Forrester Decisions for B2B Marketing Executives

B2B organizations rely on the CMO to identify forces that create opportunities. You must move fast and build a strong coalition among your peers to move the business forward. In doing so, you’ll drive meaningful change, proactively engineer alignment, and harness the collective capabilities to ignite customer-obsessed growth.

Forrester Decisions for B2B Marketing Executives helps senior marketing leaders envision and execute a long-term marketing strategy that focuses the business on customer value through a proven strategic approach. With a combination of bold vision, curated tools and frameworks, and hands-on guidance, you’ll drive measurable impact on growth, retention, and advocacy.

Ignite Customer-Obsessed Growth

Align And Grow The Business

Deliver market and customer insights that help align the business and transform how it grows.

Enhance The Brand Experience

Build distinctive brand and communication strategies that drive awareness, perception, and preference for the business.

Showcase The Value Of Marketing

Demonstrate how marketing adds measurable, meaningful value to the business.

Key Priorities

As a B2B marketing executive, you’re under constant pressure to deliver on today’s initiatives while staying one step ahead of what’s coming tomorrow. Forrester Decisions for B2B Marketing Executives is tailored to help you address your most pressing priorities:

  • Formulate marketing strategy and drive transformation​.
  • Develop the annual marketing and investment plan.​
  • Shape the brand experience​.
  • Develop a corporate communications strategy. ​
  • Design and implement an integrated campaign strategy​.
  • Demonstrate marketing’s value to the business.
  • Create marketing structure and operating models that optimize performance.​

What’s Included In This Service

Forrester Decisions services are uniquely built to give you strategic insights for your role as a business leader in your organization and help you deliver on your functional role as a division or department leader. Here’s what’s inside:

Stay ahead of changing customer and market dynamics, plan for the future, and set your strategy with leading research. ​

  • Customer obsession research
  • Customer insights​
  • Trends and predictions​
  • Market forecasts​
  • Technology and service provider landscapes

Empower your team to conquer your priorities with proven strategic models and plug-and-play templates. ​

  • KPIs and peer benchmarks​
  • Assessments​
  • Strategic models​
  • Strategy templates​
  • Forrester Wave™ evaluations for your function
  • Certification courses

Accelerate progress and de-risk decisions with best practices tailored to you and your team​.

  • Guidance sessions​
  • Peer discussions
  • Event attendance​
  • Dedicated relationship management
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Support For Executives, Leaders, And Team Members

Forrester Decisions for B2B Marketing Executives offers multiple levels of service to ensure the right expertise and degree of support for you and your team. All service levels provide access to research, tools, data, and certification courses.

 

VIP Leader 

Leverage support from a trusted partner and former executive who understands your challenges and supports your strategic agenda every step of the way.

Availability may vary by geographic region.

Leader 

Procure deep expertise across your functional discipline through expert-led guidance sessions that help you apply unique research, tools, and data to your specific needs.

Team 

Develop a common language and toolset to strengthen your team’s expertise and skill sets with access to relevant certification courses and insights.

Meet A Few Of Our B2B Marketing Analysts

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Get in touch with our consultants to jump-start your initiative, execute on your B2B transformational strategies, or anything in between.


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Not All Alignment Is Equal: Achieve Alignment That Drives Growth

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Successful alignment is less about process and more about calibrating buyer value. Learn about the five dimensions that top organizations align on — and learn more at Forrester’s B2B Summit North America.
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Getting Buyer Experience Right Is A Must For B2B Organizations

Barbara Winters 4 days ago
B2B organizations excel at customer experience (CX), but they don’t apply the same discipline to the buyer experience. And with B2B buyers more savvy and demanding than ever, taking a CX approach to understanding and managing the buyer experience can be a competitive advantage. This blog post covers three things to consider when thinking through how to manage the buyer experience at your organization.
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Six Ways That B2B CMOs Can Make Customer Obsession Real

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It’s easy to buy into the idea of customer obsession — but putting it in action is hard, continuous work. Explore these concrete ways to bring customer obsession to life.
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Navigating Centralized Operations: A Guide For B2B Regional Leaders

Jerry Zhao 5 days ago
Modern marketing organizations are constantly changing and optimizing to stay competitive. We often see large corporations restructure their marketing functions from regionalized to central groups, from centralized to regional, or a certain level of hybrid. As a regional marketing leader, in any one of these states, the right mindset and capabilities to find balance and synergy are important to keep your team continuing to perform and shine. This blog shares quick thoughts for marketing executives and operations leaders in those areas with recommendations for building these capabilities.

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