behavioral health design. Marketers should attempt to accomplish the enchanted state of this manufactured
reality, create the immersion that allows patients to see beyond their personal barriers, then close the loop to
make sure healthcare decisions are improved in the real world.
PLAN FOR NEXT GEN IMMERSION4
10
McKalin, V. (2014, April 6). Augmented Reality vs. Virtual Reality: What are the differences and similarities? Retrieved from http://www.techtimes.com/articles/5078/20140406/
augmented-reality-vs-virtual-reality-what-are-the-differences-and-similarities.htm
11
The Wall Street Journal. (2015, December). The Future of Everything. (1), 56.
12
Rose, F. (Spring 2015). The Power of Immersive Media. Strategy + Business, (Issue 78)
13
Rouas, J. (2015, January 5) Fascinating World of Augmented Reality. Retrieved from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fascinating-world-augmented-reality-jari-rouas?trk=prof-post
ACTION ITEM:
Given heavily crowded markets, a more immersive experience on the fast scaling
platforms will provide a compelling reason to buy.
Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 201613
Expect more scientific and digital discoveries that aspire to change the world and disrupt previously
stable revenue streams. Healthcare entrepreneurs will continue to assail the once safe ivory towers within
our healthcare system. The investors and boards of directors who are putting their money on the line will
eagerly look for game changers that will accelerate or even seek to obliterate their business model. Being
aware of these disruptors early can prepare marketers to adapt their customer listening, competitive intelligence
audits, and projected revenue schedules while they quickly maneuver through increasingly fast-changing
healthcare marketplaces.
Depending on your position in the industry, these
areas of disruption might make you excited or
seriously nervous:14
●● Nanotechnology
●● Genetically Modified Organisms
●● Mendelian Genetics
●● Chromosome Carry Genes
●● Organ Transplants
●● Regenerative Medicine
●● Genome Sequencing
●● Genetic Engineering
●● Transplantation of Engineered Tissue
Many of these areas are well on their way through research and development and on to commercialization.
Gene therapy, transplantation of engineered tissue, and breakthroughs like nanomedicine that aspire to
manipulate matter at the cellular level are now being tested in humans. For example, Maryland-based
CytImmune is a research firm designing nanotechnology, such as Aurimune (See figure 4), to overcome
challenging problems in cancer treatment by operating at the cellular level. These new, inspired pipelines may
significantly change the business models of the traditional pharmaceutical industry and the shape of healthcare
organizations aligned around traditional work streams and service models.
5 DISRUPT WITH UNIQUE
PARTNERSHIPS
14
National Geographic. (2014, October). 100 Scientific Discoveries That Changed the World.
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All these innovation areas are closer to becoming a reality. In the next ten years, these innovation areas will
shift the health paradigm away from caring for the sick to eradicating entire diseases and symptoms of aging.
In the future, we will be able to predict and modify illnesses before they become a burden. This ability to
permanently alter the course of a condition will bring a new host of marketing, commercialization, and privacy
challenges with it. All healthcare actors must think about smarter partnerships that can generate sustainable
business models and quantum leaps in patient value, or risk being left behind.
Breaking Down
the Fortress
Tumor-targeted
Trojan Horse
Enabling
Cancer Cures
Figure 4. Aurimune is a nanotherapy that targets cancer at the cellular level
5 DISRUPT WITH UNIQUE
PARTNERSHIPS (CONT.)
ACTION ITEM:
New innovations and partnerships in healthcare will dramatically change
the landscape; seek new partners to drive interest and evolve beyond core
business models.
Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 201615
In 2016, success in people-based marketing will be increasingly defined by faster cycles of strategic
planning and more immersive brand storytelling, both of which will accelerate changes in health
behaviors. US-based healthcare brands already spinning up next-gen marketing automation must now prioritize
key strategies to optimize customer relationships and drive maximum impact. The approaches in this paper are
beacons that show the path to a level of customer relevance and business impact that’s well beyond expectations
of previous years.
