Strategy

CMO of the Future

The CMO title barely existed 15 years ago but it is already undergoing a significant transformation. There are some major shifts in landscape in which they operate: changes in Technology, Consumer Behavior and the Media Landscape. In a recent research report entitled Future Tense: the Global CMO published by the Economist Intelligence Unit I hope [...]

Proven Big M Marketing Techniques

Marketing is the interface a company builds to interact with the marketplace and the customer base. The marketing group, combined with the sales force, is the point in the company where the market understanding resides.
This should be the group that drives the company, that sells the marketing vision and message internally, and if that is [...]

Redefining the Role of the CMO

Highlights of a Panel at the Media Convergence Forum featuring:

Jeff Hayzlett – Chief Business Development Officer, Eastman Kodak
Russ Klein – President Global Marketing Strategy, Burger King
Nicholas Utton – CMO, E-Trade Financial

Role of the CMO faces evolution and reinvention unlike any of the peers of the CMO.
What the CMO role mean to each of you?
Jeff – [...]

Total Business Strategy: From Planning to Execution

Professor Michael Porter, Harvard Business School on the topic of Strategy at the World Business Forum.
Times like these the need for strategy and planning could never be more important. But there is still a lot of confusion about Strategy and what it is.
What are the core principles that are going to determine the success of [...]