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Is the Role of the B2B CMO Past Its Prime? Or Is It Just in Need of Some Re-positioning around Go-to-market Leadership?

ANNUITAS

There is perhaps no more challenging role in the C-suite than that of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) within a B2B organization. While the data on average tenure for CMOs changes each year, the consistent trend is that – among the C-suite – CMOs typically have some of the shortest tenure, well shorter than CEOs, CFOs and CIOs.

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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. That all seems causal, but then the survey takes a strange turn.

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

Content Standard

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. Successful CMOs are effectively becoming customer ethnographers.

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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. You need to quickly prove you can generate demand. Neither is hesitation. Identify some quick wins.

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ANNUITAS Predicts – How Go-to-market Will Transform in 2024

ANNUITAS

Seventy-one percent of CMOs said they lack the budget to fully execute their strategy in 2023,” reports Gartner in a survey of more than 400 CMOs and marketing leaders. Ninety-four percent of marketers are using AI tools as part of their GTM Tech Stack, according to Deloitte’s bi-annual CMO survey. Their approach?

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3 Demand Generation Trends to Watch in 2019

ANNUITAS

Adobe announced that consumer demand for personalized content reached an all-time high in 2018, a theme that underscored some of the most prominent trends of the year. Although your CMO probably won’t be replaced anytime soon, marketers edged further into the realm of AI with technologies like personalization engines in 2018.

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Hot off the Press: Empowered CMO Network 2021 Report

6sense

So when it came time to reconvene women B2B marketing leaders for our Empowered CMO Network gatherings, as we’ve done the past few years alongside co-sponsors SEBA International, Medallia, Allocadia, PathFactory, and Blast Media, it was just a matter of how, not if. If nothing else, 2020 was ripe for profound reflection and reassessment.

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