After all, according to Forrester Research, customer relationships are now the only remaining source of
competitive advantage.15
Our job, and the goal of this report, is to help you spot the right opportunities and get
the biggest revenue impact for your organization.
The ideas covered ladder up to a new marker of organizational maturity—namely, speed. As a result, we’re
proposing a new measurement paradigm: Return on Velocity (ROV), a new way to think about organizational
efficiency to support driving customers through complex buying processes at a much faster rate. We think
healthcare marketers that can harness fast-moving trends will accelerate commercial value and separate
themselves from the rest of the pack. Leaders, fast followers, and laggards are going to face dozens of
strategic options, but they should be evaluated for speed to impact and accelerated performance that
can reduce the time and expense of driving desired health behaviors.
CONCLUSION: A NEW PARADIGM TO
IMPROVE ORGANIZATIONAL VELOCITY
Return on Velocity (ROV) is a new way to think about
organizational efficiency to facilitate customers through
the buying processes at a much faster rate.
15
Forrester Research, Inc. Forrester Research, Inc. (2016, January 4). The Forrester Wave™: Customer Loyalty Solutions For Midsize Organizations, Q1 2016: The
Seven Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up.
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Faster moving organizations that can readily onboard transformation will be fit for survival moving forward.
Being fully tuned into customer relationships (call it speed-to-insight) is the single most important source of
competitive advantage.
The time when health marketers could dictate what people think and do is long past—if it ever existed at all.
Brands have to invite people into their story with the goal of making that effort worthwhile. The onboarding
of new personalization and automation capabilities is a key part of building more nimble and adaptive
organizations. Our customers have adopted a 24/7 content cycle, and market leaders will get up to speed to
maximize rewards in an increasingly connected and fast-moving healthcare ecosystem.
Our Return on Velocity diagnostic:
Are you benchmarking the time customers
are taking to complete a customer journey?
Are you benchmarking and collapsing
time between awareness to action, and
conversion?
Does your marketing plan address individual
barriers to accelerate behavior change?
Are you leveraging addressable media to
improve right message, right time, right
place?
Can you streamline or even cut steps in the
buying process?
Are test and learn plans capturing velocity
metrics to improve customer speed through
the buying process?
Are you benchmarking and improving
throughput of internal customer service
processes?
Do you engage medical-legal review
(MLR) early and often to avoid snags?
Are your media plans bogged down by
wasted impressions and over-investment at
specific touchpoints?
Is your MLR process benchmarked and
monitored for efficiencies and speed?
Yes No
CONCLUSION: A NEW PARADIGM TO
IMPROVE ORGANIZATIONAL VELOCITY (CONT.)
Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 201617
A Performance Marketing Agency
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  • 1. Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 20161 A GUIDE TO IMPROVING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AND HEALTH OUTCOMES Thought Leadership Series FIVE PEOPLE-BASED MARKETING STRATEGIES
  • 2. CROOM LAWRENCE & DEB FUREY 1.877.9MERKLE | MERKLEINC.COM | © 2016 MERKLE INC. 2 Introduction: People-Based Marketing Comes of Age in Healthcare...................................................................... 4 1) Accelerate Your Planning Cycles ........................................................................................................................ 5 2) Motivate with Brand Storytelling........................................................................................................................ 7 3) Reimagine Behavior Change ............................................................................................................................ 10 4) Plan for Next Gen Immersion............................................................................................................................ 12 5) Disrupt with Unique Partnerships..................................................................................................................... 13 Conclusion: A New Paradigm to Improve Organizational Velocity...................................................................... 15 TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • 3. Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 20163 REAL-TIME AUTOMATION WILL INCREASE THE RATE AT WHICH WE CAN CHANGE CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR, IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES, AND DRIVE BUSINESS IMPACT.
