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Occam - Building Your Own Data-driven Marketing StrategyRoger Stevens
This document outlines a five-stage strategy for building a data-driven marketing strategy. The stages are: 1) Make data a habit by defining key performance indicators; 2) Analyze your data landscape by auditing what data you have; 3) Fill data gaps by gathering needed data while respecting customer privacy; 4) Commit to data quality by investing in people, processes and technology; 5) Leverage technology to turn raw data into insights. Implementing this strategy in a careful, step-by-step manner can help marketers avoid common pitfalls and ensure their data delivers actionable insights to inform decisions.
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Sales organizations are under pressure to increase revenue targets but many sales reps are struggling to meet quotas. A new, data-driven approach is needed that uses analytics and cloud-based systems rather than estimates and spreadsheets. This allows for improved sales planning, execution against plans, and performance monitoring. When implemented successfully, it provides a single version of the truth all can access to optimize sales performance.
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Occam - Building Your Own Data-driven Marketing StrategyRoger Stevens
This document outlines a five-stage strategy for building a data-driven marketing strategy. The stages are: 1) Make data a habit by defining key performance indicators; 2) Analyze your data landscape by auditing what data you have; 3) Fill data gaps by gathering needed data while respecting customer privacy; 4) Commit to data quality by investing in people, processes and technology; 5) Leverage technology to turn raw data into insights. Implementing this strategy in a careful, step-by-step manner can help marketers avoid common pitfalls and ensure their data delivers actionable insights to inform decisions.
Marketing Data Renovators Guide: 10 Steps to Prime Your B2B Database for Anal...Shelly Lucas
This document provides 10 steps to prepare a marketing database for analytics by renovating the data like a fixer-upper home. It begins by separating wants from needs and nailing down a budget. Consulting an expert to finalize a design is recommended before going deep into infrastructure upgrades and checking regulations. The steps also include auditing current data and ordering what's needed, expecting surprises, adding finishing touches, and reappraising the results. The overall message is that data quality renovations require careful planning, expertise, and ongoing maintenance for analytics to provide accurate insights.
Power Your Customer Experience with Data BrightFunnel
Rafa Flores presented on powering customer experience with data. The presentation covered key topics like customer experience, brand awareness, initial engagement, and a Subaru case study. It defined customer experience as interactions between an individual and organization throughout a business relationship. It discussed using 2nd and 3rd party data to improve brand awareness and initial engagement. A case study showed how Subaru used 1st party data to gain a 360 degree view of customers to send the right message at the right time in their journey.
Sales organizations are under pressure to increase revenue targets but many sales reps are struggling to meet quotas. A new, data-driven approach is needed that uses analytics and cloud-based systems rather than estimates and spreadsheets. This allows for improved sales planning, execution against plans, and performance monitoring. When implemented successfully, it provides a single version of the truth all can access to optimize sales performance.
Worst practices in Marketing OperationsHanson Wade
The document discusses five worst practices in marketing operations: 1) Renting mailing lists at the last moment without proper planning and testing. 2) Tracking every marketing campaign separately instead of using existing reporting processes. 3) Keeping sales and marketing databases separate instead of integrating data. 4) Checking data quality just before campaigns go out instead of ongoing management. 5) Undertaking marketing manually instead of using automation to enable sophisticated, measurable campaigns. Overcoming these practices can help marketing become more effective and achieve best-in-class performance.
The document outlines steps for marketers to create and use dashboards to better monitor marketing progress and facilitate decision making. It discusses the benefits of dashboards, including helping address poor data organization, biases, accountability demands, and cross-department integration. Case studies show how dashboards can inform decisions across various industries. The book provides guidance on assembling teams, gaining IT support, building databases, designing effective visualizations, and cultivating a data-driven culture.
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The document discusses Microsoft Dynamics CRM and its benefits for businesses. It highlights key capabilities including increasing sales productivity using familiar tools, gaining customer insights from social media and other sources, enabling collaborative selling across teams, providing sales analytics and metrics, tools for planning and managing sales processes, and supporting mobile sales. It also includes a quote from a customer praising the value of having a single shared version of customer data.
The document discusses key benefits, capabilities, and features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. It highlights how Dynamics CRM helps businesses stay focused on the right customers, win deals faster by streamlining sales processes, and build trust through consistent customer engagement. It describes capabilities for managing accounts and opportunities, gaining customer insights, enabling collaborative selling, performing sales analytics, managing the sales process, and supporting a mobile sales force. The document also provides information on the latest improvements to Dynamics CRM for sales, including enhanced productivity, social sales integration, mobile functionality, and analytics.
The document discusses how credit departments can enable sales growth through three strategies: 1) Prescreening accounts and enabling instant credit decisions to shorten sales cycles, 2) Reducing credit holds and finding upsell opportunities by taking a proactive risk-based approach, and 3) Optimizing customer portfolios and segmenting them to identify the profile of the best customers for targeting. The presentation provides examples of how each strategy can be implemented, such as enabling prescreening and instant credit decisions directly in CRM systems, using corporate family information to identify upsell opportunities, and creating a best customer profile based on factors like industry, size, and credit scores.
This document provides a guide for heads of marketing on implementing big data projects. It defines big data and discusses collecting the right data sources, engaging stakeholders, turning data into insights, optimizing marketing programs, contextualizing communications, and measuring business performance. The key steps are to focus on solving business problems, engage the right stakeholders, ensure the technology can provide insights and optimize programs, and structure data to meet user needs and metrics.
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The document is a magazine from Walter Analytics that discusses digital analytics and trends. It contains the following key points:
- Shaun Ernst reports on the growth of analytics in 2014 and tools like Universal Analytics, Enhanced Ecommerce, and demographic segmenting that provide more insights.
- Neil Walter discusses how to optimize pay-per-click acquisition through Google AdWords, noting it generated over $50 billion in 2013. Testing, refinement and constant innovation are key to success.
- Personalized content and real-time personalization using browser data is becoming more widely adopted by companies like Dropbox and Google to target messages to users.
