Successful digital strategies are increasingly serving as the common denominator between marketplace winners and losers. The following are common roadblocks to digital strategy advancement we’ve encountered over the years, and ideas for finding ways to work around them.
“Already among the most powerful and influential companies in the world, several Internet giants have decided to band together to press their agendas in Washington. The big unknown is whether consumers will benefit or should be very afraid. “It’s absolutely not about protecting consumers’ rights,” said Tim Bourgeois, a partner at East Coast Catalyst.”
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Digital marketing is appealing to B2B companies — especially the small- and medium-sized (SMB)sector — because of its accessibility, targeting ability, track-ability, and flexibility. When done properly, a B2B website can be an organization’s most effective salesperson — an asset that works 24/7/365, around the globe — and digital marketing can attract valuable prospects into a sales pipeline. But the digital channel is a crowded and noisy place, and B2B marketers’ biggest challenge is standing out in the crowd. This article will help to focus planning efforts and resources.
What is the difference between broad digital strategy initiatives referred to as ‘optimization’, ‘innovation’, ‘transformation’, and ‘disruption’? More importantly, is there any reason to care?
In a recent commentary about the state of digital transformation among ‘old guard’ corporations, Dion Hinchcliffe of Dachis Group came out swinging with this insightful and challenging question: “Why is it that so many traditional companies with an enormous wealth of assets largely fail to transform them for the digital era?”
‘What is the company’s digital strategy?’ is a common question at board meetings these days, and one that - until recently - often caught CEOs offguard. A chief executive can quickly assess his organization’s digital state-of-readiness by posing the following five questions to top lieutenants.
Digital strategy assessments and website audits can be complex, time-consuming, invasive and politically-charged undertakings. But they are also absolutely necessary, given the sizable and growing web-related line item on most companies’ operating statements. This user-friendly, one-page website audit checklist can help guide and streamline the process.
Web strategy and digital-related activities are steadily increasing in visibility, importance, and complexity at most organizations. While the digital industry is indeed moving fast and tactics and strategies are becoming more complicated and high-profile, core guiding principles can be tricky to identify. The following five questions were crafted for executive leadership to use to direct web strategy planning sessions.
During this year’s annual planning exercises, answers to the following five questions — offered up vis-a-vis examples from Michael Lewis’s Moneyball — should provide practical insights into the state of your organization’s digital readiness and web-enablement, and help to facilitate the digital strategy planning process.
With spending on digital-related initiatives and activities accounting for 10% or more of ALL expenses at many companies — and forecast to increase at double-digit rates for the foreseeable future across most industry segments — it’s time for CEOs and boards to give serious consideration to establishing a “Chief Digital Officer” (“CDO”) office or equivalent. The stakes are too high, and the issues too complicated, to leave this domain left managed by an informal, undefined assemblage of mid-level and junior managers across an enterprise.
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