Your Marketing Operations Function
Applying a Best Practice Framework
GARY KATZ
VP MARKETING OPERATIONS
ClearAction Continuum
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Marketing Operations Best Practice Framework
MetricsProcessGuidance
Infrastructure
Management
Technology
Strategy
Ecosystem
Alignment
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 Marketing Operations Strategy = planning & decision-making processes
• Includes linkage of Marketing strategy to enterprise strategy
• Includes development of Marketing Operations roadmap to deliver Marketing
strategy
• Includes Marketing Operations reviews to check Marketing health and ensure
Marketing initiatives remain in alignment with Marketing (and enterprise) strategy
• Key elements reinforcing strategy include cascading goals, change management,
environmental analysis, force-field analysis, go-to-market planning, stakeholder
analysis, SWOT, values, vision and mission
Defining Marketing Operations Strategy
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Guidance = The integration of direction, knowledge, norms,
policies, procedures, systems and structures to feed the
development of process and metrics
• Other key guidance inputs include rules of engagement, lessons
leaned, best practices
• Key to effective alignment, knowledge sharing, learning and
change management
• Facilitates better decision-making
• Specifies competency development/training requirements
• Supports Marketing governance
Defining Guidance
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 Process = a series of organized transactions that convert input to outputs (results).
A defense against chaos.
• Analytics
• Bills of Materials (BOMs)
• Brainstorming
• Brand Management
• Budget Approval
• Campaign/Program
Development
• Charter Definition
• Content Development /
Approval/Distribution
• Customer Experience
Management
• Product Launch /Go-to-Market
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Roles & Responsibilities
Clarification
• Six Sigma
• Stock-keeping Units (SKUs)
• Vendor management
• Workflow
• Customer References
• Field Communications Forecasting
• Lean Enterprise
• Lead Management
• Market Research Measurement
Tracking & Reporting
• Planning
• Purchasing
• Pricing
Example Marketing Operations processes include:
Defining Process
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 Metrics = standards of measurement against a specified level of performance.
Performance parameters.
• Typical activities include definition, alignment with enterprise metrics, cascading accountability
• Metrics can be activity-based, operational, outcome-based, leading indicators or predictive
Source: Laura Patterson, VisionEdge Marketing
High-level metrics and associated key performance indicators include:
Acquisition-related:
Market Share
Retention-related: Lifetime
Value
Monetization-related:
Brand Equity
• Share of preference
• Share of voice
• Share of distribution
• Rate of customer
acquisition
• Purchase frequency
• Share of wallet
• Customer duration
• Loyalty
• Price premium
• Customer franchise
• Rate of new product
acceptance
• Net advocate score
Defining Metrics
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Technology = tools that support Marketing activities
• At the individual, department, enterprise, and ecosystem levels
Technology types include:
• CRM
• Enterprise Marketing Management
• Marketing Resource Management
• Marketing Operations Management
• Marketing Asset Management
• Campaign/Offer Management
• Lead Management/Nurturing
• Database and E-Mail Marketing
• Digital Asset Management
• Content Management
• Knowledge Management
• Marketing Portals
• Dashboards & Scorecards
• Business Intelligence
• Predictive Analytics
Defining Marketing Operations Technology
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Ecosystem = The host environment for Marketing Operations efforts
• Comprises the economic, social and political factors that drive or inhibit goal achievement
• Includes the cross-functional interactions with stakeholders essential to marketing success
• Alignment with stakeholders is key to successful ecosystems management
Defining the Marketing Operations Ecosystem
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Infrastructure = integration of process, technology and metrics
• Provide the means to improve efficiency, effectiveness and
accountability of the Marketing function
• Reinforces optimization activities
• Enables achievement of the Marketing vision
Defining Marketing Operations Infrastructure
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 GETTING & KEEPING CUSTOMERS
 DRIVING GROWTH & INNOVATION
 DATA & METRICS THAT WORK
 CREATIVITY WITHIN BOUNDARIES
 DRIVING ACCOUNTABILITY & COMMITMENT
 GETTING EVERYONE ON THE SAME PAGE
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Increase: Maximize: Decrease:
• Follow-through
• Ability to prioritize
• Productivity of resources
• Employee engagement
• Strategic vs. tactical work
• Resource acquisition
• Stakeholder satisfaction
• Stakeholder cooperation
• Team collaboration
• Right the first time
• Job satisfaction
• Continuity
• Project stalls
• Duplicated resources
• Redundant efforts
• Rework
• Employee turnover
• Alliance workloadAlignment (bridging silos) is the
next frontier in CX ROI
Design of ClearAction Value Exchange based on research with American Express, Aon, Apple, Ariba,
Clorox, Covidien, Eli Lilly, Global Foundries, HP, Microsoft, NVIDIA, SAP and beta-testing with many others
ClearAction Value Exchange KPIs are multipliers on your CX investments
SaaS for real-time
personalized action plans
to tackle these silos
30-minute bites
AI-curated resources
DIY and interactive
VP-level to intern-level
Shared vision
Collective capability
© 2019 ClearAction Continuum.
