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CMO/CIO Summit: The Rise of Marketing Technology

May 3rd, 2013

Ad Age/BtoB

The May 20 conference in New York City will focus on the rise of marketing technology, how it’s changing organizations, and the impact on CMOs and CIOs. The opening keynote is by Eduardo Conrado, who early this year became senior VP, Marketing and IT at Motorola Solutions. Technology and marketing leaders from Nationwide and InterContinental Hotels Group along with executives from Razorfish and GE will discuss new relationships and a transformation underway.

Attendees will hear how savvy marketers and their partners in the tech suite have:
• Removed internal organizational silos
• Adopted marketing-tech platforms
• Unified the consumer experience across multiple channels
• Harnessed real-time data
• Measured performance and attributed growth to various activities
• Improved effectiveness to drive profit
• Justified increased marketing investment

Put “Marketing Technology: The Rise of CMO-CIO Alignment” on your Internet Week New York calendar. Register now for the afternoon conference sponsored by IDG.

CMO/CIO Summit: The Rise of Marketing Technology

 

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CIOs and CMOs Must Collaborate for Business Results

May 1st, 2013

CIO Press Release

Research Conducted by CIO Highlights CIO/CMO Relationship Gaps and Misconceptions to Be Addressed at CIO/CMO Agenda Event

FRAMINGHAM, MA–(Marketwired – Apr 30, 2013) - CIO‘s 2013 CIO/CMO Partnership survey digs into the CIO/CMO relationship from how these executives view each other, to future IT spending. Overall, the results stress that CIOs and CMOs must work together now to ensure investments for automating marketing align with enterprise architecture for maximum business results. The growing need for collaboration and alignment between the CIO and CMO for technology solution adoption — highlighted in the survey — has sparked the launch of the CIO/CMO Agenda event, produced by CIO in partnership with The CMO Club.

CIO and CMO Perceptions
The majority of CIOs and CMOs (82% and 77% respectively) describe their relationship with the other as excellent/good and 40% of CIOs and 27% of CMOs believe that the relationship will continue to improve over the next year. One reason for this positive view of the relationship is that respondents most often characterized each other as a consultant or strategic player in technology decisions. However, 14% of CMOs see CIOs as a road block and an additional 19% view CIOs as a risk assessor. One-quarter of CIOs view CMOs as a rogue player (view chart). Adoption of cloud solutions without IT’s approval was also highlighted in IDG Enterprise’s CITE research, including employee use of consumer services (41%) and file sharing tools (31%). To benefit the enterprise, CIOs and CMOs believe that collaboration, agility, innovation, customer insight and influence with the CEO are key to developing a closer relationship, which is necessary for results.

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Mixing with marketing: The CIO-CMO partnership

April 24th, 2013

CIO/CMO.COM


Is the CMO pushing the CIO off the IT budget chair? And if so, how can you forge a relationship with sales and marketing that leverages the best results for all concerned?

There’s a new synergy happening in the boardroom, and while some CIOs are left floundering by fast-shifting demands for them to become more agile, customer-responsive and creative, most are finding that they have more in common with their new best mate, the chief marketing officer, than they ever suspected. Laura McLellan, a research analyst at Gartner Inc, lobbed a grenade into the CIO trenches last year when she claimed that by 2017, the average CMO would control more of the IT spend than would the average CIO.

That’s not an empty promise; at its core, marketing is about communicating. And in today’s hyper-connected world, communicating is about technology.

As commerce becomes e-commerce and direct mail becomes direct email, marketing gains a more central role in organisations. But in a space where customer interaction is increasingly digital and where key technologies are increasingly in the hands of the customer, both the CMO and CIO are working outside their comfort zones.

It only makes sense that they buddy up.

“The CMO lives in the world of art, the CIO lives in the world of science, and today’s market is about a blending of art and science,” says Brock Douglas, who heads IBM Australia’s Smarter Commerce division.

“They each need to develop new skills, and they do that by working across the organisation.”

