Forrester Decisions for Portfolio Marketing

Products that fail in the market often do so for one simple reason: They don’t demonstrate how they meet buyers’ needs. To discover growth opportunities and maximize go-to-market performance, you must unlock and encode buyer needs into the DNA of your business.

Forrester Decisions for Portfolio Marketing helps portfolio marketing leaders create deep market and buyer understanding throughout the organization, driven by a proven strategic approach. With a combination of leading insights, proven tools, and continuous guidance, you’ll bring distinctive solutions to the right audiences and convert new business into long-term customers.

Base Your Business On Buyer Needs

Pinpoint Market Opportunities

Stimulate growth by identifying the market segments and buyers most likely to spend on your solutions.

Create Messaging That Resonates

Develop messages that resonate with your unique audience at every stage of their journey.

Improve Go-To-Market Momentum

Bring new products to market with precision through a strategic, repeatable approach to launch and enablement activities.

Key Priorities

As a portfolio marketer, you’re under constant pressure to deliver on today’s priorities while staying one step ahead of what’s coming tomorrow. Forrester Decisions for Portfolio Marketing is tailored to help you focus on your most pressing priorities:

  • Activate market and competitive intelligence to ignite revenue growth.
  • Align the organization with winning go-to-market strategies.
  • Sharpen insights to create an impactful buyer experience.
  • Craft messaging and content that motivates buyers.
  • Commercialize offerings.
  • Equip buyer- and customer-facing roles.
  • Build a strategic portfolio marketing function.

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:

Shape strategy, guide transformational change, and stay ahead of the curve with leading research and insights.

  • Customer obsession research
  • Customer insights
  • Trends and predictions
  • Market forecasts
  • Industry highlights
  • Planning guides
  • Technology and service provider landscapes
  • Forrester Wave™ Evaluations

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

  • KPIs and peer benchmarks
  • Assessments
  • Strategic models and frameworks
  • Execution Tools and Templates
  • Forrester Wave™ evaluations for your function
  • Certification courses

Accelerate progress and de-risk decisions with expert advice and hands-on support tailored to you and your team.

  • Guidance sessions
  • Peer discussions
  • Event attendance
  • Client webinars
  • Dedicated relationship management

Service Model Spotlight

The Forrester Buyer Needs Helix

The Buyer Needs Helix helps portfolio marketers take their market and buyer knowledge and encode buyer needs across the organization to discover growth and maximize go-to-market performance.

Support For Leaders And Team Members

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

 

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 Portfolio 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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