The panelists discussed challenges with analyzing trade promotion data from multiple sources and integrating that data to generate insights. Typical issues include data quality problems, different data definitions and formats between systems, and a lack of integration. Moving along the data and analytics continuum from descriptive to predictive to prescriptive analytics can help organizations overcome these challenges and improve collaboration both internally and with trading partners. This allows data to provide visibility into retail execution and drive prioritization of issues.
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It’s no secret that the marketing landscape is changing faster than ever. Savvy marketers use this relentless pace to their advantage, testing, experimenting and optimizing their way to the top.
As data proliferates at a dizzying rate, marketing’s age-old questions haven’t changed. Agile marketing is, at heart, a way to answer and act on these fundamental questions at the speed and scale of modern marketing. And it mandates a new approach to measurement—one based on speed, iteration and business-building insights.
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Why Marketers need to know about Data
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Despite starting out as a qualitative researcher, roles and projects frequently brought me back to data. And so I decided to tackle it and have developed some interesting insights into data management along the way.
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1. Marketers need answers to what is working, what isn't working, and why. However, most solutions only provide limited insights that marketers don't fully trust.
2. To gain a complete picture, marketers must evaluate the entire customer journey beyond just marketing touchpoints, using holistic and unified data from across the customer experience.
3. Marketers also need to measure success using broader financial metrics like revenue and profitability, not just initial conversions, and optimize for customer lifetime value over single transactions.
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1. Businesses need a clearly defined data strategy aligned with business objectives to effectively use customer data. This includes having analytical skills both internally and accessing external expertise.
2. Data has become a primary tool for understanding customers, their needs, and predicting demand. However, many businesses have not optimized their data strategy and implementation.
3. Successful data-driven businesses have the right mix of internal and external resources, including data analysts with commercial and analytical skills connected to business goals. Leadership influences the organization to effectively infuse data-driven insights.
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Marketers are approaching a tipping point in 2015 where most will see a return on their investments in big data solutions for the first time. Survey results from the past three years show that marketers have made steady progress in using data to drive marketing. In 2015, over half of marketers expect to see positive ROI from these investments. Marketers who are already seeing ROI tend to invest more in data, be more optimistic about personalization efforts, and rely on more diverse sources of customer data than those who have not realized returns yet. Continued investment in data and demonstrating ROI internally will be important for success in 2015 according to the survey results.
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The document discusses how credit departments can enable sales growth through three strategies: 1) Prescreening accounts and enabling instant credit decisions to shorten sales cycles, 2) Reducing credit holds and finding upsell opportunities by taking a proactive risk-based approach, and 3) Optimizing customer portfolios and segmenting them to identify the profile of the best customers for targeting. The presentation provides examples of how each strategy can be implemented, such as enabling prescreening and instant credit decisions directly in CRM systems, using corporate family information to identify upsell opportunities, and creating a best customer profile based on factors like industry, size, and credit scores.
This document provides a guide for heads of marketing on implementing big data projects. It defines big data and discusses collecting the right data sources, engaging stakeholders, turning data into insights, optimizing marketing programs, contextualizing communications, and measuring business performance. The key steps are to focus on solving business problems, engage the right stakeholders, ensure the technology can provide insights and optimize programs, and structure data to meet user needs and metrics.
In partnership with a leading global technology analyst firm, Dun & Bradstreet commissioned a new study to examine how Customer Data Management (CDM) impacts business development and overall performance. This exclusive study proves that smart CDM is essential for driving growth and staying ahead of the data explosion
Greiner's Growth Curve model identifies five phases of growth that a company passes through: 1) Creativity, 2) Direction, 3) Delegation, 4) Coordination, and 5) Collaboration. Each phase has a period of stability and evolution that ends with a period of crisis or turmoil that must be resolved for the company to progress to the next phase. The model helps understand organizational problems companies may face during rapid growth periods.
The document is a magazine from Walter Analytics that discusses digital analytics and trends. It contains the following key points:
- Shaun Ernst reports on the growth of analytics in 2014 and tools like Universal Analytics, Enhanced Ecommerce, and demographic segmenting that provide more insights.
- Neil Walter discusses how to optimize pay-per-click acquisition through Google AdWords, noting it generated over $50 billion in 2013. Testing, refinement and constant innovation are key to success.
- Personalized content and real-time personalization using browser data is becoming more widely adopted by companies like Dropbox and Google to target messages to users.
The panelists discussed challenges with analyzing trade promotion data from multiple sources and integrating that data to generate insights. Typical issues include data quality problems, different data definitions and formats between systems, and a lack of integration. Moving along the data and analytics continuum from descriptive to predictive to prescriptive analytics can help organizations overcome these challenges and improve collaboration both internally and with trading partners. This allows data to provide visibility into retail execution and drive prioritization of issues.
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It’s no secret that the marketing landscape is changing faster than ever. Savvy marketers use this relentless pace to their advantage, testing, experimenting and optimizing their way to the top.
As data proliferates at a dizzying rate, marketing’s age-old questions haven’t changed. Agile marketing is, at heart, a way to answer and act on these fundamental questions at the speed and scale of modern marketing. And it mandates a new approach to measurement—one based on speed, iteration and business-building insights.
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Tara Grehan - Managing Director at Datalytics
Why Marketers need to know about Data
Tara Grehan - Managing Director at Datalytics
Despite starting out as a qualitative researcher, roles and projects frequently brought me back to data. And so I decided to tackle it and have developed some interesting insights into data management along the way.
Having worked in Marketing both agency and client side for fifteen years now in a variety of roles from Market Research and Customer Insights to Change Management, being comfortable with data has made all the difference and this evening I’ll tell you why.
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Michael Waldron - Marketing and Sales Manager at AYLIEN
AYLIEN is an Artificial Intelligence content analysis startup and Mike will be speaking on their growth journey over the past 6 months. With a focus on how they have delivered growth by optimising their budget, focusing on Data Points that matter and what to points to obsess on through the marketing funnel.
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The emergence of Big Data and Analytics has changed the way marketing decisions are made. Marketing has moved away from traditional ‘generalisation’ practices such as customer segmentation, geographical targeting etc. and is focussing more on the individual – the ‘Chief Executive Customer’.
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Data is the DNA behind the robust analytics and insights supporting modern organizations to recognize new products, determine how to serve customers better, and enhance operational efficiencies.
