Mercer Pacific customer and technology chiefs discuss the key ingredients to building a successful CMO-CIO relationship and why it's got nothing to do with technology or marketing
A little over three years ago, Mercer’s then consumer marketing leader and now customer chief, Cambell Holt, plus financial services operations and technology leader, Terry Godfrey, embarked on a program of work to transform the way the financial services company engages with customers.
Mercer’s Customer Transformation strategy involved three core technology projects. The first was around digital, and involved replacing public websites and digital platforms in order to provide personalised and contextualised experiences that are digitally enabled.
The second was customer management, and saw the organisation invest significant dollars into Salesforce One Platform. The third piece in the puzzle was changing the nature of marketing, and to help, Mercer invested in Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
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In the third and final episode of our 3-part CMO50 video series exploring modern marketing and why it’s become a matter of trust, we’re delighted to be joined by Telstra’s former CMO and now digital services and sales executive, Jeremy Nicholas, and Adobe VP Marketing Asia-Pacific and Japan, Duncan Egan.
Flash back to the classic film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Television-obsessed Mike insists on becoming the first person to be ‘sent by Wonkavision’, dematerialising on one end, pixel by pixel, and materialising in another space. His cinematic dreams are realised thanks to rash decisions as he is shrunken down to fit the digital universe, followed by a trip to the taffy puller to return to normal size.
Why is it there is no shortage of leadership development materials, yet outstanding leadership is so rare? Despite having access to so many leadership principles, tools, systems and processes, why is it so hard to develop and improve as a leader?
As a nation united by sport, brands are beginning to learn money alone won’t talk without aligned values and action. If recent events with major leagues and their players have shown us anything, it’s the next generation of athletes are standing by what they believe in – and they won’t let their values be superseded by money.
