Agile Marketing Strategies

Transform your organization using Agile principles with this proven framework The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing provides a proven framework for applying Agile principles and processes to marketing. Written by celebrated consultant Jim Ewel, this book provides a concise, approachable, and adaptable strategy for the implementation of Agile in virtually any marketing organization. The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing discusses six key areas of practical concern to the marketer who hopes to adopt Agile practices in their organization. They include: Aligning the team on common goals Structuring the team for greater efficiency Implementing processes like Scrum and Kanban in marketing Validated Learning Adapting to Change Creating Remarkable Customer Experiences The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing also discusses four shifts in beliefs and behaviors necessary to achieving an Agile transformation in marketing organizations. They include: A shift from a focus on outputs to one based on outcomes A shift from a campaign mentality to one based on continuous improvement A shift from an internal focus to a customer focus

Transform your organization using Agile principles with this proven framework The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing provides a proven framework for applying Agile principles and processes to marketing. Written by celebrated consultant Jim Ewel, this book provides a concise, approachable, and adaptable strategy for the implementation of Agile in virtually any marketing organization. The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing discusses six key areas of practical concern to the marketer who hopes to adopt Agile practices in their organization. They include: Aligning the team on common goals Structuring the team for greater efficiency Implementing processes like Scrum and Kanban in marketing Validated Learning Adapting to Change Creating Remarkable Customer Experiences The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing also discusses four shifts in beliefs and behaviors necessary to achieving an Agile transformation in marketing organizations. They include: A shift from a focus on outputs to one based on outcomes A shift from a campaign mentality to one based on continuous improvement A shift from an internal focus to a customer focus A shift from top-down decisions to de-centralized decisions Perfect for anyone in a leadership position at a marketing agency, The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing also belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in improving the efficacy and efficiency of their own marketing efforts. Full of practical advice and concrete strategies that have been successfully implemented at Fortune 500, Silicon Valley, and non-profit organizations alike, this book is an indispensable resource to help your organization make the leap to Agile.

Marketing has for years promised to generate growth and transform business. This promise has been backed by increasing amounts of money spent on innovation, advertising and other forms of communication, as well as people. Yet marketers and general managers alike see that most new products and communication campaigns fail and worry that this huge spend on marketing might be wasted. They also worry that they are slow to react to changes in the customer and competitive environment. In this book, full of case studies and practical advice, Anthony Freeling argues that the problem lies in the usual approach to marketing strategy. Agile Marketing develops an approach, inspired by evolution, to do marketing and to innovate, that is better, faster and cheaper. The marketing community glories in "big leaps" towards radically different offers and communication programs. Dr Freeling argues that this is too risky. It is based on a generally misplaced belief that marketers can predict their customers' and competitors' future actions. In nature, creatures evolve by continuously making changes and keeping those changes that are fittest to survive in their environment. The book describes how to use a continuous process of fast, practical "test, learn and commit (TLC) loops" of marketing experiments to change marketing offers. These adapted offers are fittest to survive in their environment - the marketplace. The book also considers when other forms of marketing such as guerilla marketing should be used. Dr Freeling shows how to implement Agile Marketing and when Agile Marketing is best and when classic marketing is best. The author also provides advice on the necessary organizational and cultural changes that will be required to adopt Agile Marketing successfully.

Clearly the marketing methods of old will not fulfill all the needs of today's organization. Today, the fast moving opportunities afforded by the internet, websites, social networking and data communication give those in the know a huge advantage over traditional marketers. The goal of this book is to teach you how. Author Michelle Accardi-Petersen has been on both the planning and implementation side of the problem. Utilizing methods that may be familiar to those with a software background but without the technical baggage, she presents the techniques that will put you way ahead of traditional marketers and move your organization to the forefront in their overall marketing operations.

