The Epic Collision of Marketing and Technology

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Marketing is becoming a technology-powered discipline, from the front-facing technologies we use to engage with prospects and customers in a digital world to the back-office technologies we use for a new generation of marketing operations. These technologies have tremendous potential to increase marketing's capabilities and value to the organization – but they require us to embrace technology strategy and management as a more integral part of the marketing function. This session will give you an overview of these new dynamics and help you forge a plan for moving forward in this brave, new world. This presentation was delivered to the attendees of Godfrey's FWD:B2B conference on November 7th, 2013

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“The Epic Collision of Marketing & Technology”

Scott BrinkerNovember 7, 2013

The Epic Collision ofMarketing & Technology

by Scott Brinker@chiefmartec

Technology

Madison Avenue

How big is this technology asteroid?

A) BigB) Very BigC) OMG

Big

VERYBIG

OMG

“You go marketing with the technology you have

— not the technologyyou might want or wish

to have.”

technology changes exponentially

organizations change logarithmically

technology management is deciding which

changes are adopted

?

?

70%

…of marketers feel that the marketing function will fundamentally change over the next 5 years.

Accenture Interactive: Turbulence for the CMO report 2013

What is driving this fundamental change?

1 2 3

1

In the beginning…

(1960)

Product Price

Place Promotion

Marketing Mix

4P’sTheory

Product Price

Place

$$$Promotion

Marketing Mix

4P’sPractice

But the Internet delivered a one-two punch tothe reigning promotion champ…

InstantExperience

1

The distance between promotion and product experience has collapsed to a click.

An explosion of customer experience

touchpoints.

The Extended Product

InstantExperience

OpenCommunication

12

But the Internet delivered a one-two punch tothe reigning promotion champ…

ZMOT: Winning the Zero Moment of Truth by Jim Lecinski

“Yeah, but we’re in B2B…”

“Big, large, glass buildings do not

buy software. People do.”

– Jonathan BecherCMO, SAP

The “new” champ of the marketing mix…

ExtendedProduct Price

Place Promotion

Marketing Mix

4P’sRevised

http://chiefmartec.com/2013/09/front-row-merging-marketing-technology/

Develop marketing staff who think like “product owners” more than marketing managers. A “product” might be anything that customers interact with — for instance, a website.

Interview with Ray ValezCTO of RazorfishAuthor of Converge

Customer experience is your brand.

But what are experiences made from?

2

Fact #1:The world is now digital.

Domo Infographic: Data Never Sleeps

Fact #1:The world is now digital.

Fact #2:Everything digital is powered by software.

“Software is eating the

world.”

Why Software is Eating the World, Marc Andreessen, The Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2011

“I feel more like a CIO than a CMO! I have marketing automation, CRM, listening platforms—I’m up to my eyeballs in technology.”

Marketing Spend

Migration from old to new

Cloud Computing

Migration from IT to SaaS

Trackable Medium Measurable ROI

Disruptive Innovation

Opportunity for new players

Software Economics

Low cost, high margin

Large market

Relatively easy to sell

Low barriers to entry N

ew V

entu

res

Today

Mega Suites

Backbone Platforms with

3rd-Party “Apps”

Today

Backbone Platforms with

3rd-Party “Apps”

Marketing is not ERP.

We don’t control the environment.

We don’t control the customer.

We want to be differentiated.

Platform strategies are starting to emerge in

marketing automation.

http://chiefmartec.com/2013/10/emerging-third-party-era-marketing-automation/

A Golden Age of Marketing Software

Software is how marketing “sees” and “touches” customers

in a digital world.

Analytics shapes perceptions.

Automation guides processes.

Optimization hones tactics.

Listening directs engagement.

Targeting defines segments.

CRM structures relationships.

“He who controls the spice, controls

the universe.”

“He (or she) who controls the software, controls the marketing.”

The King Solomon Marketing/Technology Split

We want marketers who are also techy-savvy (and vice versa).

Marketing technologists.Growth hackers.

Digital strategists.Marketing operations.

Data scientists.Marketing nerds.

Data from Gartner 2012, graphic by IBM.

Technology Expertise

Tech

nolo

gy A

utho

rity Cowboy

Laggard Prisoner

Superstar

Not everyone in marketingneeds to be a technologist.

Just as not everyone in marketinghad to be a “creative.”

Design

Technology

Storytelling

Finance

Technology must become a part of marketing’s DNA.

21% of CEOs think technical expertise is a top 3 CMO skill.

Only 13% think agency experience is.

3

Plan

Review

Produce

Deploy

This is known as waterfall project management.

Traditional marketing management followed a relatively well-structured, staged yearly plan.

It’s a predictive approach to management.

Going back up the waterfall is not

pleasant.

That is a dead marketing plan.

Agile marketing is an approach for adaptive marketing management.

Derived from agile software development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.

Team Process PhilosophyArtifacts

The elements of agile marketing:

Update Backlog

1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4

5 5 6 6 7 7 8 8

9 9 1010 1111

Write down tasks or “stories along the buyer’s journey.”

Prioritize them.

This is your backlog.

Sprint Planning

1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4

5 5 6 6 7 7 8 8

9 9 1010 1111

1 1

2 2

3 3

4 4

5 5

This is your task board.

To Do In Progress Done

The team takes a set of tasks—in order—that they will commit to completing in this sprint.

Sprint

To Do In Progress Done

Kanban limits work in progress.

During the sprint, team members take on tasks in order of priority.

Work “in progress” is easy to see.

1 day

Daily Stand-up

Every day, the team meets for a 15-minute stand-up.

1. What did I do yesterday?

2. What am I going to do today?

3. Are there any impediments holding me back?

Each person on the team answers three questions:

Sprint

Sprint Review

To Do In Progress Done

At the end of the sprint, the team conducts a review of the work completed.

This is a good time todemo and report on progress to management.

Often inspires new tasks to be added to the backlog.

Sprint Retrospective

The team also does a retrospective meeting — not about the work, but about the process and their interactions:

What went well?

What could have been better?

What should we try next time?

The agile cycle continues…

vs.

Agile marketing isn’t about workingfaster.

One Long Cycle

Multiple Short Cycles

It’s working in a more incremental and iterative fashion — to have more flexibility to adapt to feedback and changes.

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So back to that epic collision…

Don’t think of it as the end of the dinosaurs (it is).

Think of it as the rise of the modern marketer.

BloggerChief Marketing Technologisthttp://chiefmartec.com

Co-founder & CTOion interactive, inc.http://ioninteractive.com

sbrinker@ioninteractive.comTwitter: @chiefmartec

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