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1. Marketers need answers to what is working, what isn't working, and why. However, most solutions only provide limited insights that marketers don't fully trust.
2. To gain a complete picture, marketers must evaluate the entire customer journey beyond just marketing touchpoints, using holistic and unified data from across the customer experience.
3. Marketers also need to measure success using broader financial metrics like revenue and profitability, not just initial conversions, and optimize for customer lifetime value over single transactions.
Target Better, Nurture Better and Close Better. Learn how Dun & Bradstreet data within Oracle Cloud can help businesses grow relationships and revenue.
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Simon Nash argues that engagement should not be treated as a sideshow but rather integrated into the overall marketing plan and customer experience to drive tangible business results. He advocates moving beyond a focus on engagement metrics like likes and followers toward a "narrative led" approach of strategic storytelling across channels over the long term. Successful engagement requires understanding audiences, crafting valuable content, and supporting transformation through culture and processes to influence customer behavior and actions that benefit the organization.
Business success through data driven insightsJeffrey Evans
This document discusses how businesses can leverage customer data to gain insights and succeed. It provides the following key points:
1. Businesses need a clearly defined data strategy aligned with business objectives to effectively use customer data. This includes having analytical skills both internally and accessing external expertise.
2. Data has become a primary tool for understanding customers, their needs, and predicting demand. However, many businesses have not optimized their data strategy and implementation.
3. Successful data-driven businesses have the right mix of internal and external resources, including data analysts with commercial and analytical skills connected to business goals. Leadership influences the organization to effectively infuse data-driven insights.
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Great processes are essential for business growth and scaling. As a business grows, relying on intuition alone won't work and clear, standardized processes are needed across all departments like sales, production, communication and operations. These processes reduce complexity and friction so a business can focus on its core functions. Processes must be designed with scaling in mind from the start to avoid problems that can outpace growth. Digital tools can help create scalable, efficient processes.
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Find out:
Why nearly a third of IT Directors feel their organisation uses data poorly
What the hybrid data manager of the future will look like
Why understanding customer behaviour remains the holy grail for so many
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The enterprise marketer's playbook: Building an integrated data strategy.
An integrated data strategy can help any business see customer journeys more clearly ― and then give customers more relevant ads and experiences that get results. So why doesn't everyone have such a strategy? We look at what sets the marketing leaders apart.
Let marketing data be your guide
If you've ever felt too swamped by data to find the customer insights you need, you're not alone. But there's a new and better approach to gaining deeper audience insights: building an integrated data strategy.
Read this report to learn how:
86% of senior executives agree that eliminating organizational silos is critical to expanding the use of data and analytics in decision-making.
75% of marketers agree that lack of education and training on data and analytics is the biggest barrier to more business decisions being made based on data insights.
Leading marketers are 59% more likely to use digital analytics to optimize the user experience in real time.
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This document provides guidance on how to build a company's data DNA by establishing key metrics, gathering both quantitative and qualitative data, and using that information to optimize business performance through experimentation and A/B testing. It emphasizes the importance of identifying a single "guiding light" metric that defines business goals and can be used to prioritize optimization efforts. The document also outlines how to map customer journeys and core conversion funnels in order to determine high-value areas of a website or product to test. It recommends using qualitative user research to identify major roadblocks or weaknesses before developing hypotheses for A/B tests aimed at improving conversion rates and the guiding metric.
The document discusses building an integrated data strategy for marketing. It describes the challenges of accessing and integrating large amounts of customer data from various online and offline sources. An integrated data strategy can help marketers gain a complete view of customer journeys across channels to deliver more personalized experiences. The document outlines three pillars of an effective integrated data strategy: having the right data, culture, and technology. It emphasizes using data to guide marketing decisions rather than relying solely on intuition.
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Marketing & Sales
Big Data, Analytics,
and the Future of
Marketing & Sales
March 2015
3McKinseyonMarketingandSales.com @McK_MktgSales
Table of contents
Business
Opportunities
Insight and
action
How to get
organized and
get started
8 Getting big impact from big
data
16 Big Data & advanced
analytics: Success stories
from the front lines
20 Use Big Data to find
new micromarkets
24 Smart analytics: How
marketing drives short-term
and long-term growth
30 Putting Big Data and
advanced analytics to work
34 Know your customers
wherever they are
38 Using marketing analytics to
drive superior growth
48 How leading retailers turn
insights into profits
56 Five steps to squeeze more
ROI from your marketing
60 Using Big Data to make
better pricing decisions
60 Marketing’s age of relevance 72 Gilt Groupe: Using Big Data,
mobile, and social media to
reinvent shopping
76 Under the retail microscope:
Seeing your customers for
the first time
80 Name your price: The power
of Big Data and analytics
84 Getting beyond the buzz: Is
your social media working?
90 How to get the most from big
data
94 Five Roles You Need on Your
Big Data Team
98 Want big data sales programs
to work? Get emotional
102 Get started with Big Data:
Tie strategy to performance
106 What you need to make Big
Data work: The pencil
110 Need for speed: Algorithmic
marketing and customer
data overload
114 Simplify Big Data – or it’ll be
useless for sales
54 McKinseyonMarketingandSales.com @McK_MktgSales
Introduction
Big Data is the biggest hame-changing opportunity for marketing and sales
since the Internet went mainstream almost 20 years ago. The data big bang
has unleashed torrents of terabytes about everything from customer behaviors
to weather patterns to demographic consumer shifts in emerging markets.
The companies who are successful in turning data into above-market growth
will excel at three things:
ƒ Using analytics to identify valuable business opportunities from the data to
drive decisions and improve marketing return on investment (MROI)
ƒ Turning those insights into well-designed products and offers that delight
customers
ƒ Delivering those products and offers effectively to the marketplace.
This goldmine of data represents a pivot-point moment for marketing and
sales leaders. Companies that inject big data and analytics into their operation
show productivity rates and profitability that are 5 percent to 6 percent hight
than those of their peers. That’s an advantage no company can afford to
gnome.
This compendium explores the business opportunities, company examples,
and organizational implications of Big Data and advanced analytics. We hope
it provokes good and useful conversations.
Please contact us with your reactions and thoughts.
David Court
Director
David headed McKinsey’s
functional practices, and
currently leads the firm’s digital
in.
