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CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together

Harvard Business Review

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

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Connecting with the 'Overqualified' Job Candidate: Why the Highly.

Strategy Driven

Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild! The truth is, candidates with well-developed skills, a lot of working world experience, and the right attitude are exactly what you should want. Do what works! Not necessarily.

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Doing 'Different' Right: Ten Big-Time Difference Makers and How.

Strategy Driven

Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild! With all the noise in your clients’ and potential clients’ daily lives, it certainly hasn’t become any easier to attract attention and appeal to your target market. Do what works! But the true success came in the way that they appealed to their customers.

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The Best Companies Combine Marketing and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Marketing came out of sales: given that a company wanted to sell stuff to customers, how could it think about doing that in an intellectually rigorous and planned way? The very best companies in the world have eschewed this unproductive distinction between marketing and strategy, and P&G is one of them.

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How B2B Marketers Can Get Started with Social Media

Harvard Business Review

Many B2B CEOs still believe that social media isn’t right for them. But social media marketing can offer B2B marketers a range of benefits if they take advantage of it, from increasing engagement and influencing decision making before the sales call to customizing sales messages and enhancing their company’s reputation.

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Pin Down Your Customer Intelligence Objectives

Harvard Business Review

What I did, therefore, for the telecom team was to draw up a quick list of capabilities an organization might choose to develop in the customer intelligence domain. Marketing mix portfolio modeling. What's your biggest problem in customer intelligence, and what does it mean for what applications you need to develop?