Category: Collaboration
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 Ending the sales–marketing stalemate: why tech alone is not the answerAttitude, Biz Tech, Change, Collaboration, Lead management, Marketing automation, Sales alignment, TransformationRead more: Ending the sales–marketing stalemate: why tech alone is not the answerI recently had a fascinating discussion with the product manager of a promising account-based marketing (ABM) startup that intends to take targeted B2B marketing to the next level. Their approach?… 
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 “Weekends start at 11am on Fridays”Read more: “Weekends start at 11am on Fridays”How difficult it is for legacy businesses to transform, especially those with storied histories, is illustrated by the travails endured by Volkswagen’s beleaguered CARIAD software division. The YouTube channel Connecting… 
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 Reprioritise Point of Sale and focus on Point of ValueChange, Collaboration, Customer experience, Engagement, Experience, Sales alignment, To be defined, Transformation, TrustRead more: Reprioritise Point of Sale and focus on Point of ValueOrganisations must rebalance away from sales and prioritise value delivery, according to CX guru Bruce Temkin. Temkin says too many organizations overly focus on selling their products and services, but… 
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 The loyalty data value equationRead more: The loyalty data value equationAll types of brands, from tiny consumer products to restaurants to large retailers, are creating a new era of loyalty programs, driven, in part, by a need to collect first-party… 
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 The decisive new NPS metric: earned growth rateAttitude, Biz Tech, Change, Collaboration, CRM integration & utilisation, Customer experience, Engagement, Experience, Marketing ROl, To be definedRead more: The decisive new NPS metric: earned growth rateConfronted with the gaming of his original NPS, the concept’s founder Robert Reichheld is now advocating that it be paired with a new metric: earned growth rate. However, will this… 
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 SOS: high impact predictive tool or overrated and over hyped?Read more: SOS: high impact predictive tool or overrated and over hyped?Is Share of Search marketing’s compelling new metric, which can predict future market share? Supporters of the concept say “yes” and then add several caveats. Detractors also frame their “no”… 
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 Slow progress is not good enoughAttitude, Biz Tech, Change, Collaboration, Content Marketing, CRM integration & utilisation, Customer experience, Data, Digital marketing, Engagement, Experience, Lead management, Marketing automation, Marketing ROl, Mindfullness, Sales alignment, To be defined, Transformation, ValueRead more: Slow progress is not good enoughNow into its second decade, the survey by leading Australian B2B marketing agency Green Hat shows that marketers are achieving only slow progress in digitising and driving commercial outcomes. 
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 Marketing must earn its Board Room credibilityRead more: Marketing must earn its Board Room credibilityMarketing has long been a lightweight player in too many old-school Boardrooms, dominated by people with finance and legal backgrounds. As it is not regarded as mission critical, Marketing’s Opex… 
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 Missing in action: dynamic and transparent dashboards?Read more: Missing in action: dynamic and transparent dashboards?Where are our governments’ COVID-19 dashboards? As most professionals know, dashboards are visualization tools used to communicate actionable information. Governments do appear to have them, in various iterations, but are… 
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 Survey better not lessRead more: Survey better not lessMake your customer sentiment surveys better, don’t scale them back; and ask “is there anything we could have done to make your experience more exceptional?” Great insight from Net Promoter… 