This document discusses how data science can help solve problems in marketing. It provides examples of common marketing problems such as customer segmentation, predictive modeling, personalization, optimization, and A/B testing. It then explains how data science techniques like analyzing customer data can help companies develop more effective marketing strategies by providing insights into customer behavior and preferences. Specifically, data science allows companies to identify customer segments, predict future behaviors, deliver personalized messages, maximize marketing efforts, and test strategies. Overall, the document argues that data science is a useful tool for marketing because it can help companies make more informed decisions by analyzing customer data.
Predictive marketing is a data-driven process that uses customer data to build predictive models and send personalized messages. It helps identify in-market buyers earlier, improve engagement over the customer lifecycle, and increase conversion rates. The document discusses how predictive marketing works, leveraging various data sources to send targeted messages. It also provides best practices such as starting small, testing predictive approaches, and maintaining human touch.
Six steps to revenue boosting lead generation programsJaslynn joan
Here are six steps B2B marketers can take to enhance their lead generation programs.
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1) Data is a strategic lever and fundamental building block for driving organizational growth. Companies typically grow through market expansion, new buyers, new offerings, acquisitions, and productivity.
2) Marketers face challenges in understanding market opportunities, matching customer personas to contacts, assessing the impact of new offerings and acquisitions, and optimizing processes.
3) The top priorities for contact data management are acquiring new contacts and cleansing front-end and back-end data to improve data quality and downstream performance metrics.
This document discusses how business leaders must be able to access and analyze internal business data quickly to gain insights that support better decision-making. It states that data alone does not create impacts; data must be analyzed and visualized to derive insights. When organizations align their resources and processes around these fact-based insights, they can respond to the market effectively and profitably. The document introduces the "House in Order" process which helps companies obtain rapid, actionable insights from their internal data to improve performance.
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AN EASY-TO-IMPLEMENT BUSINESS
GUIDE IN FIVE SIMPLE STAGES
2. • INTRODUCTION
• OVERVIEW
• FIVE STEPS
1. HOW TO MAKE DATA A HABIT
2. DO YOU HAVE THE DATA TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION?
3. MIND THE GAPS!
4. COMMIT TO DATA QUALITY
5. MARKETING TECHNOLOGY – MASTERING THE COMPLEXITY
• CONCLUSION
• CONTACT US
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3. INTRODUCTION
If you’re reading this, you already know that building a data-
driven marketing strategy is an essential business priority. You
know that being able to find, analyse, organise and use the wealth
of information available to you in competitive markets is a vital
component of driving commercial success. You know it can give you a
distinctive edge.
The good news is that, now more than ever, the ability to build your
own data driven marketing strategy is within the reach of most
companies. But there are pitfalls. Without truly understanding the
data you have, the data you need, the technology you use and the
other issues considered in these pages, your data is likely to remain a
source of unfulfilled potential.
In this e-book, Occam outlines five essential stages that will set you
on the right path to implementing your own, effective data driven
marketing strategy.
Each easy to follow section explores and explains the key steps that
will enable you to make the most of your marketing potential. Think
of it as a helping hand in avoiding what, in our long experience, are
the common pitfalls, to arrive at a strategy that delivers what every
business really needs from its data: actionable insight.
Finally, a caveat. Data is a fast-changing industry. So for the latest
insights and current thinking, stay up to date here/please watch our
space!
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4. NOW IS THE RIGHT TIME
At Occam, we believe that now is the time
for businesses to create their own powerful
new insights by embracing data driven
marketing principles. This is fuelled by need
to meet consumer expectations of relevant
and engaging customer experiences, the
advancement of marketing technology which
is making it simpler to embrace and more
accessible from an investment perspective,
and the proof that those organisations
that can grasp the opportunities offered by
data will outperform laggards in terms of
customer retention, acquisitions and stronger
engagement.
OV E R V I E W
Data is the basis of knowledge and
actionable intelligence. It can be
leveraged to reveal important insights
that support better decision-making and
through an iterative cycle of test and
learn, help build awareness that make
future actions more effective.
In a generation, the world has moved
on from selling virtually everyone the
same products and services to fulfilling
individual needs and tasks through
customised offerings. Part of the reason
for this quantum shift is data and the
insights it enables.
There are many reasons why data-driven marketing is
much more than just another buzzword.
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5. DATA EXPANSION VERSUS QUALITY
Despite these driving forces a number of barriers can impede
organisations in their pursuit of data driven marketing, not least the
explosion in the volume and variety of data that is now accessible.
In 2013, the world’s data could have been held on a stack of iPads
stretching two-thirds of the way to the Moon. By 2020, it is predicted
that hypothetical stack could make the trip 6.5 times over. This
expansion creates problems as it is estimated that only 37% of that
data will actually help business processes, let alone marketing.
This leads on to the quality of data and its usefulness. One recent
survey found that 60% of consumers deliberately provide inaccurate
information when registering online.
Average figures show that companies lost 12% of their revenues as
a result. Clearly, consumers lack trust in handing over their data to
businesses.
YOUR OWN STRATEGY
IN FIVE EASY STEPS
Against these challenges, Occam is pleased to offer a detailed five-
stage strategy for effective data-driven marketing.
To get up and running, we suggest you consider the following points
carefully:
• Make data your habit: setting business goals by starting with the
question “do we have the data to answer that?”
• Look at your data landscape: audit your data landscape for
content, quality and usefulness. Then analyse the gap between
the data landscape you have and the insight you need
• Fill your data gaps: develop strategies to gather and generate the
data you need for informed decision making - and bear in mind
that today’s savvy customers will expect something valuable in
exchange
• Commit to Quality: invest in the people, processes and technology
that can deal with the issues and turn your data into a valuable
asset
• Turn to Technology: finally, leverage technology to help you
master the beast and turn raw data into valuable insight
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7. HOW TO MAKE DATA A HABIT
Turning data into a habit is the essential first step on any data-driven
marketing journey.
This step requires you to decide the driving factors for all data-led
decisions by asking yourself what your Key Performance Indicators
will be? Are you looking solely at sales figures? Is acquisition your
focus above all others? Or is it just as important to address attrition
and execute better cross and up-sell strategies? What about customer
engagement and delivering exceptional customer experiences that
impact brand perception? Answering these questions is fundamental.
