Michael Gerard Director, CMO Advisory Practice
Marketing Operations: Maintaining the Momentum!
November 12, 2007
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2008 CMO Report Card: Marketing Leaders will Strive for Better Alignment with the Market
B+ Mktg. ops. must continue driving process innovation and continuous improvement
Alignment within Marketing
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Sales $136B $174B >$175B $B
on ~ $1.24T in WW IT revenues
Alignment within the Company
C Alignment with the Market • Think about “outsidein” vs. “insideout”marketing • Embrace interactive marketing • Channel Marketing visibility • EndtoEnd marketing
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Marketing Demand Marketing Demand Generation (1.5% of revenue) $19B Generation io n
Field Marketing
Marketing Awareness Marketing Awareness Building (1.5% of revenue) $19BBuilding
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Product Marketing
The Sales and Marketing Chasm
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• CEO/CFO • Sales • Product Mgmt.
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Marketing Operations
• $, staff audit and professional development • Marketing Operations • Process improvements • Performance measurement
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Agenda: IDC’s 3 rd Annual Marketing Operations Study
§ Research Methodology § Roles and Responsibilities § MO Staffing Levels § 2008 Key Success Factors
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Marketing Operations Study: Research Methodology & Demographics § Objective: Update IDC’s 2006 MO study. . . and offer guidance for success in 2008! § Methodology: § IDC CMO Advisory’s 2007 Tech Marketing Benchmarks Study; and § Executive interviews with leading marketing operations managers at
technology firms.
§ Participant Demographics: § IDC CMO Advisory’s 2007 Tech Marketing Benchmarks Study: >90 technology companies; hardware, software and services; <$500M to >$20 B revenue (5 th annual study) § Executive interviews: Avaya, Cisco, Citrix, HP, IBM, Intel, Nortel, SAP, . . .
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IDC’s Marketing Benchmarking Methodology the Tech Vendor Community Nortel SunGard ECI % of Companies by Revenue % of Companies by Sector $10B+
Adobe AMD Services Applied Micro Circuits 19% Ariba Autodesk Avaya Avnet BEA Systems BearingPoint BMC Software Software CA 47% Cadence Design Capgemini CGI Group Ciena Citrix Systems Cognizant Cognos CSC Compuware Corel Cray
Oce Sybase 15% <$500M Palm Symantec 30% Pegasystems Tektronix Planar Systems TIBCO $3$9.9B Postini Unica Fujitsu Consulting 17% Progress Unisys Genesys Conferencing Quark Vmware Genesys Telco $500$999M Quest Xerox Global Crossing 12% Rackspace Yahoo! Hitachi Data Systems $1$2.9B Research in Motion Hitachi Global Storage 26% Ricoh Americas Informatica Sage Group Ingram Micro SAP Intel % of Revenue from Direct SAS Intergraph Sales vs. Indirect Sales Siemens Communications ISS SGI Juniper Indirect Solidworks Kronos Sales SPSS LanDesk 39% Startek Mathworks Direct Sales Sterling Commerce McAfee 61% Stratus Network Appliance EDS ESRI Hardware Extreme Networks Fair Isaac 34%
Source: IDC’s CMO Tech Marketing Benchmarks Study, 2007.(n=99); Marketing Investment Planner 2008: Benchmarks and KPIs, #208489 © 2007 IDC
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How does IDC Define Marketing Operations Staff? Marketing Operations Internal staff responsible for developing and orchestrating the processes and systems required to enable efficient and effective marketing. More specifically, marketing operations staff members are responsible for developing and managing the processes to ensure smooth operation of strategic planning, financial management, marketing performance measurement (including dashboard development), marketing infrastructure and overall marketing excellence.
“Marketing Operations has two primary roles – supporting Marketing transactions and leading Marketingwide transformation” Source: IDC’s Worldwide Sales and Marketing Taxonomy, 2007: A Blueprint for Cost Control, #205444 © 2007 IDC
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A Guideline for MO Staff Allocation should be 24% of Total Marketing Staff Q. What percent of total marketing staff headcount is marketing operations?