  • 4. CROOM LAWRENCE & DEB FUREY 1.877.9MERKLE | MERKLEINC.COM | © 2016 MERKLE INC. 4 In 2016, healthcare marketers will plan, personalize, and execute marketing cycles faster than ever before. With newly onboarded automation capabilities, omni-channel teams will convert insights into performance and harness the value of their most important assets: their customer relationships. Until recently, most healthcare companies have found themselves at levels 2 and 3 in the organizational maturity map because of technology limitations and manual marketing processes (see Figure 1). Levels 4 and 5 are now within reach to deliver personalized event streams at scale with real-time decisioning optimized for individual relevance. Healthcare marketers must now turn to organizational velocity—pushing how quickly they can move beyond single-tactic views and begin to connect journeys across touchpoints, across devices, from online to offline, and from digital to live customer service. Healthcare marketers must do all of this in ways that have never been done before in healthcare. The breakthrough for healthcare marketers is the ability to pinpoint target audiences and deliver experiences specific to individuals across a structured brand journey. Big and small health brands alike will shift dollars to addressable media—which increases effectiveness and measurability—especially in capabilities such as addressable search, programmatic display, and social. The good news for healthcare marketers is that many marketing innovations are already in use at scale—which may just exist in other consumer categories and can be easily ported over if they have a favorable regulatory profile.1 INTRODUCTION: PEOPLE-BASED MARKETING COMES OF AGE IN HEALTHCARE Customer Focused Enterprise engagement High value Low value Campaign Focused Business unit/ media engagement Individual event streams are automated and deployed/optimized in real time Connected experiences based on known and anonymous identity delivered across all devices, platforms Integrated campaigns are manually integrated, measured, and adjusted at speed of human touch Single campaign, simple data, minimal offer and customer customization Centralized database infrastructure; data is consolidated into one hub for centralized reporting and insights Level 5 Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 Moving from level 3 to level 4 is hard Figure 1: Organizational maturity map 1The Wall Street Journal. (2015, December). The Future of Everything.
  • 5. Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 20165 ACCELERATE YOUR PLANNING CYCLES1 Moving faster in 2016 means marketers will conduct more frequent planning cycles based on accelerated intelligence and in-market trigger events. Whether it’s a competitive launch, a newly predicted dip in revenue, or defection of a key target, marketers will rely on more frequent, faster planning cycles, which will be instrumental in navigating the disruptive change. Planning tools are being built to organize smarter, bigger data that will be structured to support specific planning steps—for example, segmentation, copy testing, and more aggressive in-market test-and-learn plans. Data development is pivotal in planning Healthcare systems are speeding up. Just as hospitals are enabling practitioners and patients to monitor more interactions, the volume of healthcare data is increasing. The Internet of Things is putting gas on the fire as the deluge of portable and wearable devices that produce health and engagement data streams will bring large volumes of unstructured data that risk bogging down the overall marketing ecosystem. Going forward, all marketers must be connected to both strategic planners and well-trained data scientists who can effectively link the data back to discrete marketing strategy, plan tools, and steps; distill learnings; and provide seasoned guidance. Customer relationship experts who can master both the marketing and the clinical health data sides are well-suited to structure not only the customer experience, but also the data fields and segmentation algorithms required to deliver the individual care experience. Another interesting application we expect to see this year is doctors being proactive in making appointments with specific patients—doctors will need to feed their businesses with streaming addressable customer data sets to help identify high-value, high-risk prospects. That data can trigger appointment requests and proactive services based on individual needs. Doctors of the future will further test real-time alerts and reminders preempting, and thus, potentially preventing larger, more invasive medical interventions.2 Media Optimization, Targeting, Messaging, Offers, Value Proposition Engage with Broadcast, Direct, Online, Outdoor, and Social Media Marketing Programs Campaign Reporting Analysis, Research Results and Analysis, Database Management, Marketing Impact Scorecards, Segmentations and Brand Role Campaign Responses, Opt-ins, Registrations, Research Participation, User-generated Content (Data Appends) Learn, Do, Enjoy, Share, Heal Test and Learn Plans, Market Game Plans, Segment Game Plans, Message and Engagement Frameworks, Master and Segment Briefs Faster Cycles of Strategic Planning Figure 2. Accelerated strategic planning and response cycle 2 The Wall Street Journal. (2015, December). The Future of Everything.
