How does your Marketing performance management and measurement stack up? Best-in-Class marketers constantly monitor their capabilities and promptly address gaps.  These marketers have a relentless focus on continuous improvement.

VisionEdge Marketing provides benchmarking services and a proprietary patented Accelance® Marketing Effectiveness Audit methodology and application to evaluate Marketing organizations and identify areas for improvement needed to create a highly functional Marketing organization. The assessment methodology examines an organization’s alignment, processes, systems, tools, and skills related to marketing performance and the primary areas of the marketing workflow.

Assess Your  Performance Management Proficiency 

Use the Marketing Effectiveness Audit to assess the overall health of your performance management proficiency.  The VisionEdge Marketing audit is a comprehensive process that includes interviews with internal stakeholders from across the organization and thorough reviews  processes, systems, and performance measurement competencies. This approach reveals how strong your organization is in the following areas:

1. Organizational Alignment and Value: Evaluates how well the Marketing organization is aligned with initiatives and outcomes and the effectiveness of Marketing’s alignment processes.

2. Performance Management: Examines the Marketing organization’s use of data and analytics, creation of measurable marketing objectives, establishment of program performance targets, and reporting on performance and results.

3. Data and Processes: Assesses operational processes, data skills and development processes, data management processes, measurement and reporting processes.

4. System and Tools: Evaluates the Marketing organization’s infrastructure; its data, systems and tools.

5. Marketing Skills Proficiency: Audits the Marketing staff’s skills and capabilities related to the market, customer and competitive analysis, planning, program development, execution and reporting.

This audit can be implemented for additional functions within the organization  The audit provides a snapshot view of your marketing organizations performance in thirteen critical areas:

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Download Case Study: MarketStrength Audit™ Guides Company’s Marketing to the Next Level to learn how a company used the audit to improve the performance of their Marketing team.

Learn more about the Audit process.

FAQ:

(written by Penn of Sintra.ai)
Q1: Why should Marketing organizations benchmark their performance management and measurement capabilities?
A: Best-in-class marketers continuously monitor their performance management proficiency, identify gaps early, and invest in continuous improvement to strengthen Marketing’s contribution to business outcomes.
Q2: What is the VisionEdge Marketing Effectiveness Audit?
A: It is a proprietary, patented Accelance® Marketing Effectiveness Audit methodology and application used to evaluate Marketing organizations and pinpoint improvement opportunities across alignment, processes, systems, tools, and skills.
Q3: What does the Marketing Effectiveness Audit assess?
A: The audit is a comprehensive process that includes stakeholder interviews across the organization and detailed reviews of Marketing processes, systems, and performance measurement competencies.
Q4: What are the five core areas examined in the audit?
A:
  1. Organizational Alignment and Value: Alignment to initiatives and outcomes, and the effectiveness of alignment processes.
  2. Performance Management: Use of data and analytics, measurable objectives, program performance targets, and performance reporting.
  3. Data and Processes: Operational workflows, data skills and development, data management, measurement, and reporting processes.
  4. Systems and Tools: Marketing infrastructure, including data, systems, and tools.
  5. Marketing Skills Proficiency: Capabilities in market/customer/competitive analysis, planning, program development, execution, and reporting.
Q5: Can the audit be applied beyond Marketing?
A: Yes. The audit can be implemented for additional functions within the organization to assess performance management capabilities more broadly.
Q6: What is the outcome of the audit?
A: The audit provides a snapshot of Marketing’s performance across thirteen critical areas, highlighting strengths, gaps, and prioritized opportunities to improve effectiveness and accountability.
To see how organizations use the audit to elevate Marketing performance, review the MarketStrength Audit™ case study and learn more about the audit process.

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