A new age of marketing has arrived, where customer and revenue reign supreme and the Chief Marketing Officer is the driver and orchestrator of growth. Gone are the days of loosely connected campaign-driven operations guided by marketing metrics derived from rear-view mirror looks into past performance. Transformational marketing practices are actively shifting towards autonomous operations engines that empower teams sitting far beyond marketing’s own walls to ensure engagements and experiences stand at the ready to meet the customer’s expectations and their micro-moments of need. Digital transformation is not “enough”…marketing as a whole must transform and transcend channel.
Learn how organizations will activate transformation and embrace the need to put customer before channel and shift from a mindset of reporting on metrics to thriving on advanced analytics that feeds and informs holistic business strategy. Understand the success stories and the lessons learned as leaders must work in a rapidly evolving paradigm where revenue is the metric that matters, and customers are the drivers of their own experiences.
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ServiceNow said that the purchase of Logik.ai will expand its reach into CRM. Salesforce said Logik.ai will also accelerate its efforts in sales and order management processes.
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Raja Renganathan. Chief Growth Officer at Randstad Digital, said enterprises have invested heavily in various platforms, but need to focus on transformation—technical and cultural—to truly break workflow silos with AI.
Heather Wilson, Senior Vice President and Chief Communications and Marketing Officer at AccentCare, sits at the intersection of customer experience, employee experience, marketing and talent recruitment.
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