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The Future Of GenAI Is Increasingly Agentic
A key theme of Forrester’s recent B2B Summit APAC in Singapore was the need to break down silos within revenue processes and reimagine a customer-centric approach that aligns with the customer throughout the entire lifecycle. Learn how agentic AI is accelerating this transformation in three critical ways.
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What’s Top Of Mind For B2B CMOs In Asia Pacific
Last week, Mavis Liew and I had the pleasure of hosting Forrester’s B2B Peer Discussion session with a small group of CMOs from enterprises across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The private event format allowed an open and honest exchange about the challenges and opportunities these leaders were facing as they started planning their marketing budgets […]
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Keeping Ahead Of The Curve: How To Master European B2B Growth Amidst Challenges
European B2B marketers are charting their course through a multifaceted and shifting terrain. Confronted with fluctuating economic climates, inefficiencies in processes, data management hurdles, and recruitment challenges, these decision-makers are tasked with driving customer-obsessed growth through enhanced efficiency and a strong emphasis on innovation to stay ahead in the game. Delving into insights from Forrester’s […]
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The Funnel Is Old, Unrealistic, And Still Helpful
In 1898, Elias St. Elmo Lewis developed the advertising funnel. He was the Association of National Advertisers’ first president and, along with the funnel, developed the AIDA model, an acronym that models a consumer’s journey from awareness to interest, desire, and then action. More than 125 years after its conception, brand marketers are still planning […]
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Is GTM The New ABM? Or Is It Just The Latest B2B Land Grab?
Platform vendors and service providers previously associated with ABM are now adopting a different acronym. Attempting to profit on the GTM buzz could backfire.
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The Curtain Falls On GARM — Revealing Industrywide Brand Safety Issues
If you’ve ever seen The Wizard of Oz, you might remember the moment when Dorothy realizes the Wizard is not in fact all-powerful. He is just a man with a very loud voice. She also learns that she doesn’t need his power or magic to send her home — the power lies within herself. This […]
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Leverage Synergy To Stretch Your 2025 B2B Marketing Budget
Today, Forrester released our 2025 Budget Planning Guides. It’s always an exciting time when we gather survey data and insights from our client conversations to produce a set of collective recommendations that B2B marketing executives should consider for the year ahead. Read below for this year’s key planning guide highlights. Benchmark your current spending While […]
Make The Right Marketing Budget Moves In 2025
Need budget perspective? Watch our 2025 budget planning webinar to hear benchmarks and analyst advice on where to invest, divest, and experiment with your budget.
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B2B Summit APAC 2024: Transform Your Growth Engine
Learn what to expect at Forrester's premier event for B2B marketing, sales, and product leaders and teams in Asia Pacific this October.
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OK, AI, Buy Me Some Enterprise Software
If your buyers use generative AI to research your product and don’t put you on their shortlist, how would you even know? B2B buyers are rapidly adopting genAI, changing how they shop, so B2B companies need to start preparing for much smarter shoppers.
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Loyalty Service Providers Supercharge Loyalty Strategies
The Forrester Wave™: Loyalty Services, Q2 2024 is geared toward helping loyalty marketers vet the right service provider for their brand. Read a few of the takeaways.
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Real Talk With Ecosystem Partners: GTM Evolution
Early in my career, I received wise but tough coaching from a manager regarding struggles with a new colleague on a strategic project: Pull them aside and have a real, candid conversation with the pursuit of clarity and understanding for the sake of the shared vision and mutual success. The “real talk” that my colleague […]
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A Match Made In Plastic? Capital One’s Quest To Acquire Discover
Capital One’s plan to acquire Discover will change the shape of the financial services landscape (though not the fundamental forces that drive growth and success — but more on that later). To help you understand the implications of the proposed merger, Forrester took a deep dive into our research and data (full report for clients […]
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Call For Entries: Forrester B2B Summit APAC 2024 Awards
APAC B2B marketers: If you have a cross-functional alignment success story or have achieved exceptional results from a single function, we want to hear from you. Learn more about our B2B Summit APAC awards and how to apply.
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B2B Marketers Expect To Do More With More — But It’s Not As Good As It Sounds
Forrester's latest Marketing Survey shows that marketing executives and operations leaders anticipate budget increases this year. Capitalizing on this opportunity requires overcoming formidable challenges.
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Accelerating Advertising With AI Comes At A Cost
It’s mathematically obvious to apply AI to advertising, but its efficiencies can come at the expense of advertisers’ control and transparency. Learn more about how AI benefits the advertising process and why advertisers must curate AI.
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B2B Marketing Leaders Don’t Trust Their Measurement, And What They Measure Isn’t Helping
Nearly two-thirds of marketing leaders say that they don’t believe their measurement and analytics are well aligned with organizational objectives. A continued focus on marketing sourcing is emblematic of the problem — and it fails to show marketing's true value to the business.
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Is Your Strategy Failing You? Or Are You Failing Your Strategy?
The basic concept of a strategy is that it describes what an organization plans to do, and very importantly, it excludes the things that the organization doesn’t plan to do. But it’s not just the what that matters: It’s also the how. When I advise Forrester’s clients on how to think about their customer experience […]
Get More From Your 2025 B2B Marketing Budget
Synergy and collaboration will be key to making marketing investments go further. Download our 2025 B2B marketing Planning Guide to learn more.
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Why Brand And Reputation Programs Should Be More Than Just Air Cover
There’s more to planning and executing reputation programs than what we typically see at the usual “air cover” level. Learn more about the Forrester Reputation Program Decision Model in this preview of B2B Summit North America.
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What I Learned About GenAI From Over 100 Indian CMOs
Discussions with 100 CMOs and key marketing leaders in India revealed the massive transformation genAI is already bringing to many marketing organizations across the Indian subcontinent. Read some of their comments in this post.
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Unleashing Field Marketing To Drive Growth In Asia Pacific
We explore key findings for APAC from Forrester’s 2023 State Of B2B Field Marketing Survey to help organizations understand the state of field marketing regionally and what this means for the operation and organization of a future-ready field marketing organization.
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