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How One CMO Revamped Her Role

Harvard Business

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. ” Like many of the CMOs described in the 2017 article, she was initially hired to focus on downstream commercialization roles, such as overseeing advertising. And they have significantly more impact.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

Each outbound communication is measured individually for immediate ROI. The metrics also changed. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. They realized they had to think beyond marketing as promoting an existing product.