#Hashtags, The Gartner Marketing & Communications Podcast

How CMOs Are Upending Structure — With Sally Witzky

Episode Summary

CMOs are on a mission to remix their entire resource ecosystem so they can deliver for the business what marketing traditionally has not: unprecedented marketing. CMOs feel their influence has increased for business strategy, growth and innovation, but their talent is lagging.

Episode Notes

In this episode, Gartner analyst Sally Witzky discusses insights from Gartner's Marketing Organization Insights Survey for 2022, with her perspective of what CMOs seemed to get right, and other data points that make us scratch our heads. Either way, CMOs changed all aspects of their marketing resource ecosystem from org structures to operating models to agency roster. The episode covers what they changed and what we’ve heard from CMOs since the survey’s release.

Sally Witzky analyzes marketing organizational and operational trends and best practices. She advises CMOs to leverage proven and actionable techniques, systems and tools for building in-house strategic marketing capabilities that maximize value creation and strengthen competitive advantage.