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Put Marketing at the Core of Your Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

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.

Strategy 141
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Skills-first hiring has CIOs rethinking talent strategies

CIO

Jason Snyder faces the same challenge nearly all CIOs encounter when looking to fill open positions: a tight labor market, where fierce competition for workers has meant months-long vacancies. Some researchers and tech leaders are using the strategy. The strategy moves away, to varying degrees, from using job titles.

Strategy 301
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Episode 1: Future-forward Marketing Strategies for Growth and Resilience

CIO

In this first episode of our 5-episode podcast , Essential Connections: The Business Owner’s Guide to Growth During Economic Uncertainty , we welcome Jamie Domenici, Chief Marketing Officer at GoTo. Navigating today’s turbulence requires a strategy that allows for agility and strength. Jamie’s advice?

Strategy 259
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Today’s best CIOs are strategy wranglers

CIO

Twenty-plus years in, CIOs have discovered that, when it comes to IT, everything is going to need a strategy. As CIO, you need a data strategy. You need a cloud strategy. You need a security strategy. Just this past year another strategy must-have arrived to upend nearly every organization.

Strategy 293
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7 Winning Lead Generation Strategies to Drive Growth

As B2B companies pivot to keep pace with a quickly changing marketplace, a data-centric approach to lead generation can be the difference between remaining competitive or being left behind. Identify the stakeholders who are in-market for your products/services. Identify the stakeholders who are in-market for your products/services.

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A changing market landscape requires constant evolution: Our mission for VMware customers

CIO

As we moved from transaction to integration, we began to translate customer thoughts into a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for VMware Cloud Foundation, or VCF. Early in this process, I concluded that the previous go-to-market model was too complex and costly for VMware and its customers.

Marketing 257
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5 strategies for biotech startups to outlast a market downturn

TechCrunch

Inflationary market dynamics and ongoing fiscal tightening continue to pose significant risks to capital commitments. As a venture capitalist specializing in early-stage life science companies, I work with startups that have the potential to revolutionize the world against biothreats, pandemics and more.

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Put Your Data to Work: The Complete Playbook

What do startups and Fortune 500 companies have in common? They rely on data to power products, business insights, and marketing strategy. An interactive guide filled with the tools to turn your data into a competitive advantage.

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11 Email Deliverability Strategies to Reach the Inbox

Marketers highly value email as an effective, reliable channel to engage with your audience and drive revenue for your company. 11 strategies to hit the inbox and improve your sender reputation. Real-world examples from 9 companies applying deliverability best practices.

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How to Develop a Recession-Proof Product-Led Strategy

Speaker: Wes Bush, Author of "Product-Led Growth"

As PMs, we all know the importance of building a successful product-led growth strategy. Zoom, Stripe, and Airtable are all examples of software companies with strong PLG strategies. What features do their strategies have that allow them to see continued success in this ever-changing market?

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Success Story: Swiss Insurtech Company Hires a Remote CTO from Ukraine

Hiring top management resources is challenging for any organization no matter the size, and when the local job market is already overheated, companies need to become creative in attracting the top talent.

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Togetherness: Achieving Sales and Marketing Alignment

Speaker: Jeff Davis, Founder, jd2 Consulting Group

Studies show failure to align sales and marketing teams around the right processes and technologies costs B2B companies 10% or more of revenue per year. In today’s B2B business environment sales and marketing can no longer operate in silos.

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How King Crushes New Product Development using Data-Driven Insights

Speaker: Ian Thompson, Head of Business Intelligence at King, and Zara Wells, Strategic Customer Success Manager at Looker

Product Managers looking to leverage data to make informed product design decisions can learn a lot from renowned gaming company King, maker of Candy Crush and many other games - even if their product has seemingly no overlap with games. The key is the strategy and tools for accessing product data at the level that you'd like.

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Embedded BI and Analytics: Best Practices to Monetize Your Data

Speaker: Azmat Tanauli, Senior Director of Product Strategy at Birst

By creating innovative analytics products and expanding into new markets, more and more companies are discovering new potential revenue streams. Join Azmat Tanauli, Senior Director of Product Strategy at Birst, as he walks you through how the data that you're likely already collecting can be transformed into revenue!

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The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?

Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries

In most cases, actually building software should be the last avenue that companies explore to deliver great products, as software engineering, data science and product development are complex, uncertain and hard to manage.