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6 Essential Elements for Cross-Functional Marketing Team Success

Cross-functional teams were once the domain of short-term or discrete projects – set up for a few months or a couple of years, and disbanded once the job was done. But the need for greater agility...

5 Ways Marketing Team Structures are Changing in 2019

It’s become de rigeur for marketing team structures to change every couple of years, if not more frequently. These restructures can be as simple as a slight re-organisation to accommodate the...

5 Tips for Buying Martech that Saves You Time

If you look at all the separate individual platforms or SaaS systems companies are investing in, teams are losing about five hours a week just by logging in and going into those separate systems....

5 Tips for a Great Introduction to Marketing Operations (or Marketing Resource Management)

Introducing a marketing operations (or marketing resource management, aka 'MRM') system to your organisation takes a bit of planning. This is because there are usually many stakeholders, both from...

5 Steps to Visibility: the Holy Grail of Marketing

“The power of visibility can never be underestimated.” Comedian Margaret Cho may have been talking about bigger life issues when she said those words, but the same holds true when it comes to...

5 Steps to Designing an Effective Marketing Operations Implementation

The effective management of marketing resources is an omnipresent challenge in corporations, according to Kerry-Ann Benton, who has been involved with marketing resource management in many guises...

Why AI is Too Important to Leave to Data Scientists

Marketers cannot leave data scientists to apply artificial intelligence to marketing data without themselves understanding how the technology works, or they risk misunderstanding their markets,...

The Key to Managing Operational Change in Marketing

“Most people don’t like change,” according to leadership guru John Maxwell. “They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. “For that reason, when good leaders prepare to...

4 Things We’ve Learned from Ongoing Global Financial Scandals

In 2019 there are some massive global issues for financial services marketers that will not go away. Every major market, from Europe to the US to Australia, seems to be affected.

Managing brand personality across channels crucial to trust: RMIT

Media disruption is impacting the habits of some audiences as often as every three months, with students reacting to trends and changing the way they use or consume social media as often as once a...