  • 6. CROOM LAWRENCE & DEB FUREY 1.877.9MERKLE | MERKLEINC.COM | © 2016 MERKLE INC. 6 Marketers are quickly building relationships with wearable manufacturers as they bring new datasets online to better communicate to patients the value of embedding more advanced sensors. New chip sets, like the LG SmartThinQ Sensor, as seen at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016, will do more to connect devices and appliances at home and in healthcare settings. Further, the Samsung Bio-Processor, now in mass production, has even more exciting potential in monitoring health, since it’s packed with more sensor units to stream information like bioelectrical impedance analysis. Others focus on volumetric measurements of organs, an electrocardiogram, and skin temperature, among other things.3 Artificial intelligence will continue to emerge in healthcare Look at the momentum in voice recognition software at Google, Amazon, and Apple. Voice recognition is the gateway to artificial intelligence as forecasted in Ray Kurzweil’s “How to Create a Mind.” Without a doubt, companies that want to build competitive advantage must take initial steps to automate marketing processes and connect internal client-side platforms with third-party platforms. With IBM’s Watson winning a “Top 50 Creative Person” in Ad Age December 2015, expect the artificial intelligence theme to advance with new, exciting applications in healthcare that humanize and individualize care at greater scale.4 Beginning with breakthroughs in voice recognition software the past few years—not only with Apple’s Siri, but also now with Amazon’s Echo that connects voice, e-shopping, and content services—in 2016, we’ll be looking at how these tools can help define new marketing innovations and services that create more valuable customer relationships. Benchmarking helps drive strategic investments Finally, all this data outpouring has to result in better benchmarking data to structure investments, drive continuous improvement, and help embed customer needs at the center of the organization. With more effective people-based marketing platforms, this influx in data can be harnessed, and marketers can bring along the right integrated teams to normalize marketing life in a more real-time setting. ACCELERATE YOUR PLANNING CYCLES (CONT.) 1 ACTION ITEM: Trigger a planning cycle based on an in-market event, disruptive competitive activity, or shift in customer responsiveness. 3 Seppala, T. (2015, December 28). Samsung has an all-in-one health chip for wearables. Retrieved from http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/28/samsung-bioprocessor/ 4 Advertising Age. (2015, December 21). The Creativity 50 2015: The Most Creative People of the Year.
  • 7. Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 20167 A tighter link with journey-based storytelling will give newly empowered people-based marketers a considerable edge over those who try to build brands with awareness media alone. Taking advantage of automation platforms can deliver interventions across the entire customer journey, and brand storytellers need a revamped toolset—one that guides customers along a structured decision-making journey. For forward-leaning customer segments, a simple awareness message can be enough to prompt action. But for the majority of fence- sitters, a more immersive, long-form experience will be required to address challenging barriers. Driving change A tighter focus on behavioral goals and tailored interventions before and after each journey milestone, matched against baselines and control assumptions, will lead to better outcomes for both marketers and consumers. The role of the brand story is not only to introduce and set expectations about the product or service, but also to provide follow-up support to ensure the right outcomes are achieved. Longitudinal survey data will also help improve the intervention with the ability to document the patient satisfaction with key steps of the service. Gathering preferences and engagement data before and after the healthcare intervention will be key to closing the loop on qualitative and quantitative insights. Whether it’s completing a hospital procedure or starting a potentially costly prescription medication, connected interventions that are integrated into a longitudinal brand story are essential to guide a desired behavior.5 While these tactics will be voluntary to the brand, it is a matter of time before they are made mandatory by managed care organizations (MCOs) in their pursuit of optimal therapeutic impact. Emotional impact Emotional engagement should also be contextualized within the discussion of data and automation. Emotion lies at the heart of every brand story. Emotion drives memorability, appeal, and motivation. It must be enhanced, not sidelined, during the automation ramp up. Making sure your content is emotionally charged will deliver higher responses than a reliance on brute force through volume of interventions alone. Brands must be evaluated on the softer scores alongside the hard engagement and financial metrics. MOTIVATE WITH BRAND STORYTELLING2 5 Porter, M. E., & Lee, T. H. (2013, October). The Radical Innovation Playbook, The Strategy That Will Fix Healthcare. Harvard Business Review, (10), 50-70. “Our innate desire to immerse ourselves in stories is not some frivolous impulse­— it’s a fundamental adaptive response.” Source: Strategy + Business 2015 Healthcare is about caring for people and people feeling cared for—when measuring healthcare outcomes, high customer motivation scores should include a positive mental attitude as a success factor.
