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• Blog Executive Crisis Tracker

  April 14, 2020 | Keith Johnston

  Help us track and share important COVID-19 experiences, plans, and expectations. How are companies handling the COVID-19 pandemic? How are their priorities shifting over time — for both the short...

• Report Case Study: Navy Federal Credit Union's Great Employee Experience Drives Great CX

  The Success Secrets Behind The Leading Company In Forrester's Customer Experience Index

  March 17, 2020 | Keith Johnston, Nick Monroe

  Being a repeat leader in Forrester's Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) makes you a company that others want to learn from and emulate. So how does Navy Federal Credit Union — the world's...

• Report Modern Employee Experience Practices Are Table Stakes For The Customer-Obsessed Firm

  Executive Overview: The Employee Experience Playbook

  November 15, 2019 | Keith Johnston, Nick Monroe

  The time has come for businesses to retire ineffective employee experience (EX) practices and develop EX programs that attract, retain, and cultivate the modern worker. This playbook helps...

• Report Predictions 2020: Agencies

  The Cumulation Of Many Pressures Forces Agencies To Upgrade

  October 29, 2019 | Jay Pattisall, Keith Johnston, Thomas Husson

  CMOs' demand for higher-performing campaigns and experiences will compel agencies to finally embrace their own transformation. In 2020, agencies will either reassemble their process, workforce, and...

• Blog Predictions 2020: CMOs Must Extend Their Span Of Control In The Name Of Customer Value

  October 28, 2019 | Keith Johnston

  We are 20 years into the digital era that transformed the CMO role from a long-term brand-building growth captain to a quarter-disciplined and data-focused operator. This transition has caused some...

• Report Predictions 2020: CMO

  CMOs Must Establish A Span Of Control Before Their Purpose And The CMO Title Itself Are Dissolved

  October 28, 2019 | Keith Johnston, Shar VanBoskirk, Anjali Lai

  It's been 20 years since the digital era transformed the CMO role from a long-term brand-building growth captain to a quarter-disciplined and data-focused operator. This painful transition has...

• Report Four Steps To Establish An Innovative Marketing Function

  The Strategy Report In The Marketing Innovation Playbook

  October 28, 2019 | Keith Johnston

  True marketing innovation focuses on evolving from staid, traditional marketing approaches to a new worldview that prioritizes solving customer problems over promoting product. To do this, you must...

• Blog The CMO/CIO Paradox

  August 27, 2019 | Keith Johnston

  Over the past few years, countless articles have been published on the growing importance of CMO-CIO collaboration. Of course, it seems so evident that the relationship between CMO and CIO should...

• Blog PEAK Humans Can Flourish In Our Transformation-Filled Future Of Work

  June 11, 2019 | Keith Johnston

  Academics to consultants are prognosticating on the future of work, picking winners and losers, often to the detriment of employees. Forrester’s data shows that job losses will reach 29% by 2030,...

• Blog The Chief Growth Officer: Proxy Or Prophet?

  May 31, 2019 | Keith Johnston

  In our 2018 CMO predictions, in the wake of Coca-Cola replacing its CMO with a chief growth officer (CGO) and the emergence of this role in other companies like Hershey’s and Kellogg’s,...

• Blog CMOs Take Public Stances On Societal Issues To Tap Into Consumer Energy — Just As We Said They Would

  May 7, 2019 | Keith Johnston

  In November 2018, we predicted that CMOs would target societal tensions to gain an advantage in competitive markets. Nike’s 30th-anniversary campaign featuring controversial activist Colin...