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Marketers, Let Your Egos Go

Harvard Business Review

For senior marketers, it is a very humbling thought. What if your ideas, your thoughts and even your experience as a trained marketing professional didn''t amount to a hill of beans in terms of the brand''s actual advertising performance? What if, in short, what your company really needs is not a marketer, but a data scientist ?

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Is Anyone Really Responsible for Your Company's Data Security?

Harvard Business Review

Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. So who''s responsible for information security in your company? The truth is, unless all these people understand they own a piece of the problem and can be brought to deal with it together, you cannot manage information security.