  • 8. CROOM LAWRENCE & DEB FUREY 1.877.9MERKLE | MERKLEINC.COM | © 2016 MERKLE INC. 8 How can a company restructure emotional engagement in this era of content overload? Traditionally, when peeling back the layers of advertising distraction, marketers have learned to tap into the collective set of instincts grounded in the human body—our nervous system and brain as demonstrated in neuromarketing studies of the past several decades. Common behavioral triggers can also be activated via archetypes, which reflect how our inherited biology can be converted into personality types that play an important role in shaping the values and culture that drive our society. An example is the “Like A Girl” campaign by feminine products brand Always, which created a powerful vignette tackling an American cultural belief that inhibits young women from realizing their true potential.6 Tackling and disrupting these types of bad-for-society beliefs makes for powerful brand stories, while making our communities feel empowered. It’s not hard to see why stories are so powerful. While advertising prompts us to put our guard up, stories, like the Always video or the “Dove Campaign for Real Beauty” from the mid 2000s, encourage us to identify with the characters they portray, induce the willing suspension of disbelief, and leave the audience predisposed to accept a new premise. Brand stories help us leave our day-to-day existence and move further along a belief curve. Effective health brand storytelling should be supported and amplified by earned social media, as evidenced by “Becoming Christopher,” a YouTube video that received thousands of views featuring a young man stepping into adulthood with cystic fibrosis.7 Despite these early successes at tackling larger health beliefs, social media has gotten off to a moderately slow start in healthcare, especially among pharmaceutical manufacturers, given the risk-reward profile. Social storytelling is beginning to emerge as a key part of the healthcare marketer toolkit to humanize initial efforts to build distinct healthcare brands that help activate patients rather than leave them as passive content recipients. Brands that seek greater sharing online must invite their customers to help shape the brand story and further its ability to accomplish customer reach objectives. Social media, and its implications for online reputation management (ORM), has already greatly impacted how healthcare providers engage with patients online.8 MOTIVATE WITH BRAND STORYTELLING (CONT.) 2 6 Always. (2014, June 26). Always #LikeAGirl. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs 7 getmovingtv. (2009, May 29). Becoming Christopher 1. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN9be2QGbKg 8 Cisco, P. (2015, August 18) Top 5 Marketing Trends for Healthcare in 2016. Marketing Essentials.