Learn how to implement Agile marketing and how other marketers adopted Agile, you will develop the knowledge, understanding, and confidence required to apply Scrum, Kanban and other Agile frameworks. Agile Marketing explains how to apply agile methodologies to marketing. The book contains a realistic and actionable guide to starting agile in marketing, including practical examples and more detailed case studies of different types of agile marketing teams which illustrate the application of agile within marketing teams from start to finish. You will learn how to apply lean and agile principles to marketing planning and execution on a very practical level, including how to: 1. Building skills required for adaptive marketing planning and execution to reduce campaign cost. 2. Learn and understand techniques to deliver your marketing campaigns on time and on budget. Visualise workflow in order to limit work-in-progress, decrease burden for the marketing teams and increase task completion rate. 3. Learn how to become a successful and collaborative marketing team member. As team leaders and managers, you will also learn how to collaborate with your direct reports. Rationalize meetings and manage time more effectively. 4. You will learn the mindset of highly successful Agile marketing professionals. Set up marketing teams to execute marketing campaigns. 5. Develop marketing campaigns based on customer experience and analytics insights. 6.Create self-organizing teams to make the job of the CMO and senior managers easier. 7. Reduce micro-management and improve team morale and job satisfaction. 8. Change the team's mindset to improve collaboration and communication between team members. 9. Eliminate marketing team's time and budget wastage. 10. Understand effective team composition and skill requirements to create an agile marketing team that builds on existing team members' skill sets. The book's key contribution, however, is that it goes deeper than just the practical application of agile in the context of marketing: it introduces insights from psychology which inform how marketing teams can increase collaboration, work smarter and more productively, and how this, in turn, can improve overall customer experiences.

The leading authority on agile marketing shows how to build marketing operations that can pivot freely and yet remain committed to priorities. As a marketer, are you tired of chasing marketing fads and algorithm rumors that seem to change every couple of months? This guide to building the perfect marketing department will help you achieve the latest and greatest without having to rebuild your operations from scratch every time the wind shifts. Agile strategies have been the accepted modus operandi for software development for two decades, and marketing is poised to follow in its footsteps. As the audiences we market to become ever more digital, agile frameworks are emerging as the best and only way to manage marketing. This book is a signpost showing the way toward the agile future of marketing operations, explaining how every role, from social media intern up to chief marketing officer, can work in unison, responding to the market's demanding challenges without losing focus on the big picture. You will learn what it takes for marketing agility to thrive--customer focus, transparency, continuous improvement, adaptability, trust, bias for action, and courage--along with the antipatterns that can drag you down. Most important, you will learn how to implement the systems, strategies, and practices that will truly transform your marketing operations.

This book discusses the analysis of consumer behavior as a fundamental tool to build agility in business models and strategies. Exploring recent scientific developments in neurobehavioral research, this book argues that the development of agile marketing strategies requires an examination of neurobehavioral experiences in visual merchandising, shopping, and consumption, and an understanding cognitive synchronization with emotions, such as eye movements, gestures, verbal manifestation, and encoding behavior among consumers. The author discusses possible approaches to measure neuro-responses during a consumer’s shopping experience, both in-store and online. Such approaches will help firms to understand real-time neurobehavioral effects and improve the marketing capabilities of the firm accordingly. Discussing new strategies suitable to co-create agile business models in association with the market players and consumers, this interdisciplinary work engages scholarship on business agility, consumer behavior, social intervention, collective intelligence, decision-making, and stakeholder values.

This is a timely book that examines the concept of agility in marketing by converging neurobehavioral perspectives and customer engagement. It describes the evolution from Scrum methodology to agile management practices lingered over several changes and portray inclusivity in marketing through various examples. An excellent reference and read for practitioners and academics. Arturo Molina, PhD, Vice-Rector (Research and Innovation),Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico Agility may not drive perfection, but paves path for excellence by engaging customers and understanding their behavioral dynamics within a market ecosystem. This book contributes to agile marketing concept and practice converging new dimensions of neurobehavioral attributes and customer engagement. A good learning choice for the managers... Angappa Gunasekaran PhD, Director, School of Business Administration, Penn State University at Harrisburg, Middletown, PA, Agile movement has transformed the businesses into a digital workplace by connecting the people, performance, and profit. This book blends the agile marketing philosophy with the digital space and human behavior... The convergence of neuromarketing, neurobehavioral attributes, and customer engagement differentiates this book... John D Sullivan, PhD, Assistant Dean and Associate Professor, Boston University, Boston, MA Agility and agile transformation are the two facets of business, and both are correlated to business performance. This book addresses multi-layered themes between the broad domains of consumer behavior and marketing strategies with focus on agility as a business driver. Emphasizing on agile marketing strategy, this book argues the developing meaningful relationship with the stakeholders by analyzing neurobehavioral attributes and various sensitive touch points. The book offers new concepts on co-creation and coevolution in business development processes. Rajagopal is Professor of Marketing at EGADE Business School of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), Mexico City Campus and Life Fellow of the Royal Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce, London. He is Visiting Professor at Boston University and the UFV India Global Education of the University of the Fraser Valley, Canada.