The Strange Bedfellows of Marketing and Technology

The emergence of marketing as a driving force behind organizational direction (has pushed marketing and marketing technology into the C-Suite) has renewed emphasis on this relationship, one that today’s enterprise will need to epitomize the spirit of partnership in order to thrive.

Remember the old days when marketing was viewed as a ‘soft’ discipline?  The average organization recognized the value of brand and that marketing played a big role in defining and elevating it, but as a capability its influence was difficult to measure.  In a recent Adobe survey of digital marketing organizations, mature companies were found 200 percent  more likely to have mobile app analytics, 330 percent more likely to have done multivariate testing and 250 percent more likely to do attribution modeling.  There’s nothing soft about that.  Marketing and technology professionals have been pushed even closer together by the pursuit of the omni-channel vision, where personalized and high-touch marketing interactions are powered by increasingly sophisticated mobile devices, ad tech, big data and predictive analytics. [...]

 

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