  • 9. Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 20169 Patients and customers want to see the human soul in companies Healthcare marketers have a natural advantage over other industries—we can easily look “beyond the pill” to our clinical studies or to wellness and lifestyle topics to generate relevant stories. We all need to go further as we reimagine our healthcare organizations in 2016. Reenergizing principle-centered leadership is one clear way to establish a unique content identity, a distinctive role in society, and help cut through the huge advertising clutter from healthcare companies, all generically promising essentially the same thing: better care. Creating a much more organic, human, and soulful organization can form a unique identity. Few get this better than Oprah Winfrey who in a given day is a media CEO, a TV producer, a self-help guru, a publisher, a philanthropist, and an actress. Oprah’s whole brand is built around making the world a better place, which in turn, becomes an extension of a successful commercial model.9 Authenticity at the heart of a good brand story can reflect the genuine identity of the company. Companies that can’t decide quite who they are won’t be able to deliver the clear guideposts to the customer making the tough moral choices that drive treatment selection, provider preferences, and the willingness to pay for treatments. MOTIVATE WITH BRAND STORYTELLING (CONT.) 2 ACTION ITEM: Increase speed to conversion by layering in more trusted brand storytelling before and after each health intervention. 9 FastCompany. (2015, November). The Secrets of the Most Productive People, How Oprah Balances Belief and Business. More than 40% of consumers say that information found via social media affects the way they deal with their health. (Source: Mediabistro) 90% of people that responded to the survey from 18 to 24 years of age said they would trust medical information shared by others on their social media networks. (Source: Search Engine Watch) 41% of people said social media would affect their choice of a specific doctor, hospital, or medical facility. (Source: Demi & Cooper Advertising and DC Interactive Group) Parents are more likely to seek medical answers online; 22% use Facebook and 20% use YouTube. Of non-parents, 14% use Facebook and 12% use YouTube to search for healthcare-related topics. (Source: Mashable) 40% of people polled said information found on social media affects how someone coped with a chronic condition, their view of diet and exercise, and their selection of a physician. (Source: HealthCare Finance News) Social Media increases trust and reduces the time to making a treatment decision
  • 10. CROOM LAWRENCE & DEB FUREY 1.877.9MERKLE | MERKLEINC.COM | © 2016 MERKLE INC. 10 Driving healthcare outcomes means testing into more effective behavior change models. Personalization is giving us the opportunity to reimagine classic models by leveraging individual data capture that can inform a more tailored experience. Traditional behavioral models were designed for large patient segments, but now we need smarter models that can be activated at the individual level—people-based marketing helps us do that. Over the past several decades, the healthcare community at large generated thousands of condition- specific behavioral studies that should be used to inform future behavior change programs. These models can be strengthened with streaming data from various datasets and newly embedded sensors to further enhance the value of these foundational studies. As internet-connected devices such as sensors and ingestibles are used, they record internal vital signs, and in turn, will create new streams of personal data, all of which can be used to create predictive models and better understand what’s driving behavior. Building from the bottom up can bring greater understanding at the individual level and ultimately show aggregate scalable impact at the population level. As marketers, we seek to overcome personal barriers in individuals—now is the time to deliver tailored intervention in a more productive way supported by evolving behavioral models. Enter Exit and Re-enter at Any Stage The Stages of Change Model Maintenanc e Precontemplation Contemplation Relapse Action Determ ination Figure 3. Behavioral change model stages REIMAGINE BEHAVIOR CHANGE3
  • 11. Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 201611 The traditional healthcare behavior change models, like the trans-theoretical model and the health models of change, should be kept alive and refined through vibrant test and learn plans so marketers can strengthen the link between brand storytelling and the trust drivers that we know drive action. While there is no central repository aggregating all of this behavioral expertise and knowledge, there are data streams available that can be aggregated to create impactful programs. These efforts are enhanced by proprietary big data sets that can be mined to create unique behavior change programs that enable competitive advantage for specific brands. For example, we know helping patients access healthcare communities and tap trusted health publishers like Healthgrades brings the forward-leaning patient closer to a decision point. Re-architected journeys then sit on top of the refined behavioral models and will become more predictive over time. Thus the influence models, interpreted at the ecosystem level surrounding an individual, can be also identified through self-report surveys and other data sources to tap the optimal set of trust buttons and help move an individual patient forward. REIMAGINE BEHAVIOR CHANGE (CONT.)3 ACTION ITEM: Test into the most relevant behavior change models for your brand and category, then reimagine them to address what we can now do with personalization technology.
