For Marketing Leadership Professionals (Length: 14 pages)

November 29, 2007

What Keeps B2B CMOs Awake At Night?

Tactics And Execution Worries Outweigh Strategy and Innovation

by Laura Ramos

with Jaap Favier, Evadne Cokeh


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Top B2B marketing executives enjoy, or suffer from, a broad range of responsibilities spanning tactical execution to strategic visioning. Yet, it's the short-term issues that keep them awake at night. Future thinking and innovation get short shrift as CMOs scramble to fill the sales pipeline with leads, build their teams, establish standard processes, and demonstrate a return on the money they spend. B2B marketing leaders escape this revolving door when they automate their planning, budgeting, and daily operations to free up scarce resources and time with which to court customers and scan the horizon for new opportunities, strategies, and innovative marketing programs.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemExecution Worries Make B2B CMOs Toss And Turn

itemRewards Encourage Short-Term Perspectives

itemLack Of Digital Know-How And Processes Limit Future Thinking

itemCMOs Who Prioritize Marketing Strategy and Innovation Wake Refreshed

itemWell-Rested CMOs Earn Loyalty And Financial Benefits

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itemFour Steps To Make Strategy And Innovation A Priority

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester interviewed 33 vendor and user companies including Adobe Systems, Avaya, Cardinal Health, Cognizant Technology Solutions, LogicaCMG, Medica, PNC Financial Services Group, Sun Microsystems, and Sybase.

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Analyst: Laura Ramos
Technology: Acquisition Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, eBusiness/eCommerce, Marketing & Advertising, Marketing Automation, Marketing Organization & Culture, Marketing Planning, Packaged Applications
Industry: Business-To-Business eCommerce
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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