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8. DEFINE WHAT IS IMPORTANT
In effect we are looking at clearly defining
the outcomes expected from any investment
in marketing activity so that a framework for
evaluating Return on Investment (ROI) can
be developed. The age old cliché of “What
gets measured gets done” is largely true,
however you must also ensure that you set
the correct KPI’s aligned to business goals in
order to respect the maxim of William Bruce
Cameron: “Not everything that can be counted
counts, and not everything that counts can be
counted”.
One of the techniques we use in Occam to
help with this process is the KPI Tree. In effect
this involves identifying the top level goal and
identifying the underlying factors that influence
this. A simple example of this is shown
below. In this example the goal is to increase
the number of active Independent Financial
Advisor’s (IFA) that an organisation has on its
books:
KPI
Number of NEW
IFA’s recruited in
term
+
x
METRIC
Size of the TARGET
IFA Market
Given that the market of IFA’s is mostly out
of the control the organisation, the size of
the target market is therefore a metric the
business should track but not one it can actually
influence. The % Conversion on the other hand
is to some degree in the control of the business,
where through its marketing, recruitment and
sales efforts, it can improve its conversion of
leads to partners.
Following this process across all of the nodes
(data points) of the Tree, the process identifies
all of the core metrics and influencers that
affect the KPI’s and objectives the business is
aiming to deliver. Identifying these measures
and acknowledging the need to track and
monitor them is key part of becoming more
data driven in your marketing, because you
are beginning to use data to help benchmark
progress and validate the activities
being undertaken.
In this case, there are only two ways to get
more IFA’s:
1. The business either increases its sales and
marketing efforts to find and win new
partners;
2. Or it boosts its efforts to retain and keep
existing IFA’s active.
For new IFA’s, there are only two ways to
increase the number the business recruits in a
given term:
1. Increase the size of the target audience
2. Or increase conversion rates.
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9. MAKE DATA ACCESSIBLE AND VISIBLE
Outside of KPI’s and tracking progress against
ROI, for data to truly become a habit it needs
to be readily accessible. This can be in the
form of raw underlying data to help inform
a decision, or the outcome of data insights
published in dashboards and tracking reports.
Data integration is a key enabler for this to
be successful and also one of the biggest
challenges for many businesses today, along
with technology interoperability issues. A
survey run by Winterberry Group cited data
integration as being key to helping with the
move to more data-driven marketing activity
In addition, making data visible throughout
the business is essential. This raises its profile
and through good visualisation approaches can
make data readily understandable and useful.
Whilst technology is of course, important here,
ensuring the right people and processes are
geared up to support a data integration and
visibility agenda for any organisation is also
critical.
DEVELOP YOUR DATA STRATEGY
When you start to surface data across your
business, it is essential that it is trusted, well
managed and understood. Taking steps to
implement an organisation-wide data strategy
is vital to ensure that aspects such as quality,
consistency, governance and availability are
considered, managed and executed across
the organisation. The key to managing this is
to start on the areas of the business that are
directly related to the objectives you are trying
to achieve; start small, get buy-in and then
build out from there.
There are strong reasons for creating cross-
functional working groups focused around
a specific data challenge. It’s a great way of
encouraging collaboration and breaking down
internal barriers between different functions
to ensure that internal skills and expertise are
shared.
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10. AND ON AND ON…
Evidence shows that it takes 61 days to form a habit (not the 21 days
often cited). The result is behaviours that become ingrained in day-to-
day activity. Following the principles of Tom Bartow’s model of habit
formation can be useful when tackling data driven marketing:
1. “Honeymoon” - recognise the “honeymoon” period; when things
feel easy and everything is good. Exploit this to push activities
through and gain initial traction.
2. “Fight Thru” - this is where bad old habits start to come to the
fore and things just feel difficult. To overcome this, Tom suggests
you need to recognise this stage is normal, go back to the key
questions that drove the change in the first place to remind
yourself why you started on the path and then visualise successful
outcomes to focus on the end goal, rather than the barriers and
challenges.
3. “Second Nature” – if you navigate the “fight thru” stage then
eventually it will become the norm. However, disruptions from
business change and small failures knocking confidence can
undermine achieving the goal. That’s when it becomes key to
“fight thru” and continue on the path to data driven.
Taking these first steps on the path to data-driven marketing will help
you to establish the important metrics and make use of data to track
your progress and inform your subsequent actions. You’ll know when
that step has been taken because what the data tells you will become
as important as your own experience and personal intuition. You can
then weave these facets together to deliver better decision-making
that ultimately benefits your marketing activity.
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11. DO YOU HAVE THE DATA TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION?
When making decisions in a data driven
business, the starting point is, and should
always be to ask yourself - “Do we have the
data to answer that?”
Asking this question regularly will drive the
analysis of the data landscape a brand operates
in. This in itself will provide many of
the answers. Going further, for all brands and
marketers in today’s increasingly data-driven
marketplace, analysing the data, documenting
it and maintaining a detailed Data Landscape
Definition (DLD) should be a priority aim before
any further decisions are made.
ASK YOURSELF, WHAT IS A DLD?
At its simplest, a DLD visually represents each
discrete data system, the core attributes and
entities that are present and the interactions
and data exchanges between them; offering
a holistic overview of the collective data
landscape a business has access to. Taken to
the nth degree, it can comprise an overview
of the organisation (including its divisions and
departments), a detailed description of each
system, those managing and handling data, and
the logical design of the systems and a regular
audit of the data held.
But no DLD exists in isolation and there is
no right or wrong approach. It has to be
accommodated into general business and
marketing practice and reflect the objectives
of the organisation it operates in, plus its
business goals, people and processes. These
might include: longer-term business goals; key
people; personal data processing; and industry
standards.
To develop this definition and underpin all data-based decisions
across the business, marketers and key decision-makers should
aim to answer the following four key questions:
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12. ASK YOURSELF, WHY DO IT?
Simply put, if you don’t understand your data
landscape, then you are unlikely to understand
all your data. And if you don’t understand all
your data, you are unlikely to be executing
effective marketing, product development or
business strategies - potentially leading to some
fundamental and costly mistakes.