  • 12. CROOM LAWRENCE & DEB FUREY 1.877.9MERKLE | MERKLEINC.COM | © 2016 MERKLE INC. 12 We will see further convergence between the digital/virtual and the real world that will require marketers to envision a new generation of immersive experiences. Driving patient behavior change is challenging enough, but now a new generation of augmented reality and virtual reality can go even further in reinventing ways to tackle health challenges. Virtual reality is a creation of a virtual world that users can interact with, designed so that users would find it difficult to tell the difference between what is real and what is not. Augmented reality (AR) is the blending of virtual reality and real life. Developers can create images within applications that blend in with contents in the real world. With AR, users are able to interact with virtual content in the real world, and are able to distinguish between the two.10 For now, just consider collapsing the physical and temporal distance between healthcare providers and healthcare consumers; for example, the living room will emerge as the new waiting room in 2016, according to Toby Cosgrove, CEO of Cleveland Clinic.11 The power of immersive media—including both live two-way dialogue and supportive content marketing (advertising that is seen as valuable by the consumer)—will increasingly simulate the qualities of real experience.12 Healthcare providers will increasingly identify activities that can happen outside of the clinic to reduce time and operating costs. Journey mapping, with an eye toward connective experience design across advertising and augmented care delivery, will further create more experiential value chains that will be more efficient and effective for both the consumer and the provider. There and back again There is a strong growth projection for virtual reality providers like Oculus (purchased by Facebook in 2014). We will see the initial seeds for how Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality can be used on social platforms and begin to ideate how to provide physician and patient education by simulating a specific healthcare experience. While there will be thousands of innovative ideas, consider starting with something simple like virtual training for physicians covering medical procedures.13 Going forward, the alignment of real world plus virtual world content and experience has to be part of the behavioral health design. Marketers should attempt to accomplish the enchanted state of this manufactured reality, create the immersion that allows patients to see beyond their personal barriers, then close the loop to make sure healthcare decisions are improved in the real world. PLAN FOR NEXT GEN IMMERSION4 10 McKalin, V. (2014, April 6). Augmented Reality vs. Virtual Reality: What are the differences and similarities? Retrieved from http://www.techtimes.com/articles/5078/20140406/ augmented-reality-vs-virtual-reality-what-are-the-differences-and-similarities.htm 11 The Wall Street Journal. (2015, December). The Future of Everything. (1), 56. 12 Rose, F. (Spring 2015). The Power of Immersive Media. Strategy + Business, (Issue 78) 13 Rouas, J. (2015, January 5) Fascinating World of Augmented Reality. Retrieved from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fascinating-world-augmented-reality-jari-rouas?trk=prof-post ACTION ITEM: Given heavily crowded markets, a more immersive experience on the fast scaling platforms will provide a compelling reason to buy.
  • 13. Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 201613 Expect more scientific and digital discoveries that aspire to change the world and disrupt previously stable revenue streams. Healthcare entrepreneurs will continue to assail the once safe ivory towers within our healthcare system. The investors and boards of directors who are putting their money on the line will eagerly look for game changers that will accelerate or even seek to obliterate their business model. Being aware of these disruptors early can prepare marketers to adapt their customer listening, competitive intelligence audits, and projected revenue schedules while they quickly maneuver through increasingly fast-changing healthcare marketplaces. Depending on your position in the industry, these areas of disruption might make you excited or seriously nervous:14 ●● Nanotechnology ●● Genetically Modified Organisms ●● Mendelian Genetics ●● Chromosome Carry Genes ●● Organ Transplants ●● Regenerative Medicine ●● Genome Sequencing ●● Genetic Engineering ●● Transplantation of Engineered Tissue Many of these areas are well on their way through research and development and on to commercialization. Gene therapy, transplantation of engineered tissue, and breakthroughs like nanomedicine that aspire to manipulate matter at the cellular level are now being tested in humans. For example, Maryland-based CytImmune is a research firm designing nanotechnology, such as Aurimune (See figure 4), to overcome challenging problems in cancer treatment by operating at the cellular level. These new, inspired pipelines may significantly change the business models of the traditional pharmaceutical industry and the shape of healthcare organizations aligned around traditional work streams and service models. 5 DISRUPT WITH UNIQUE PARTNERSHIPS 14 National Geographic. (2014, October). 100 Scientific Discoveries That Changed the World.
