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The CMO Isn’t Dead: Mastering the Skills of the Modern Marketing Leader

Content Standard

Across industries and business models, marketing is essential to surviving and thriving. So why the recent flurry of headlines pronouncing the death of the CMO? In reality, the CMO role is evolving, as it should , and companies are restructuring, as they do. Thankfully, I know very few CMOs who fit this description.

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Gartner: Give up on the complete view of the customer

Martech

Almost half of the most advanced CDP users have significant challenges with data integration, Gartner’s Matt Wakeman told an audience at Marketing Symposium. Blowing up conventional wisdom This was the week Gartner analysts set about exploding some very familiar ideas about customer data collection and management.

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Gartner rips CMOs over martech while business demands ‘more with less’

Sword and the Script | B2B

The tech analyst likens CMOs spending and utilization of martech to gambling with the marketing budget but the real culprit may well be short-term thinking in business CMOs are buying and implementing marketing technology (martech) that their marketing teams aren’t using. Ergo, CMOs invest martech. It’s 11.4%

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B2B Findings From "The CMO Survey" - Part 1

B2B Marketing Directions

The findings of the August 2021 edition of The CMO Survey were published last month. The CMO Survey is led by Dr. Christine Moorman and sponsored by Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, the American Marketing Association and Deloitte LLP. The CMO Survey is conducted semi-annually, and it provides a wealth of information.

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Mission Impossible: Making Hard Choices as a First-time CMO (Part 2)

DiscoverOrg

Fear isn’t a luxury the CMO can afford. Today’s CMO position – “ a minefield where many talented executives fail ” – requires the courage of conviction to survive. If you’re a first-time CMO, this goes double. But a CMO with staying power has an obligation to drive real innovation and momentum.

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Infographic: The DNA of a Modern CMO

Contently

“As the roles of marketing and the chief marketer expand, it will become critical for CEOs to ensure that they have the right person as CMO, to understand fully how customers are changing, and to become more involved in developing new marketing capabilities across the company.” The number hasn’t been this high since 2015.

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Gartner Research Maps the Landscape of Marketing Operations

B2B Marketing Directions

Image Source: Gartner, Inc. Gartner recently published the findings of the 2020 Gartner Marketing Operations and Organization Survey. In fact, Gartner's 2019 Marketing Organizational Survey found that more than two-thirds of marketing organizations have a discrete marketing operations function.

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