 

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Media companies focus on centralizing audience data, adopting responsive design

April 18th, 2013

Media Business

The technology to-do list for business media companies is lengthy, but many have made centralized audience databases and responsive design websites a priority in 2013. The goal behind these complex initiatives? To get a simplified view of customers and to reach them wherever they may be, whether at the office or on the go.

Faced with a multitude of technology options that promise to make their companies more profitable or efficient, business media executives must choose their priorities. This year, publishers with different sizes, business models and vertical markets are focusing their efforts on two technology-driven projects in particular: building out centralized audience databases and creating websites using responsive design.

Other technology initiatives remain on the to-do list, of course, including those that will unlock the potential of publishers’ content assets, help companies use powerful analytics or make magazines more exciting for readers and more targeted for advertisers.

But single customer-portrait databases and responsive design hold particular appeal for media companies because of their potential to help address some thorny issues.

Brent Pearson, CTO at UBM Tech, explained that his company has a private cloud solution that combines both a physical data warehouse and applications that can bring together data from different databases. Pearson has spent years consolidating and merging a succession of databases, he said, starting with the division formerly known as UBM Electronics, then adding the electronics business acquired from Canon Communications and now incorporating data from the formerly separate TechWeb division. “The end goal, to have all of UBM Tech in a single-user database, is still months away,” he said.

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The Secret to Marketing to the Line-of-Business Executive

March 22nd, 2013

IDC PMS4colorversion 1 The Secret to Marketing to the Line of Business Executive

 

Technology Marketing Blog

Many technology companies have directed their marketing and sales teams to look for business beyond the traditional IT customer.  The secret to marketing to the line-of-business executive is to think like they do. Huh? Is this a secret?

Terriers+1 The Secret to Marketing to the Line of Business Executive

Imagine you have a cute little terrier that you love dearly but who chews up everything in sight.  You fear that you will have to give the dog away if he keeps wrecking things.  As a super-busy person you rarely have time to read articles, however, one of the articles below will stop you in your tracks. Which one?
a) Animals around Our Home
b) Dogs: What do they do every day?
c) Why We Love Terriers
d) How to Stop Terriers from Destroying Your Home

You know that the answer is D.  And if each of the authors had a dog training business, which one are you most likely to contact?

Everyone gravitates toward things that they believe are made “just for me” and ignores things that are made for “someone else”.  It doesn’t matter if you are trying to get the attention of the Chief Marketing Officer, the Vice President of Human Resources, the head of pediatric medicine, or a  terrier owner. The more completely you enter to your customer’s world, the more likely you are to be successful with them.

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Innovation is a Core Competency of a Successful CMO!

March 22nd, 2013

IDC PMS4colorversion 1 Innovation is a Core Competency of a Successful CMO!

Technology Marketing Blog

And this was clearly evident as several CMOs shared their success stories at Mass Tech Leadership Council’s recent 2013 Marketing Summit.  CMO’s and other marketing executives shared valuable insight on how to do “more with less” – the theme of the event. Sure, as marketers we’ve been using that term at least since the Internet bust ~13 years ago; however, we’ve come a long way since then. Not only has marketing slimmed down from a staff perspective, but more importantly, we’ve developed a laser focus on being more relevant to our buyers and internal customers. In addition, we’ve developed a healthy obsession with metrics to demonstrate our value to the organization and better manage our precious budget. But even with this greater maturity, the worst thing we can do at this stage is lessen our drive for innovation.  Here are just a few of the key insights from this summit to help you and your marketing team keep innovation at the forefront of your marketing strategy and tactics:
  • Content is King:  Be a source of value for your buyers, even if your content strays from your product offering

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The 2013 CMO’s Guide To The Social Media Landscape

March 8th, 2013

cmo.com

Our inaugural “CMO’s Guide To The Social Media Landscape,” in 2010, included the top players of the day: Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, YouTube, Digg, StumbleUpon, Yahoo, Reddit, and Delicious. As the social sphere continued to grow and change, we added a couple more for the 2011 edition: YouTube and Tumblr. Then, with things really heating up, we grew the chart by five for 2012, this time adding Google+, SlideShare, Quora, Instagram, and Pinterest.

