Agile Marketing Software: How Simple Supports your Agile Process
Business professor Leon C Megginson’s famous words sum up the conundrum facing a growing number of marketing leaders who are turning to agile marketing processes to help them prosper in a disrupted...
Six Ways to Smash the Silo Effect that Plagues Marketing
Most customers are on first-name terms with the Silo Effect: you know, when you call your insurance company to discuss your home insurance policy and find if you also want to take a car insurance...
The Death of the Spreadsheet Marketing Calendar
Managing all your marketing activity without a marketing calendar is a bit like having a dozen balls in the air and trying to guess how fast each one is spinning while riding a unicycle on a...
How to Consolidate 4 of Your Marketing Tools with 1 Solution
Anyone who’s ever been part of a marketing team understands how chaotic it can be to execute on strategy. This only gets worse the larger your team gets. You end up with tool chaos — multiple logins,...
Laying the foundations for transformational change in marketing
Few people know what it takes to deliver successful transformations in marketing and operations as well as Norma Abeyasekera, founder of Abey & Abey Consulting and former Director Operations,...
8 Tips for Tackling your Internal Agency’s Biggest Problem: Growth
Internal agencies are all the rage, it seems. Whether you’re in corporate marketing, retail, a technology start-up or a sector with specific needs such as higher education — marketing teams are...
6 Things to Do After a Marketing Team Restructure
Marketing teams were once relatively stable structures with brand and direct marketing teams, perhaps a communications or events team, and a few agency partners. That has changed with the addition of...
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 Signs Your Marketing Planning Process Needs an Update
“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” That’s the claim of time management guru Alan Lakein. So why don’t more marketers look forward to...
5 Reasons to Restructure Marketing into Cross-Functional Teams This Year
Is your marketing department organised in cross-functional teams focused on customer segments and journeys? Or do your marketers work in functional silos with all the digital marketers together,...