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ClearAction Continuum closes the brand-customer gap.
ClearAction Value Exchange members in marketing
& customer experience, care & success roles access
real-time, 24x7, bite-sized personal solutions to
navigate silos for customer value performance
ClearAction Advisory clients strategically
operationalize marketing & customer experience
for scalability, resource productivity & enduring
customer value performance
1212
Customer value performance momentum
© 2019 ClearAction Continuum.
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Ask about the marketing management maturity roadmap
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MetricsProcessGuidance
Infrastructure
Management
Technology
Strategy
Ecosystem
Alignment
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Success@ClearAction.com
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Ask about customer value performance momentum
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DNA MASTER PLAN™
STRATEGIC RENEWAL™
CLEARACTION VALUE EXCHANGE™
DNA ACTIVATION™
MARKET RESPONSIVENESS INDEX™
DX AGILITY™
DNA TRANSFORMATION™
DX ALTITUDE™
RACE™
(RAPID ANALYTICS CUSTOMER ENVIRONMENT)
VOX MODERNIZED™
VOX ACTIONABILITY™
SHARKTΛINK™
CX growth aspirations:
 Business results via trust-building
 Consistency via silo-bridging
 All-employee engagement
 Prevention and anticipation
 CX as managerial context
 Profit impact in daily decisions
https://clearaction.com/customer-centered-business-10-keys-organic-growth/© 2019 ClearAction Continuum.
Success@ClearAction.com
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We’re honored to influence these companies
PARTIAL LIST OF CLIENTS
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ClearAction clients’ experiences
Because each of the ClearAction
team members managed CX in B2B
for a number of years, they provided
personal examples and practical
tools that could be implemented right
away. It was incredibly beneficial for
us to work with them for several
occasions. They elevated our
collective knowledge and helped us
achieve a higher level of CX maturity.
– A. Chu, Dir Customer Experience
ClearAction is an expert in business
operations and has been an
invaluable resource for us to learn
best-practices in many areas. They
taught us things that would not
readily cross our minds, but after they
explain, it makes total sense, and this
increased our efficiency and
accuracy in many areas. I highly
recommend ClearAction.
– K. Van Diepen, Dir Marketing Communications
ClearAction has been at the forefront
of helping companies like ours
reduce chaos, maximize resources
and achieve impactful results.
They’ve provided mission-critical
guidance to begin the process of
building a strong marketing
operations function that supports our
company’s growth, scale and
continuous improvement objectives.
– K. Chalmers, Dir Marketing Operations
© 2019 ClearAction Continuum.
