Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2024

Companies that make the decision to put marketing at the core of their growth strategy outperform the competition, according to McKinsey research. Yet their research also showed that few CEOs recognize the potential for marketing as a growth accelerator. The first is to define what you need from marketing.

Marketing 28

Marketing Strategy B2C B2B 28

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Marketing analytics is becoming big business. of their marketing budgets on analytics and expect to spend 11.1% In the end, analytics effectiveness boils down to two questions: Do marketing analytics improve profits or ROI? And are companies using marketing analytics effectively? For marketing ROI, the figure is 0.61%.

Marketing 8

Marketing ROI Metrics B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Nowhere else in the executive suite of a typical corporation are two functions as closely intertwined as sales and marketing. Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones.

Marketing 12

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 12

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A study by McKinsey specific to the business-to-business (B2B) area suggests that businesses that optimize QTC for end-to-end accountability significantly outperform peers that don’t. There is, on average, a 30 percent loss of efficiency in operating this across the siloed functions of sales, I.T., logistics, and finance. finance, I.T.,

Industry 276

Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 276

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

McKinsey & Co. research on B2B purchases indicates that 25% of the buying decision depends on the interaction with the sales professional. Many companies in my experience have a similar disconnect between their intended market or customer type and their actual client base.

Strategy 8

Strategy Execution How To CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

billion consumers around the globe have an account on a social networking site and almost one in five online hours is spent on social networks), marketing departments have increasingly shifted their attention to social media. With consumers spending gobs of time in online communities ( more than 1.5 trillion annually. trillion annually.

Media 16

Media Productivity Products Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

The marketers of Clearblue Advanced Pregnancy Test, a product that can tell you if you’re one-week, two-weeks, or three-plus weeks pregnant, asked a couple of D-list celebrities to tweet out their positive tests back in 2013. There is nothing new about this kind of segmenting in the pregnancy test market, however.

Market Segmentation 9

Market Segmentation Marketing Insurance Price 9