At its core, a DLD allows a business to
understand the big picture and ensure relevant
data is flowing freely in a timely manner to the
relevant point of use. But at the granular
level, it furnishes decision-makers with a point
of reference with which to make informed
decisions and ensure they are doing things
correctly to meet business objectives and long-
term strategic goals.
This is becoming increasingly relevant as
we edge ever nearer to the landing of the
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
updates and the upcoming Privacy & Electronic
Communications Regulation (PECR) overhaul.
ASK YOURSELF, HOW TO DEFINE A DATA LANDSCAPE?
Think of your DLD as a living, breathing
representation of your data ecosystem that
continues to evolve with your business in a
format that suits its ever-changing needs. It is
easily broken down through a simple checklist:
• Start with a straightforward inventory.
Define the divisions, departments and third
parties that comprise your data landscape
and identify which are relevant to the
overarching objective you are undertaking
this activity to support.
• Identify the systems used by each division
and department. And be comprehensive!
• Identify where these systems are shared
and how information is exchanged
• For each system, define the primary inputs
and outputs and then take this further, and
define the method of data capture for each
• Understand the system entities, e.g. is the
system account, customer or email-centric?
Does it include contact details? And how
well populated is the data?
By examining each of these, the outputs can
help decision-makers to understand the internal
relationships between the systems, processes
and the data they produce and use that insight
to drive decision-making at a strategic level.
After all, the quality of your data (in terms
of relevancy and accuracy) and the integrity/
authority of your data is key to business and
marketing success.
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13. The GDPR is here, noting that even with Brexit,
UK businesses who want to trade with Europe
will still need to meet a minimum standard. The
honeymoon period has started and by May 25
2018 your house needs to be in order.
There is a quiet, and growing, concern that
the direct marketing industry’s very own
‘PPI bonanza’ will be borne from GDPR.
So we should be acting now to avoid that
risk. Companies are already starting the
journey towards compliance and a detailed
understanding of a data landscape is a key
starting point to that.
Additionally, the upcoming Privacy & Electronic
Communications Regulation (PECR) overhaul
will also necessitate that organisations
understand what data they have and how it
flows within their business.
For the data aspects of GDPR and PECR, the
Data Landscape Definition can provide much
of the ‘as-is’. GDPR and PECR define the ‘to-be’.
Compliance, then, comes down to identifying,
understanding and filling the gaps.
So the question really is not ‘Why do it?’, but
‘Why wouldn’t you?’
ASK YOURSELF,
WHY WOULDN’T YOU DO IT?
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14. MIND THE GAPS!
Having explained how data can be made into
a habit and the important concept of data
landscapes, the next step is to find what to do
if any of the answers to the second point – “do
we have the data?” – are ‘no’.
Data gaps come in many forms, from
incomplete personal information (e.g. missing
DOBs, where you like to holiday, size of
household), to incomplete transactional data
(e.g. we know how you use one of our products,
but what about the rest?); to organisational
gaps (e.g. Customer Services know your car
breaks down on the M6 once every year, but
no-one has told Marketing).
Now more than ever, what you collect is
inextricably linked to how you collect it and as
such that is the focus of this stage.
Recently, Occam’s sister company Amaze One
researched how consumers feel about the way
brands handle their personal data. You can
explore the results here, but the picture that
emerged was one of disaffected consumers,
tired of handing over data for what they
perceive as very little in return.
WHY THE VALUE EXCHANGE MAT TERS
This imbalance in the value exchange has been
masked by the fact that brands keep asking for
data and consumers keep sharing it. So if they
are still sharing, where is the evidence that
consumers feel short-changed?
The growth in use of tools such as Google’s
preferences on Chrome and Gmail is one
pointer. Increases in adblocking, which grew
globally by 90% between 2015 and 2016, are
another. Amaze One’s research tells us that 70%
of consumers are concerned about the way
personal information is collected, while 4 out
of 5 have concerns about the way their data is
sourced, captured and sold.
Consumers, it seems, haven’t been offering
data because they feel an overbearing need
to share. They’ve been accepting the release
of a bare minimum of personal data out of
resignation – hardly the basis for a great
relationship!
Creating a better value exchange matters if
we are to reverse the growing numbers of
consumers ‘punishing’ brands. It matters
because more data – and more valuable data
- comes from a better value exchange in your
data capture strategy. And it matters because,
in a potential post-GDPR world where we want
consumers to give brands permission to engage,
we need to give them better reasons to do so.
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15. HOW TO CREATE A BET TER VALUE EXCHANGE
How do brands encourage consumers to part with more and better information willingly?
1. Start with trust
Overwhelmingly, consumers said elements
such as trust and control mattered most.
There were variances depending on age,
however, the natural levels of mistrust
(particularly among older age groups)
showed that, before offers can make an
impact, brands first need to establish these
hygiene factors. So transparency in opt-
ins, permissions and deleting data is an
essential first step.
2. Treat data as a privilege, not a right
Once permission to engage has been given,
brands should listen to what the consumer
has said and give them what they have
asked /signed up for.
Cyclical audits of the data lifecycle, from
initial collection through to profiling, should
drive content and communications and
explore opportunities to educate and build
trust as a precursor to filling data gaps.
3. One size does not fit all
What you offer in return for the declaration
of data by customers should take account
of what is most valued (by them, not
you). What works varies by age, sex and
affluence, so it is essential for brands to use
attitudinal data to create a value exchange
segmentation that can be applied to
customers and enquirers alike.
4. Avoid appearing mechanical
or cynical
Every communication should have a point,
implicitly demonstrating to consumers
that you are valuing, not exploiting, their
permission to engage.
How do brands enable these strategies? They
do it by investing in the people, processes and
technology that can turn data into a valuable
asset. That will be the subject of step four in this
series which looks at data quality.
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16. MEANWHILE, HERE ARE 3 SIMPLE DATA
GATHERING STRATEGIES THAT CAN
CREATE A BET TER VALUE EXCHANGE:
1. Make opt-ins and permissions big, bold and obvious: Transparent
opt-ins build trust and enhance feelings of control. Don’t hide them in
the small print. Make them a feature, not an afterthought.
