In 2018, Forrester believes 20 per cent of CEOs globally will fail to act on digital transformation and put their firms at risk.
“What will really move the needle?” This is a question that keeps leaders awake at night. And at the intersection of some of their top priorities – finding pockets of growth, redefining the customer experience, and making an emotional impact – lies a latent market: Their diverse customers.
My (amazing) vacation in the Galapagos Islands earlier in the year got me thinking about Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. What does this have to do with the role of today’s CMO, you ask? Plenty.
The global commodity slump has hit Australia in the last few months. Companies that obsess over these developments might be tempted to cut spending on customer experience (CX) programs. Here's why that's a a terrible idea.
What falls under digital customer experience technology? These are the systems that enable the management and delivery of dynamic, targeted, and consistent content, offers, products, and service interactions across digitally enabled consumer touchpoints.
Digital channels, online social activity, and mobile technology give business buyers unprecedented purchasing power. Just look around your next sales or customer meeting, count the number of smartphones and tablets, and see if you disagree.
We’ve probably all heard some story about over the top customer experience in our day. The problem is that these expectation-exceeding, delightful experiences don’t scale.
Today’s marketers find themselves living in a brave new world where customer understanding and the ability to provide value to customers across an exploding number of engagement channels throughout their buying journey is now the name of the game.
CMO’s State of the CMO is an annual industry research initiative aimed at understanding how ...
CMO’s State of the CMO is an annual industry research initiative aimed at understanding how ...
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Online identity is a hot topic as more consumers are waking up to how their data is being used. So what does the marketing industry need to do to avoid a complete loss of public trust, in instances such as the COVID-19 tracing app?
CMOs are looking to ensure investment decisions in marketing initiatives are good value for money. Yet they are frustrated in understanding the value of product placements within this mix for a very simple reason: Product placements are broadly defined and as a result, mean very different things to different people.
University of Adelaide Business School and University of South Australia
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