Forrester Decisions for Marketing Operations

Often the creative spark that drives increased demand comes from visualizing customer data in a new way. In fact, unseen possibilities that fuel marketing are unlocked when marketing leaders’ needs converge with insights, technologies, and innovative approaches.

Forrester Decisions for Marketing Operations helps marketing operations leaders become strategic partners who use data and technology to highlight the insights that matter. With a combination of bold vision, curated tools and frameworks, and hands-on guidance, you’ll deliver increased marketing contribution and revenue growth.

Unlock Unseen Possibilities

Make Strategic Decisions With Data

Be the trusted source for data strategy and insight-driven decisions across product, marketing, sales, and customer engagement.

Build Agile Marketing Processes

Establish plans, programs, and processes that adapt to changing markets and customer expectations.

Increase Technology ROI

Deliver on strategic business performance metrics and capitalize on the latest technology.

Key Priorities

As a marketing operations leader, you foster tight alignment and productivity within the marketing function as well as across the entire organization. Forrester Decisions for Marketing Operations is tailored to help you focus on your most pressing priorities:

  • Align marketing within the revenue engine.
  • Orchestrate the marketing planning and budgeting processes.
  • Drive performance with marketing measurement and insights.
  • Establish a marketing data strategy advantage.
  • Optimize marketing’s technology stack.
  • Improve marketing’s agility with streamlined processes.
  • Define a world-class marketing operations team.

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
Acronis

Scale Marketing Operations To Fuel Fast Growth

Hear how working with Forrester helped Acronis build and scale its marketing operations function to meet the needs of a fast-growing company.

Service Model Spotlight

The Forrester Revealing Unseen Possibilities Model

This model reflects marketing operations’ unique ability to uncover unseen possibilities by connecting stakeholder needs with known capabilities in the market. To reveal these possibilities, marketing operations must be empowered by their leadership team to act as design thinkers who are insights driven and tech savvy.

Support For Leaders And Team Members

Forrester Decisions for Marketing Operations 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.

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