• Taking Marketing Alignment and Accountability to the Next Level

    Taking Marketing Alignment and Accountability to the Next Level will walk you through what it means to be a ‘value-creator’ and how marketing operations is the key to alignment and marketing accountability. In this program,  Laura Patterson, from VisionEdge Marketing and Jay Verellen from KENNAMETAL, a supplier of tooling and industrial materials, will walk you […]

  • Accelerating Market Leadership with Customer Advisory Boards

    Next Generation Customer Insights Driving Bottom-Line Impact through Increased Customer Loyalty Netflix Corporate Offices 121 Albright Way,, Las Gatos, United States

    Customer insight is an essential element for achieving market leadership, so more companies are implementing Customer Advisory Boards (CABs). When planned and executed correctly CABs help you improve existing products, validate new ideas, beta test and provide constructive feedback on upcoming products and releases, improve messaging in existing markets and target new markets, and provide […]

  • With Credibility Comes Influence and Relevance: How You can Employ Performance Management to Earn All Three

    Hilton San Francisco Union Square 33 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    MarTech 2016 in San Francisco

    Despite advances in data, analytics, and technology, the overall marketing grade and the number of marketers earning an "A" continues to slide. Since 1999, VisionEdge Marketing and partners and other companies have conducted research involving hundreds of firms to discover how marketers can prove their value, impact, and contribution. The research reveals there is a small elite group of Marketers who earn top marks from the C-Suite for this ability. This group, known as Value Creators, are perceived to be more credible. With credibility comes influence and relevance. Learn how you can join the ranks of this elite group. In this session you'll learn:
    the six areas where these best-in-class marketers excel;
    how you can build and leverage your business acumen;
    how to make your data, analytics, and metrics more relevant to the C-Suite;
    and how to manage and report on your performance to prove and improve the value of marketing

  • Analytics: The Intersection for Marketing and IT to Collaboratively Turn Data into a Winning Strategy for Growth

    Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress 1 Grand Cypress Blvd, Orlando, FL, United States

    April 3-4, 2016 Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress 1 Grand Cypress Blvd, Orlando, FL 32836 Mid-Market CMO Forum 2016 It’s easy to collect data without insight, but to gather insight without data is next to impossible. Big Data continues to trend because companies believe it will help them deliver a competitive advantage. While the importance of […]

  • Digital Analytics Roundtable

    Digital Analytics Virtual Roundtable http://www.digitalanalyticsassociation.org/calendar_day.asp?date=4/20/2016&event=562

    Join Laura Brook from the Digital Analytics Association and Laura Patterson for a conversation about how Digital Anlaytics has evolved, core skills, and its role in creating Marketing Centers of Excellence.

  • How a Traditional Industrial Company Gained Market Traction for New Product Using Ecosystem Mapping

    Loyola University Corboy Law Center, Kasbeer Hall E Pearson St, Chicago, IL, United States

    ISBM Conference: The Stakeholder Value Chain May 3-5 Chicago Loyola University Corboy Law Center, Kasbeer Hall E Pearson St, Chicago, IL 60611 Even when you’re nearly 50 years old and an established and successfully player in the market, there’s a time to step back and take a new approach to growth.  The H-J Family of […]

  • Driving Marketing Excellence: Learn from Best-In-Class Organizations

    Virtual Roundtable

      The Jeannette Expedition - an eight-day northern arctic trek in which the team was inadvertently back tracking farther south - serves as a metaphor for this year's Marketing Performance Management (MPM) Benchmark study.    Though they marched feverishly toward achieving marketing excellence, this year’s study reveals that while some marketers made great progress, much of it […]

  • Marketing Excellence: Best Practices to Make Your Marketing Count

    La Cantera Resort and Spa 16641 La Cantera Parkway, San Antonio, TX, United States

    Marketers everywhere are pressed to prove and improve the value of Marketing. An elite group of Marketers does this better and differently than their colleagues. Learn the 10 best practices these Marketers employ to measure Marketing's impact, contribution, and effectiveness and how these practices enable them to be more relevant, credible, and influential within their […]

  • How to Transform Data into Insights to Create a Winning Strategy for Competitive Advantage

    La Cantera Resort and Spa 16641 La Cantera Parkway, San Antonio, TX, United States

    It’s easy to collect data without insight, but to gather insight without data is next to impossible. Big Data continues to trend because companies believe it will help them deliver a competitive advantage. While the importance of Big Data is well known, many organizations experience problems when attempting to translate data into the insights needed […]