Aligning the CMO + CIO to Drive Customer Insight, Intimacy and Engagement
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Technology and customer data access have become the essential enablers of marketing effectiveness, creating more adaptive, intelligent marketing organizations and more responsive, customer experience-centered corporate cultures. Today’s savvy CEO is seeing the critical need to better align, leverage and mesh IT groups, database repositories and digital infrastructures with marketing functions and assets worldwide.
Owning customer insight has become the new mission and mandate of the CIO (in effect, the Chief Insight Officer) as they strive to integrate and extract value from disparate data sources inside and outside the organization. Employing digital marketing platforms, advanced analytics and predictive modeling, CIOs are helping marketers better target and access market segments; improve response, retention and revenue streams; as well as deliver more required and desired products and service experiences. New social network, mobile media and Internet content delivery channels are becoming key determinants of customer voice, affinity and advocacy, requiring new strategies, talents and resources in both marketing and IT organizations.
As leading change agents, the CMO and CIO have to be tightly coupled in the journey to optimize customer lifetime value through more personal, timely, targeted and engaging interactions with diverse audiences. The ultimate objective is “customer relevance,” a state of being that makes brands robust, resilient and highly valued in the market.
When CMOs and CIOs were asked to rate the importance of digital marketing to the organization, both agreed (40 percent marketing; 38 percent IT) that technology now underpins and shapes the entire customer experience. CMO Council
The vast majority of marketers see the CMO as a primary leader (69 percent) and only rarely consider the CIO and IT department (19 percent) important to defining digital marketing strategy. IT executives, on the other hand, most often point to themselves (58 percent) as the true champions of digital marketing, although they do frequently cite the CMO (51 percent) as well. CMO Council
Only 27 percent of marketers, and an equal number of IT executives, agree with the statement “we know what we need to know about customer’s usage of our digital channels.” CMO Council
Technology ranks as the No. 1 area in which they [CMOs] see the greatest opportunity to improve. Forrester & Heidrick & Struggles
Around 38 percent of CIO respondents said that they lack support from other executives, especially in companies with revenues of over US$1 billion. Ernst & Young
IT leaders give their relationship with marketing weak marks (29%) than for any other business area. InformationWeek
Only 17 percent of CIOs are counted among the top management group, and just 43 percent of people in that role are involved in executive decision making. Ernst & Young
60 percent of CIOs think that they add strong value to their companies, only 35 percent of their executive peers agree. Ernst & Young
By 2017 the CMO will Spend More on IT Than the CIO. Gartner
Although just 10% of CIO respondents consider social media essential, 41% said it will be, in the future. InformationWeek
According to a recent survey, only 2% of companies have a fully integrated approach to service management; more than 75% are not integrated at all or only partially integrated. CIO.com
A study, which included 400 North American IT decision makers—from those that owned the budgets to those that made the final purchase decisions—found that 73% have engaged with IT vendors on a social network. Moreover, 59% of IT decision makers “rely” on the social networks for purchasing decisions, whereas 46% use online periodicals. Direct Marketing
Driving Revenue Through Customer Relevance - CMO Council
IT in Search of Integrated Service Management - FrontRange
CIOs Leading the Way a Discussion on Transforming IT - Service-now.com
January 2013 - Customer-Centricity: Why Engineers Are Not Enough and Poets Are Essential - Business 2 Community
January 2013 - The Strategic CIO Agenda 2013: Strategies, Priorities, and Career-Killers - Forbes
January 2013 - Reflections on Customer-Centricity and Leadership - Business 2 Community
December 2012 - CIO And CMO: Friends Or Frenemies? - Biztech2
December 2012 - Core System Modernization Makes Customer Centricity Possible - Banktech
December 2012 - Harnessing the Power of Insight: Customer-Centric Innovation in a Changing World - Saine Innovaton Network
December 2012 - The Magic when CMOs and CIOs Team Up - Business 2 Community
December 2012 - CMO to CIO: “I want to friend you” - Sales & Marketing Management
November 2012 - This is the CIO, at Your Service- The Sydney Morning Herald
November 2012 - The CMO's Ultimate Survival Guide: How to Train Your CEO - AdAge
November 2012 - Zero-Segment Marketing: The Path to Customer-Centricity and Exceptional Marketing Results - Business 2 Community
November 2012 - Embracing Big Data Can Add Years to a CMO’s Tenure - Chief Marketer
November 2012 - Insurance CIOs Embrace Their Role as Marketers - Insurance & Technology
November 2012 - Gartner Holds CMOs, CIOs Accountable - Direct Marketing News
November 2012 - How CMOs Can Work with CIOs to Gain Customer Insight - Harvard Business Review
November 2012 - CIOs, CMOs Can Bond over Big Data - IT Business Edge
November 2012 - Even B2B Marketers Need Friends - Direct Marketing News
November 2012 - A CIO Learns That Efficiency Isn't Enough - CIO.com
November 2012 - Survey Probes The 'CEO-Marketer Divide' - MediaPost
November 2012 - CMO, CIO? You Need an MOO - Successful Workplace
November 2012 - CIOs, CMOs Team Up to Boost Customer Experience - CIO Asia
October 2012 - CIOs Undervalued and Under-utilised: Ernst & Young - ZDnet
October 2012 - Gartner: CIOs Begin 3-Year Shift In Responsibilities - Information Week
October 2012 - BlackBerry CIO on Mobile Security, BYOD and the Modern CIO Role - CIO.com
October 2012 - CIOs Feel Ripple Effect of Chief Customer Officers - Computer World
October 2012 - iPad Mini & iPad 4th Generation: What CIOs Need To Know - Forbes
October 2012 - DNS Becomes as a Security Option for CIOs - CIO.com
October 2012 - 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends - MarketingProfs
October 2012 - Does the Rise of CMOs Threaten CIOs? - CIO.com
October 2012 - Your CMO May Be Your New CIO (And What That Means For Enterprise Mobility) - ZDnet
October 2012 - Companies Look for Tech Outsourcing: CIOs Need to Adopt New Skills to Survive - The Economic Times
October 2012 - Eclipse Announces Successful Marriage of CMO and CIO; Enterprise Document Generation Brings Success Story to Marketing and IT - Equities.com
October 2012 - From Dungeon to Corner Office: Evolution of the CIO, Forbes
October 2012 - Elite 8 2012: CIO Michael Fergang Drives Innovation for the Business at Grange Insurance - Insurance & Technology
October 2012 - Managing Change, Starting With the CIO - CIO Insight
October 2012 - The Changing Role of the Bank CIO - Bank Systems & Technology
October 2012 - The Surge of the Strategic CIO - Forbes
October 2012 - The CMO-CIO Alignment Imperative: Integrating Digital to Drive Insurance Enterprise Performance - Insurance & Technology
October 2012- Why Some CIOs Have More Staying Power Than Others -CIO.com
October 2012 - Waiting to play: Overcoming 'The CIO Paradox' - ZDNet.com
October 2012 - SoundOff: What's Keeping CIOs Awake at Night - Fierce CIO
October 2012 - CIOs Must Face the Talent Challenge - CIO.com
October 2012 - Cerberus CIO Richard Alexander's A-Team - Water's Technology
September 2012 - Research: The Devalued Future of IT in a Marketing World - ZDnet
September 2012 - CMOs and CIOs, It's Time to Mend Those Fences - Click Z
September 2012 - More Companies Agree on Big Data’s Benefits Than Its Definition - Marketing Charts
September 2012 - Hey CIOs! Show Your CMO the Love - CIO.com
August 2011 - Are CIOs From Mars? If So, It's Time for CMOs to Visit - Forbes