2. Only ask for what you need: Consumers can’t feel in control of
a relationship where they’re asked for large amounts of seemingly
unrelated and irrelevant information. Relevance helps build trust.
3. Make it progressive: Build your data capture strategy in proportion
to your developing relationship. So instead of asking for everything up
front in a move perceived as a cynical data grab, start with the bare
minimum, and build the data pool over time.
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17. COMMIT TO DATA QUALITY
Few would argue that, when it comes to data-
driven marketing, the quality of the data is an
obvious essential. But what do we mean by
‘data quality’?
Simply put, quality data is data that you can use
with confidence for its intended purpose. As
such, data quality means taking the necessary
steps to ensure that data is accurate, valid and
consistent, but also complete (you have all
that is necessary to meet the need) and readily
accessible in a timely fashion.
For marketing, the primary intended purpose of
data is to help the business develop customer
understanding. This can then be used to power
a better customer experience and, therefore,
ultimately achieve acquisition, retention, cross-
sell and satisfaction targets. Similarly, marketers
turn to data to help them identify which
marketing activities are driving the best results
when compared to the costs and investment
required to undertake them. As such, data
quality for marketing should be primarily
focused on those areas that directly impact
understanding customers and the performance
of marketing activities.
WHY BOTHER?
Poor quality data gets in the way of these core
marketing objectives. How can you deliver a
consistent, personalised customer experience
if you don’t trust the data and associated
customer insight that shape it? If poor quality
data leads to the wrong conclusion, how
will that experience impact on the client’s
perception of your brand? In a recent Experian
report, 75% of organisations stated that
inaccurate data was undermining their ability
to provide excellent customer experience - a
depressing statistic.
Similarly, if poor quality data prevents you from
identifying the best performing activities from
the poorest, you will continue to spend money
in the wrong places, squandering budget and
leading to difficult questions from the business.
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18. 1: IDENTIFY YOUR STARTING POINT
Take stock of the current state of your data
and the impact it is having on your business.
Start by identifying the core data you need to
support the business objectives you have by
defining your data landscape as we discussed
earlier . Once you have this, then come the
activities to audit the data those systems hold
and identify how fit for purpose they may be.
Data profiling technology is a great help here.
It assists you in identifying the key attributes
of your data, such as per cent populated,
accuracy, duplication and patterns in data error.
Alternatively, you could partner with a specialist
who undertakes this activity for you and who
may also be able to help you contextualise the
extent of the issues and opportunities in your
business by providing a comparison with others
they have worked with.
You also need to identify the benefits that
could be realised if the data issues were
addressed. This could be in terms of saving
costs (for example, eliminating constant ad-
hoc data correction), increasing revenue
(for example, through better customer
understanding delivering better targeting), or
indeed softer benefits (for example, removal of
manual, repetitive tasks that impact employee
satisfaction). Key to this activity is working with
the business stakeholders that will benefit from
better quality data.
There are a number of practical steps that you can take to
tackle the data quality challenge head on:
H O W D O W E
TA C K L E I T?
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19. 2: PLAN, PRIORITISE AND MANAGE
Once you understand the current state and the potential benefits, it is
possible to start to define and prioritise activities by comparing them
to your overarching objectives.
Categorise the data quality activities in terms of their alignment to
objectives and the costs to undertake and the benefit they yield.
Aim to focus initially on those activities that are low cost but likely to
deliver a high degree of benefits aligned to your goals.
When you have this view, you can then start to work through the
activities, but not before you determine how you will manage the
initiatives going forward. Key to this will be in getting the appropriate
technology, people and processes in place to support data quality.
• Technology: key capabilities essential to an ongoing programme
of data quality are data integration and transformation, master
data management and data profiling. In essence, find technology
that helps to make data readily accessible and allows you to
manipulate it as required by business needs. Similarly adopt
technology that allows for master definitions of data to be
agreed and then enforced throughout your business. Finally
embrace technology that will help you with the ongoing
statistical evaluation of data, essential to understand issues and
opportunities within your data..
• People: creation of a cross-functional working group comprising
representatives from the areas of the business that contributed to
the benefits review and those that are likely to be involved in the
execution of data quality initiatives. This group will be responsible
for controlling the execution of the data quality plan. An executive
level sponsor should also be assigned to give it senior level
support.
• Process: creation of a governance framework and measurement
strategy that embeds the data quality initiatives within the
organisation and operationalises the activity.
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20. 3: DO. REVIEW. LEARN. REPEAT
Once you have a plan and a view of how to manage its execution, the next step is to start
progressing your initiatives. The essential element of this stage is to review results using the
measurement strategy within your governance framework, comparing actual impacts with those
that were expected and refining activities to focus on the elements most important to
the business.
Where marketing is trailblazing data quality
within the organisation, it’s likely that you
will face resistance and may need to rapidly
prove some value before the business commits
to fully going down the path of data quality
management. In this situation, the key is to
start small. Pick the easiest issue to solve that
offers the greatest benefit and do the minimum
needed to ensure you can control the initiative.
Then use the resulting benefits to support
your business case for a broader, more
comprehensive approach to data quality
management. After all, data quality needs
commitment. Without the organisational
structure to support quality, and without
investment in people, process and technology,
your data quality objectives can’t be met.
But with commitment and investment, every
organisation can turn the data it has into the
data it needs.
4:C O M M I T T I N G
TO Q UA L I T Y
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21. 5: MARKETING TECHNOLOGY
– MASTERING THE COMPLEXITY
Making good use of marketing technology may be a challenge to many. However, it is the final
stage in putting together and implementing an efficient date-driven marketing strategy that
produces results. You have a wealth of options.
Core technical capabilities
Three core capabilities should guide your data-driven marketing technology strategy:
1) Bringing together and optimising data for marketing
2) Transforming data into insights; and
3) Making insights actionable by enabling decisions to be made, automated and ultimately
orchestrated across channels to deliver an optimised customer experience
PRESENT DATA
Decisioning View
PRESENT DATA
Insight View
Underpinning these capabilities is the concept of integration. Data must be made accessible for
it to reveal insights. Insights must be made accessible to facilitate decisions, and decisions must
be made accessible to result in meaningful customer touch points. Each of these is essential for
delivering actionable insight, the foundation stone for data-driven marketing.
