Why building your corporate memory muscle is your best marketing and CX investment
We all know there’s a high level of turnover in the average marketing team. How high? Well, according to a recent LinkedIn study, marketing roles have the highest turnover rate of any job function at...
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,...
4 Ways AI Will Make Creative Briefs Better
Ad man David Ogilvy once famously said: “Give me the freedom of a tight brief.” A tight creative brief to agency creative teams eliminates time-wasters and tangential information, making it faster...
3 Mistakes to Avoid at Your In-House Agency
As big brands like Optus and CUB embrace the concept of bringing creative work in-house, the discussion around the rise of in-house studios and internal agencies becomes a hot topic once again. It’s...
Under or Over Your Marketing Budget This Year? What To Do?
For anyone who’s in charge of a marketing budget, and rapidly approaching the end of their organization’s financial year, it’s a tricky time. Because closing out the financial year over budget is...