So what does 2013’s version look like? Ten, 15, 20, or more entries? Not exactly.

http://bit.ly/10gCvVX

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In Tech, Does IT Or Marketing Rule?

February 20th, 2013

NY Times

Doesn’t anyone want to talk with the Chief Information Officer?
PricewaterhouseCoopers, the big consulting firm, on Tuesday published its fifth annual survey of “Digital IQ,” or how well executives understand the capabilities of modern technology. It also tries to identify what it will take to realize those capabilities (often, not surprisingly, with the kind of services a big consulting firm can provide).

The key technologies in this year’s survey included mobile, social media, big data and cloud computing. The goal, the report said, is not just to employ these emerging technologies to automate or streamline processes, but to use them in innovating faster and better, and to create more valuable products and services. Making this happen, the authors said, requires open and effective communication at the highest ranks.
If only.

“We asked business leaders and information technology professors how strong the relationship was between the chief information officers and others at the top of the organization. Then we had them rate it, on a scale of one to five,” said Chris Curran, one of the study’s authors. “We were looking for the characteristics of companies that had a 4.5 or more.”

Of 1,100 companies surveyed, with both information technology and nontechnical executives surveyed in equal measure, just 13 percent had that strong relationship. At least you can’t accuse these respondents of grade inflation.
The greatest top-level disconnect, Mr. Curran said, appears to be between corporate chief information officers and chief marketing officers. “Which is weird, because there is so much energy around big data and analytics,” he said. “It’s creating a conflict.”

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CMO vs. CIO? The future of marketing + IT

February 15th, 2013

Central Desktop

Just a few years ago, asking the question whether the CIO and CMO roles were merging would have been madness. They couldn’t have been further apart. The CMO was a key part of a company’s leadership team, driving performance and changing the course of the organization, while in most cases the CIO didn’t even have a seat at the table.

That’s no longer the case – or, at least, that’s what we’ve been led to believe. If you believe Gartner’s January 2012 report entitled “By 2017 the CMO will Spend More on IT Than the CIO” and IBM’s annual CIO surveys, it would seem these two roles are on a collision course. Is it true?

The role of the CMO is changing. Not necessarily because CMOs want to change, but because market conditions are forcing them to adapt. Today’s marketing is increasingly digital in nature - AdWeek anticipates digital will make up “between 25 percent and 49 percent of…overall media mix” in 2013 – and with the adoption of digital marketing come a new set of skills and priorities. Digital marketing is driven by data, made relevant through personalization, creates communities through social media, and evolves through analytics.

As a result, traditional marketers are being replaced by “Marketing Technologists“ – a hybrid-breed that is part marketer and part IT guru – indeed, IDC predicts that: “Starting in 2013, after the CMO realizes that he/she does not have the skill sets in place for data analytics proficiency, 50% of new marketing hires will have technical backgrounds.” Whether this is accurate remains to be seen, but there’s no doubt that a major shift in the make-up of marketing departments is taking place.

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Study: Search, email remain strong in driving B2B traffic, leads [Infographic]

January 24th, 2013

eMedia Vitals

Two “old school” digital platforms – organic search and email – remain key drivers of traffic and leads, respectively, to B2B sites, according to a new study by Optify.

Organic search drove 41% of traffic to B2B sites in 2012, according to the Optify study, which analyzed more than 27 million visits from various sources to 591 B2B sites in North America. And Google accounted for 90% of that search traffic.

But while organic search is the top traffic driver to B2B sites, it lags in converting visitors to leads. Email remains the lead dog for leads, with a 2.9% conversion rate – double that of organic search (1.45%) and social media (1.22%).

“Organic search is still the strongest traffic driver, but email is the best way to get people to engage,” Optify CMO Doug Wheeler said in a phone interview.

“I really thought, in the age of content marketing, that inbound marketing was the way to go,” Wheeler added. “But the real secret is getting them onto your outbound list. Publishers may not want to dial down email just yet.”

Here’s an infographic from Optify that summarizes the results of the study.

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