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Measuring What’s Important At Cisco
When Cisco starting its marketing measurement program, it found that different teams were measuring things that they COULD measure, and that made them look good, rather than what they SHOULD measure. To change this, the analytics team created a specific metric they called “engagement” which consists of data on all of the different interactions with […]

The Human Side of Marketing Analytics
A successful marketing analytics program requires much more than data, technology and number crunching. There’s also a human side that is critical to achieving the best results. Listen in as Damian Fernandez, VP of Global Analytics for Fossil Group, shares details of how his organization has built a strong and highly successful analytics culture by […]

Direct-to-Consumer Has Sparked a New Era for Marketers
In this exclusive DAC interview, Terry Kawaja, Founder & CEO of LUMA Partners, explains how the direct-to-consumer (DTC) phenomenon has created a new era for today’s marketers. Are you ready for it? Video Transcript Terry Kawaja: Doing marketing the old way isn’t working because let’s face it, over half the Fortune 500 companies are declining […]

How IBM is Reinventing Marketing with an Agile Approach
“We are going to be the number one company on the planet to bring Agile as a discipline to marketing.” Strong words from Michelle Peluso, CMO of IBM. Listen in as Michelle tells DAC Executive Editor Daniel Kehrer how IBM is going about doing just that. Also see these DAC videos from our interview with […]

Adding Agile to Your Marketing
The Agile methodology has worked wonders for software development and an increasingly wide range of other processes. Why not for marketing, too? IBM is one major brand leading the way in applying Agile to marketing, with exceptional results — especially considering that IBM’s marketing team is over 5,000 strong, worldwide. DAC talked with Michelle Peluso, […]

Best Practices for Creating a True Analytics Culture
The article below is excerpted from the new Forrester research report How An Analytics Culture Drives Exceptional Business Results, created in partnership with the ANA and Neustar. View or download (PDF) the full research report here. Competitive pressures are increasing across the board for brands today. Customer demands and preferences are constantly changing, and there is increasingly […]

Secrets to Attracting Top Analytics Talent in a Hot Market
Rhea Trupe, a Sr. Global recruiting Lead for global executive recruitment firm JBCconnect, is one of the few executive recruiters specializing exclusively in data science and analytics roles, for marketing and other organizations. In the era of data-driven everything, the need for marketing and business analytics professionals has never been greater. Annual demand for data […]

A Culture of Analytics Greatly Amplifies Marketing Impact
Today’s advanced marketing measurement tools and technologies can be game changers. But they only take an organization part way to the kinds of eye-catching performance improvements that are ultimately possible. The catalyst needed to go the distance comes down to one word: Culture That’s a key takeaway from groundbreaking new research by Forrester, commissioned by […]

Building Your Marketing Measurement Dream Team
Using data to drive marketing strategy and connect with consumers is a top CMO priority. But it’s not an easy rodeo. Even though companies aren’t suffering from a lack of data, they are often missing the talent required to lasso it. Just 1.9% of marketing leaders say their companies have the right people in place […]

DAC Video: Picking Your Measurement Partners
The importance of choosing the right marketing measurement partners to work with: What to think about, some questions to ask, and where companies sometimes go wrong.
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