% of Respondents (n=82)
35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% 0%
<1%
1% to <2%
2% to 4% >4% to 6% >6% to 8%
>8%
MO as a % of Total Staff
Source: IDC CMO Advisory Practice, 2007 Tech Marketing Benchmarks Database. © 2007 IDC
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A Guideline for MO Staff Allocation should be 24% of Total Marketing Staff
MO as a % of Total Staff
Q. What percent of total marketing staff headcount is marketing operations? (by Sector) 5.0% 4.5% 4.0% 3.5%
Marketing Budget Ratio* increases from ~1% to >5%; therefore, greater complexity
4.5% 3.6%
3.0% 2.5% 2.0% 1.5% 1.0% 0.5% 0.0%
2.6%
Software Companies (n=45)
Hardware Companies (n=22)
Services Companies (n=15)
Sector * Marketing Budget Ratio (MBR) = marketing spend as a % of revenue (program and people) Source: IDC CMO Advisory Practice, 2007 Tech Marketing Benchmarks Database. © 2007 IDC
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IDC’s 2007 Marketing Performance Matrix SM : Technology Companies High Low Yield
Mktg. Leadership
Efficiency
Mktg. Ldshp. Quadrant • Average MO ratio is 4.9%* • >90% of companies have an MO role
Other Three Quadrants • Average MO ratio is 2.8%* • ~26% of companies do not have an MO role
Low Crisis Potential Low
Weak Outlook
Effectiveness
*Weighted average Source: IDC CMO Advisory Practice, 2007. (hardware, software and services companies) and IDC’s Marketing Performance Matrix 2007: Innovation in Tech Marketing Leadership, #206155 © 2007 IDC
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What keeps MO professionals “up at night”? (i.e., their key concerns) § Process tools and IT infrastructure § “tools don’t work together as we’d like” § “how do we better partner with IT?” § “change management continues to be a challenge”. . . “how do we better
influence behavior on a more continuous, longer term basis?”
§ Common Definitions: “how do we develop common definitions across the organization” § Marketing’s complexity: § “too many areas with multiple parties and handoffs and not enough direct
accountability” § “how do we keep marketing’s ‘eye on the ball’ regarding customer needs?”
§ Accountability: § “cost pressures are not letting up” § “we must continue demonstrating our value”(MO and marketing)
§ The next opportunity for improvement
AND. . . . IDC CMO Advisory Practice 2007 3 rd Annual MO Study
Source: IDC CMO Advisory Practice, 2007 Marketing Operations Study. © 2007 IDC
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Marketing Operations: Maintaining the Momentum into 2008 and Beyond “I am concerned that MO is losing strategic influence and position since I see my job being more of execution. . . .but there are a lot of opportunities remaining” [multibillion dollar hardware company] § Refine your team’s ability to: § focus on strategic insight, not tactical support § collaborate and communicate across the organization to enable and influence
change and improve process adoption (marketing, sales, finance, IT) § prioritize what projects/activities will have the greatest ROI/impact § continuously improve existing efforts(e.g., MPM, strategic planning).
§ Build processes into the fabric of your organization (e.g., knowledge database) § Be realistic about your goals, and develop a shortterm and longterm vision § Collaborate with marketing leadership to identify other opportunities for improvement, and take a leadership role in these efforts (e.g., “right sourcing”, longer term IT infrastructure, growth simulations, lead management, VOC)
What’s a Priority for your CMO should be a Priority for your Marketing Operations Team IDC CMO Advisory Practice 2007 3 rd Annual MO Study
Source: IDC CMO Advisory Practice, 2007 Marketing Operations Study. © 2007 IDC
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IDC’s CMO Advisory Practice Michael Gerard Director
[email protected] Phone: 5089886758
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