  • 14. CROOM LAWRENCE & DEB FUREY 1.877.9MERKLE | MERKLEINC.COM | © 2016 MERKLE INC. 14 All these innovation areas are closer to becoming a reality. In the next ten years, these innovation areas will shift the health paradigm away from caring for the sick to eradicating entire diseases and symptoms of aging. In the future, we will be able to predict and modify illnesses before they become a burden. This ability to permanently alter the course of a condition will bring a new host of marketing, commercialization, and privacy challenges with it. All healthcare actors must think about smarter partnerships that can generate sustainable business models and quantum leaps in patient value, or risk being left behind. Breaking Down the Fortress Tumor-targeted Trojan Horse Enabling Cancer Cures Figure 4. Aurimune is a nanotherapy that targets cancer at the cellular level 5 DISRUPT WITH UNIQUE PARTNERSHIPS (CONT.) ACTION ITEM: New innovations and partnerships in healthcare will dramatically change the landscape; seek new partners to drive interest and evolve beyond core business models.
  • 15. Five People-Based Marketing Strategies for 201615 In 2016, success in people-based marketing will be increasingly defined by faster cycles of strategic planning and more immersive brand storytelling, both of which will accelerate changes in health behaviors. US-based healthcare brands already spinning up next-gen marketing automation must now prioritize key strategies to optimize customer relationships and drive maximum impact. The approaches in this paper are beacons that show the path to a level of customer relevance and business impact that’s well beyond expectations of previous years. After all, according to Forrester Research, customer relationships are now the only remaining source of competitive advantage.15 Our job, and the goal of this report, is to help you spot the right opportunities and get the biggest revenue impact for your organization. The ideas covered ladder up to a new marker of organizational maturity—namely, speed. As a result, we’re proposing a new measurement paradigm: Return on Velocity (ROV), a new way to think about organizational efficiency to support driving customers through complex buying processes at a much faster rate. We think healthcare marketers that can harness fast-moving trends will accelerate commercial value and separate themselves from the rest of the pack. Leaders, fast followers, and laggards are going to face dozens of strategic options, but they should be evaluated for speed to impact and accelerated performance that can reduce the time and expense of driving desired health behaviors. CONCLUSION: A NEW PARADIGM TO IMPROVE ORGANIZATIONAL VELOCITY Return on Velocity (ROV) is a new way to think about organizational efficiency to facilitate customers through the buying processes at a much faster rate. 15 Forrester Research, Inc. Forrester Research, Inc. (2016, January 4). The Forrester Wave™: Customer Loyalty Solutions For Midsize Organizations, Q1 2016: The Seven Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up.
  • 16. CROOM LAWRENCE & DEB FUREY 1.877.9MERKLE | MERKLEINC.COM | © 2016 MERKLE INC. 16 Faster moving organizations that can readily onboard transformation will be fit for survival moving forward. Being fully tuned into customer relationships (call it speed-to-insight) is the single most important source of competitive advantage. The time when health marketers could dictate what people think and do is long past—if it ever existed at all. Brands have to invite people into their story with the goal of making that effort worthwhile. The onboarding of new personalization and automation capabilities is a key part of building more nimble and adaptive organizations. Our customers have adopted a 24/7 content cycle, and market leaders will get up to speed to maximize rewards in an increasingly connected and fast-moving healthcare ecosystem. Our Return on Velocity diagnostic: Are you benchmarking the time customers are taking to complete a customer journey? Are you benchmarking and collapsing time between awareness to action, and conversion? Does your marketing plan address individual barriers to accelerate behavior change? Are you leveraging addressable media to improve right message, right time, right place? Can you streamline or even cut steps in the buying process? Are test and learn plans capturing velocity metrics to improve customer speed through the buying process? Are you benchmarking and improving throughput of internal customer service processes? Do you engage medical-legal review (MLR) early and often to avoid snags? Are your media plans bogged down by wasted impressions and over-investment at specific touchpoints? Is your MLR process benchmarked and monitored for efficiencies and speed? Yes No CONCLUSION: A NEW PARADIGM TO IMPROVE ORGANIZATIONAL VELOCITY (CONT.)
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