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Customer value performance momentum

Applying Marketing Operations Best Practice Framework

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    Your Marketing OperationsFunction Applying a Best Practice Framework GARY KATZ VP MARKETING OPERATIONS
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    ClearAction Continuum 2© CopyrightClearAction Continuum. All rights reserved. Marketing Operations Best Practice Framework MetricsProcessGuidance Infrastructure Management Technology Strategy Ecosystem Alignment
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    ClearAction Continuum 3© CopyrightClearAction Continuum. All rights reserved.  Marketing Operations Strategy = planning & decision-making processes • Includes linkage of Marketing strategy to enterprise strategy • Includes development of Marketing Operations roadmap to deliver Marketing strategy • Includes Marketing Operations reviews to check Marketing health and ensure Marketing initiatives remain in alignment with Marketing (and enterprise) strategy • Key elements reinforcing strategy include cascading goals, change management, environmental analysis, force-field analysis, go-to-market planning, stakeholder analysis, SWOT, values, vision and mission Defining Marketing Operations Strategy
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    ClearAction Continuum 4© CopyrightClearAction Continuum. All rights reserved. Guidance = The integration of direction, knowledge, norms, policies, procedures, systems and structures to feed the development of process and metrics • Other key guidance inputs include rules of engagement, lessons leaned, best practices • Key to effective alignment, knowledge sharing, learning and change management • Facilitates better decision-making • Specifies competency development/training requirements • Supports Marketing governance Defining Guidance
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    ClearAction Continuum 5© CopyrightClearAction Continuum. All rights reserved.  Process = a series of organized transactions that convert input to outputs (results). A defense against chaos. • Analytics • Bills of Materials (BOMs) • Brainstorming • Brand Management • Budget Approval • Campaign/Program Development • Charter Definition • Content Development / Approval/Distribution • Customer Experience Management • Product Launch /Go-to-Market • Product Lifecycle Management • Roles & Responsibilities Clarification • Six Sigma • Stock-keeping Units (SKUs) • Vendor management • Workflow • Customer References • Field Communications Forecasting • Lean Enterprise • Lead Management • Market Research Measurement Tracking & Reporting • Planning • Purchasing • Pricing Example Marketing Operations processes include: Defining Process
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    ClearAction Continuum 6© CopyrightClearAction Continuum. All rights reserved.  Metrics = standards of measurement against a specified level of performance. Performance parameters. • Typical activities include definition, alignment with enterprise metrics, cascading accountability • Metrics can be activity-based, operational, outcome-based, leading indicators or predictive Source: Laura Patterson, VisionEdge Marketing High-level metrics and associated key performance indicators include: Acquisition-related: Market Share Retention-related: Lifetime Value Monetization-related: Brand Equity • Share of preference • Share of voice • Share of distribution • Rate of customer acquisition • Purchase frequency • Share of wallet • Customer duration • Loyalty • Price premium • Customer franchise • Rate of new product acceptance • Net advocate score Defining Metrics
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    ClearAction Continuum 7© CopyrightClearAction Continuum. All rights reserved. Technology = tools that support Marketing activities • At the individual, department, enterprise, and ecosystem levels Technology types include: • CRM • Enterprise Marketing Management • Marketing Resource Management • Marketing Operations Management • Marketing Asset Management • Campaign/Offer Management • Lead Management/Nurturing • Database and E-Mail Marketing • Digital Asset Management • Content Management • Knowledge Management • Marketing Portals • Dashboards & Scorecards • Business Intelligence • Predictive Analytics Defining Marketing Operations Technology
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    ClearAction Continuum 8© CopyrightClearAction Continuum. All rights reserved. Ecosystem = The host environment for Marketing Operations efforts • Comprises the economic, social and political factors that drive or inhibit goal achievement • Includes the cross-functional interactions with stakeholders essential to marketing success • Alignment with stakeholders is key to successful ecosystems management Defining the Marketing Operations Ecosystem
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    ClearAction Continuum 9© CopyrightClearAction Continuum. All rights reserved. Infrastructure = integration of process, technology and metrics • Provide the means to improve efficiency, effectiveness and accountability of the Marketing function • Reinforces optimization activities • Enables achievement of the Marketing vision Defining Marketing Operations Infrastructure
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    ClearAction Continuum 10 ClearAction Continuum 10 Seethe rest of this presentation in  GETTING & KEEPING CUSTOMERS  DRIVING GROWTH & INNOVATION  DATA & METRICS THAT WORK  CREATIVITY WITHIN BOUNDARIES  DRIVING ACCOUNTABILITY & COMMITMENT  GETTING EVERYONE ON THE SAME PAGE Join today: https://ClearAction.com/value-exchange Ask for a demo: [email protected]
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    ClearAction ContinuumClearAction Continuum 11 Increase:Maximize: Decrease: • Follow-through • Ability to prioritize • Productivity of resources • Employee engagement • Strategic vs. tactical work • Resource acquisition • Stakeholder satisfaction • Stakeholder cooperation • Team collaboration • Right the first time • Job satisfaction • Continuity • Project stalls • Duplicated resources • Redundant efforts • Rework • Employee turnover • Alliance workloadAlignment (bridging silos) is the next frontier in CX ROI Design of ClearAction Value Exchange based on research with American Express, Aon, Apple, Ariba, Clorox, Covidien, Eli Lilly, Global Foundries, HP, Microsoft, NVIDIA, SAP and beta-testing with many others ClearAction Value Exchange KPIs are multipliers on your CX investments SaaS for real-time personalized action plans to tackle these silos 30-minute bites AI-curated resources DIY and interactive VP-level to intern-level Shared vision Collective capability © 2019 ClearAction Continuum.
