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The Responsiveness Requirement
According to 150 marketers surveyed by the CMO Council, the ability to source, understand and then quickly react to feedback, preferences and needs is important, if not critical, to the delivery of an exceptional customer experience.... More
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The Customer in Context
The findings of this survey of more than 2,000 consumers—conducted in partnership with SAP Customer Experience— reveals that customer experience is more critical than ever as consumers will abandon a brand and take their money elsewhere if they continuously encounter poor, impersonal or frustrating customer experiences.... More
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The Age of the Adaptive Marketer
This report highlights the challenge global marketers face in modifying brand materials across a growing multitude of touch points, and it demonstrates how can today’s modern marketing leader can accelerate adaptive marketing initiatives. Presenting brand materials in a manner that maintains brand identity while also adapting to geographical and cultural preferences.... More
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Product Ownership
New research reveals only 17 percent of consumers believe brands truly care about them after the point of purchase. To enrich the customer experience, brand marketers must take steps to elevate the ownership experience. The ownership experience should be a critical brand differentiator and revenue generator for both manufacturers and retailers. ... More
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How Brands Annoy Fans
As a result of digital content infection, nearly half of all consumers indicate they would rethink purchasing from brands, or even boycott products, if the ads from these brands appeared alongside digital content that offended them. While it is estimated that programmatic advertising will account for 80 percent of all digital display advertising in 2017,... More
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Adaptability in Branded Content Delivery: Background Research
This presentation explores background research conducted by the CMO Council and other third party experts to explore the state of adaptability in the world's largest global brands. The presentation explores the localization mandate, benefits of adapting and localizing content, the need for platforms, and overcoming localization hurdles. ... More
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Establishing and Enriching the Content Supply Chain
This white paper details best practices in taking content to market—one that applies supply chain thinking to creative content development and delivery. It also discusses how content fuels the customer journey and, when done correctly, can be directly tied to business growth and revenue.... More
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The Impact of Connectedness on Competitiveness
A landmark CMO Council and BPI Network study exploring the impact of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in a complex and changing ecosystem. The Industrial Internet of Things will transform business and industrial performance, delivering significant improvements in operational efficiency and uptime, as well as growth from new business models, products, services and customer experiences.... More
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Empowering the Data-Driven Customer Strategy
While today’s connected customers expect more seamless, frictionless experiences than ever before, this study reveals that marketers are failing to keep pace with those expectations, despite the wealth of data, analytics and engagement systems currently in place.... More
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Strategy 2017
This white paper, completed in partnership with IBM Marketing Cloud, outlines the actions and mindsets that must be in place across the organization in order to create customer experiences that result in business profitability, in addition to the consequences of failing to meet the expectations of today’s connected customer.... More
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The CMO Shift to Gaining Business Lift: Executive Perspectives
The role of the CMO has evolved far beyond anyone could have predicted 10 years ago. Gone is the traditional role of mere brand ambassador, replaced with the critical role of business driver, change agent and customer experience champion. As was revealed in the report "The CMO Shift to Gaining Business Lift," CMOs have a clear desire, and business-supported mandate to serve as the primary growth d... More
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Connected Interaction to Power Brand Attraction
This study reveals the findings of a survey of 198 global senior marketing executives and explores how digital transformation has impacted marketing and the organization’s ability to grow and profit from expanded relationships with customers, particularly as it relates to content and data strategies.... More
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Mind the Gap
This white paper outlines key actions marketers can employ across their teams to achieve true customer experience success in the coming year. Believe it or not, just 8 percent of 200 chief marketers surveyed by the CMO Council in Q3 admit to auditing, assessing and continually improving the customer experience.... More
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The CMO Shift to Gaining Business Lift
The CMO of today has denounced the traditional role of mere brand ambassador, instead opting to actively assert their role as business driver, change agent and customer experience champion. But while the CMO of today knows they will need to take the driver's seat in steering the development of next generation products, services, business models and customer experiences, many may still be falling i... More
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Omnichannel's Missing Link
According to the findings from this CMO Council study, conducted in partnership with digital marketing intelligence company Netsertive, the strength of the entire omnichannel experience may lie in the last mile of the journey, where customers are choosing to transact, as well as in local retail partnerships and touchpoints. The online survey at the core of this research was fielded during the thir... More
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The New Rules of Engagement
This white paper, produced by the CMO Council, in partnership with Bazaarvoice, explores consumer expectations around personalization and the challenges that marketers must overcome in order to provide the targeted, relevant communications that consumers want.... More
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Be an ADEPT Traveler
This global study explores top travel stressers, and what savvy travelers around the world are doing to better prepare for superior travel experience. Travelers urge destination marketers to help take steps to make travel more pleasureable and less stressful. ... More
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Building Brands That Attract + Engage Fans
The CMO Council teamed with Fresh Squeezed Ideas for this white paper to explore the cultural connection to brand attraction. The strategic brief features insights from domain experts and notable brand marketers at PepsiCo, Visa, J&J, PetSmart, Cox Communications, Opus Bank and Overwaitea Food Group to gauge how culturally connected brands stay valued, real and relevant with consumers. ... More
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Gaining Traction Through Each Customer Interaction
Despite marketing’s best intentions and desire to deliver on the promise of customer centricity, many of us are stymied by gaps and deficiencies across the people, processes and platforms that are powering our customer interactions. In fact, in a recent study, the CMO Council found that marketers across Asia-Pacific admitted that their back-office systems were not enabling their brands to fu... More
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Context, Commerce + Customer
This report, based on the findings from an online audit of more than 170 senior marketing leaders from around the world in the first half of 2016, examines how disconnects and deficiencies are impacting experience and how analytics and customer insights can create more relevant, personalized and gratifying experiences. It also explores the impact that delivering contextual experiences through indi... More