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Harvard Business Review – The Rise of the Chief Marketing Technologist
The Rise of the Chief Marketing Technologist by Scott Brinker and Laura McLellan Artwork: Markus Linnenbrink, EVERYWHEREALLTHETIMEEVERYTHING, 2009, epoxy resin, pigments, 20″ x 39″ x 82″ Marketing is rapidly becoming one of the most technology-dependent functions in business. In 2012 the research and consulting firm Gartner predicted that by 2017, a company’s chief marketing…
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The New Marketer – From T-Shaped to Pi-Shaped
Ashley Friedlein, the CEO of Econsultancy, has a great op-ed in Marketing Week today, Why modern marketers need to be pi-people. That’s “pi” as in the capital Greek letter pi that looks like this: Π. It’s a riff on the label “T-shaped people” that has been popularized in digital marketing over the past few years.…
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What Makes a Marketing Technologist – Just Technology?
If there is one thing that struck a very strong chord with me in 2012, it has been the notion of MARKETING TECHNOLOGY and a strong need for MARKETING TECHNOLOGISTS in order to enable Marketing in a Digital World (yes not the same as Digital Marketing). The year of course started with a LOT of…
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Investing in Marketing Technology Future – Marketing Technology Office
Originally published by: Forrester on 2011-10-24 13:28:20. Written by Robert Brosnan | Suresh Vittal MARKETING RISKS SUCCUMBING TO TECHNOLOGY SPRAWL To compete in the age of the customer, marketing departments must increase technology investments to facilitate the capture, analysis, and application of customer data. (see endnote 1) The knot of proliferating channels, rapidly evolving behavior,…