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    ClearAction Continuum ClearAction Continuumcloses the brand-customer gap. ClearAction Value Exchange members in marketing & customer experience, care & success roles access real-time, 24x7, bite-sized personal solutions to navigate silos for customer value performance ClearAction Advisory clients strategically operationalize marketing & customer experience for scalability, resource productivity & enduring customer value performance 1212 Customer value performance momentum © 2019 ClearAction Continuum. ClearAction Continuum
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    ClearAction Continuum Ask aboutthe marketing management maturity roadmap ClearAction Continuum 13 https://clearaction.com/marketing-maturity-mobilizes-mojo/ MetricsProcessGuidance Infrastructure Management Technology Strategy Ecosystem Alignment © 2019 ClearAction Continuum. PROPRIETARY & CONFIDENTIAL. [email protected]
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    ClearAction Continuum Ask aboutcustomer value performance momentum ClearAction Continuum 14 DNA MASTER PLAN™ STRATEGIC RENEWAL™ CLEARACTION VALUE EXCHANGE™ DNA ACTIVATION™ MARKET RESPONSIVENESS INDEX™ DX AGILITY™ DNA TRANSFORMATION™ DX ALTITUDE™ RACE™ (RAPID ANALYTICS CUSTOMER ENVIRONMENT) VOX MODERNIZED™ VOX ACTIONABILITY™ SHARKTΛINK™ CX growth aspirations:  Business results via trust-building  Consistency via silo-bridging  All-employee engagement  Prevention and anticipation  CX as managerial context  Profit impact in daily decisions https://clearaction.com/customer-centered-business-10-keys-organic-growth/© 2019 ClearAction Continuum. [email protected]
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    ClearAction Continuum 15 ClearAction Continuum We’rehonored to influence these companies PARTIAL LIST OF CLIENTS © 2019 ClearAction Continuum.
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    ClearAction Continuum 16 ClearAction Continuum ClearActionclients’ experiences Because each of the ClearAction team members managed CX in B2B for a number of years, they provided personal examples and practical tools that could be implemented right away. It was incredibly beneficial for us to work with them for several occasions. They elevated our collective knowledge and helped us achieve a higher level of CX maturity. – A. Chu, Dir Customer Experience ClearAction is an expert in business operations and has been an invaluable resource for us to learn best-practices in many areas. They taught us things that would not readily cross our minds, but after they explain, it makes total sense, and this increased our efficiency and accuracy in many areas. I highly recommend ClearAction. – K. Van Diepen, Dir Marketing Communications ClearAction has been at the forefront of helping companies like ours reduce chaos, maximize resources and achieve impactful results. They’ve provided mission-critical guidance to begin the process of building a strong marketing operations function that supports our company’s growth, scale and continuous improvement objectives. – K. Chalmers, Dir Marketing Operations © 2019 ClearAction Continuum.
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