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22. M A K I N G T H E
C O M P L E X A
L I T T L E B I T
S I M P L E R
Selecting technology to provide these capabilities can feel
like a daunting task. With latest counts suggesting close to
6,000 vendors of marketing technology, the choice may seem
bewildering. Yet a little common sense (and a methodical
approach) can make this complexity feel simpler.
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23. Step 1: Assign ownership for technology strategy
Depending on the size of your organisation, this could be a single individual, or a cross-functional
working group headed by a dedicated Marketing Technologist. Either way, involving your internal
IT teams is key, as is having someone with the ability to understand the worlds of marketing and
technology. If you struggle to identify a suitable internal candidate to head this up, then consider
bringing in specialist external support to kick-start your strategy.
Step 2: Agree your guiding principles
Your guiding principles form the bedrock of your technology purchasing strategy.
Some key principles to address include:
• Do you choose a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)/Cloud system, or host it yourself?
• ‘Best of breed’, or is ‘just enough’ good enough (i.e. will you take 70% of what you need for a
quicker implementation with reduced costs, or only settle for the full 100%)?
• Do architectural constraints exist? Legacy systems? Does IT mandate a Microsoft-based
infrastructure? What does your new technology need to integrate with?
One principle that Occam always advise our clients to follow is to focus on software that satisfies
the concept of “Loosely Coupled Open Systems”:
i) Open System technology means the vast
majority of functionality and data can be
used and accessed via other technologies.
These Application Programming Interfaces
(API) might, for example, include outbound
campaign management technology that
could instruct an email platform to send
emails, a mobile messaging platform to
send SMS and a print production system to
create and send direct mail packs. They will
then tell those systems to pass back any
interaction/response data. Open system
technology is essential for automation and
integration of different capabilities.
ii) Loosely Coupled means that integration
between applications should be achievable
in a way that allows for one application to
be swapped out for another with minimal
effort. This is essential to enable technology
choices to evolve with changing consumer
needs and behaviours. The only challenge
is that loose coupling can be extremely
hard to achieve in practice and is often
dependent on middleware that may be in
the hands of IT.
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24. Step 3: Recognize what you already have
You’re probably already using a wealth of technology, either directly within the marketing
department, or within other areas of the business. In our experience, a technology audit often
highlights where businesses are licensing multiple technologies that provide the same core
features.
If you have undertaken a Data Landscape Definition, then you already have a great starting point to
map out your technology. However, be sure to look outside the boundaries of marketing across the
entire business landscape as you might just find a nugget of gold.
Step 4: Categorise the good, the bad and the ugly
Every company needs a consistent way of evaluating the technology they have against business
needs (including those guiding principles). A framework such as the TIME model from Gartner can
be a useful way to tackle this activity. It compares the technical capability and business value of
software, then categorises it under one of 4 treatments:
TOLERATE: Continue to maintain. Technically
sound, but business workarounds may be
needed to operate
INVEST: Continue to maintain & enhance.
Meets technical and business needs
MIGRATE: Consider replacement/upgrade.
Meets business needs but requires technical
improvement (if feasible)
ELIMINATE: Consider decommissioning. Fails to
meet technical and business needs
Do this will enable you to understand
the key areas you need to make
changes in and also the technologies
and partnerships that represent
cornerstone investments.
great
poor
TechinicalCondition
Business Value
low high
Tolerate Invest
Eliminate Migrate
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25. Step 5: Focus on your investments
Integration is the key principle underpinning
data driven marketing technology and the
3 core capabilities we believe are essential.
Yet integration can also be a problem cited
by 56% of marketers as the biggest obstacle
they encounter when pursuing data-driven
marketing activities.
There are ways to address this. Investing in
integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS)-
type propositions is one option (especially if
pursuing the “loosely couple” principle). But
if time, resource or budget constraints make
that unlikely, then once you have identified
your cornerstone investment technologies, you
could look to identify all the other technologies
that have pre-integrated with them. More
and more vendors are building ecosystems
out of connected third party applications.
For example, many BI/MI platform vendors
provide pre-built integration with marketing
applications such as CRM systems, digital
analytic platforms and social media monitoring
technologies. These make data from those
systems accessible for use in analysis and
reporting. Start by looking at your investment
technologies and identifying the integrated
options that exist across the technologies you
are looking to acquire.
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26. MORE STEPS TO FOLLOW,
BUT YOU SHOULD BE ON THE RIGHT PATH
By following the 5 steps above, you have begun to master the complexity of marketing
technology in your data-driven marketing strategy. Subsequent stages include documenting your
requirements, evaluating and selecting suppliers, implementing the technology and mastering the
organisational change needed to unlock their potential. All daunting tasks in their own right, but
with these foundations in place you will be well set-up to succeed and have a much clearer view of
your ultimate destination.
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27. Our experience suggests that many businesses
have only dipped their toes into the waters
of data driven marketing. Perhaps they
have become lost in the sheer volume of
information. Perhaps they have experimented
in a particular channel or business area, but
haven’t taken things further.
Yet there is so much more that businesses can
now do, so many more ways to unlock the full
benefits; a much greater opportunity to ‘do
data driven marketing properly’.
We hope this guide will encourage you to look
again at your data marketing strategy, help you
understand what you really need from it, and
give you the tools to develop a system that
matches your needs and can expand and adapt
as the future unfolds.
Because one thing is certain: the organisations
that know their data best, and can wield it most
effectively, will stand the greatest chance of
building long-lasting, trusting relationships with
their customers.
C O N C LU S I O N
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28. ABOUT US
For over two decades, Occam has been the
one stop shop for data-driven marketing. Our
experts work with organisations to tame data -
collating it, cleansing it, improving it and turning it
into information that helps businesses know their
customers better, so their communications achieve
better results.
We don’t work alone.
Together with digital marketing, technology and
commerce consultancy Amaze, we formed Amaze One, a
new breed of CRM agency, blending Occam’s data rigour
with Amaze’s creative magic. And as part of the St Ives
Group, we partner with specialists in retail and consumer
market strategy, consultancy and market research. The
result? Every aspect of your marketing, covered.
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