To say that marketing execution has changed dramatically over the last 10 years is about the grossest kind of understatement. Then why do all the models of the marketing function look about the same as they always have? I mean functional models: what we do, how we execute, and how the functions within the organization relate.
In thinking through my own organization (I'm a tech CMO), I've started building a different kind of functional model, in part because marketing is rapidly becoming the thing that sets winners apart from also-rans.
I tried to think about how much more interconnected and interdependent we now are: The product is the marketing; and our content is no longer just collateral, it's critical across all of marketing, and so on. I also tried to focus on how each of the things we do has changed (PR anyone?).
This short Prezi walks through the model I have in mind (best to view it in full-screen mode):
This approach has been rattling around in my head for some time, and it feels right to me, but it's time to sharpen it up. What do other marketers think?
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Bravo! Love your prezified marketing molecule. And, yes, it illustrates immensely well the rapid changes in just 5 years...
One addition i would make to your marketing molecule is platform choices: web,mobile, tablet -- as now critical marketing choices/options.
I like it. One additional thing I like to impress upon my students is that it's more important than ever to live up to the promises implicit in our positioning, because people are more than ever before ready, willing, and able to call us on our nonsense.
Great presentation!!!!! Loved it.....got my creative juices flowing, it was easy to follow which kept my attention as well the colors!
belatedly found this article - looking for some distributed marketing models...love this. One question I have - does centralization or decentralization matter anymore? Most marketing departments are still (from what I can find) still highly centralized but the skills for all these capabiltiies can be widely distributed. Does it matter anymore that the whole marketing group sits together in one location?