It can sometimes be difficult to determine whether your company is ready to implement "Marketing Operations." As described in "7 Deadly Sins" (also in this chapter), Marketing Operations (MO) is an emerging discipline with the potential to significantly increase performance and accountability in complex marketing organizations. It leverages a strong front-end infrastructure to … [Read more...]
Solving Marketing’s Seven Deadly Sins
Busy corporate marketing groups can be so focused on tactics and firefighting, they jeopardize their marketing investment. Overreacting to events, tackling symptoms rather than underlying fundamental problems and jumping to please the boss can prove fatal. Crippled marketing efforts can leave promising companies in the dust or, at least, handicapped at the starting … [Read more...]