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More About This Title Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster, and More Innovative
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In many ways, modern marketing has more in common with the software profession than it does with classic marketing management. As surprising as that may sound, it's the natural result of the world going digital. Marketing must move faster, adapt more quickly to market feedback, and manage an increasingly complex set of customer experience touchpoints. All of these challenges are shaped by the dynamics of software—from the growing number of technologies in our own organizations to the global forces of the Internet at large.
But you can turn that to your advantage. And you don't need to be technical to do it.
Hacking Marketing will show you how to conquer those challenges by adapting successful management frameworks from the software industry to the practice of marketing for any business in a digital world. You'll learn about agile and lean management methodologies, innovation techniques used by high-growth technology companies that any organization can apply, pragmatic approaches for scaling up marketing in a fragmented and constantly shifting environment, and strategies to unleash the full potential of talent in a digital age.
Marketing responsibilities and tactics have changed dramatically over the past decade. This book now updates marketing management to better serve this rapidly evolving discipline.
- Increase the tempo of marketing's responsiveness without chaos or burnout
- Design "continuous" marketing programs and campaigns that constantly evolve
- Drive growth with more marketing experiments while actually reducing risk
- Architect marketing capabilities in layers to better scale and adapt to change
- Balance strategic focus with the ability to harness emergent opportunities
As a marketer and a manager, Hacking Marketing will expand your mental models for how to lead marketing in a digital world where everything—including marketing—flows with the speed and adaptability of software.
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SCOTT BRINKER is the editor of the popular Chief Marketing Technologist blog (chiefmartec.com), where he covers topics at the intersection of marketing and technology, and he is the program chair of the MarTech conference series. He is also the cofounder and CTO of ion interactive, a marketing software company that serves leading brands such as Dell, DHL, Dun & Bradstreet, eHealth, General Mills, Iron Mountain, Paychex, Pearson, and Symantec.
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Introduction ix
I MARKETING ≈ DIGITAL ≈ SOFTWARE 1
1 Hacking Is a Good Thing 3
2 Marketing Is a Digital Profession 9
3 What Exactly Are Digital Dynamics? 15
4 Marketing Is Now Deeply Entwined with Software 25
5 Marketers Are Software Creators Now 31
6 Parallel Revolutions in Software and Marketing 37
7 Adapting Ideas from Software to Marketing 47
II AGILITY 53
8 The Origins of Agile Marketing 55
9 From Big Waterfalls to Small Sprints 65
10 Increasing Marketing’s Management Metabolism 75
11 Think Big, but Implement Incrementally 85
12 Iteration = Continuous Testing and Experimentation 95
13 Visualizing Work and Workflow to Prevent Chaos 105
14 Tasks as Stories along the Buyer’s Journey 117
15 Agile Teams and Agile Teamwork 129
16 Balancing Strategy, Quality, and Agility 143
17 Adapting Processes, Not Just Productions 155
III INNOVATION 161
18 Moving Marketing from Communications to Experiences 163
19 Marketing in Perpetual Beta with an Innovation Pipeline 173
20 Collaborative Designs and the Quest for New Ideas 183
21 Big Testing Is More Important Than Big Data 193
IV SCALABILITY 205
22 Bimodal Marketing: Balancing Innovation and Scalability 207
23 Platform Thinking and Pace Layering for Marketing 219
24 Taming Essential and Accidental Complexity in Marketing 233
V TALENT 245
25 Chasing the Myth of the 10× Marketer 247
Notes 255
Acknowledgments 263
About the Author 267
Index 269
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"A brilliant road map on how to evolve the capability and culture of marketing practices using parallels from the most disruptive industry in the world, the software industry."
—Ram Krishnan, SVP & CMO, PepsiCo
"Creates a compelling model for how to think about the intersection of marketing and our digital world. It helped me re-think the way I approach my role as a CMO."
—John L. Kennedy, CMO, Xerox Corporation
"Marketing success is based on the experience it delivers, and now Scott Brinker lays out a terrific manifesto about how to rethink the operations underlying it."
—David C. Edelman, Principal, McKinsey & Company
"An original take on how the management of marketing must transform to keep pace with our increasingly digital world. It's a must read for anyone looking to stay relevant in this modern marketing era."
—Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer, MarketingProfs
"A must-read operating manual for CMOs who want to lead in the digital age."
—Ajay Agarwal, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures
"We are all digital now. Scott makes it easier than ever for smart marketers to ask the right questions and to discover what they need to know now."
—Seth Godin, Author, All Marketers Are Liars
"An inspiring read for anyone who wants to master the art and science of modern marketing management, from the practice of lean and agile marketing to the design of a scalable engine for marketing innovation."
—Mayur Gupta, SVP and Head of Digital, Healthgrades
"Scott shows how great marketing management today is closer to modern software development than the marketing of yesterday and helps marketers understand how to incorporate those principles to succeed."
—Rishi Dave, CMO, Dun & Bradstreet
"The truth is that marketing has changed, more than almost any other profession, and the majority of marketers have no idea how to effectively manage the process. Hacking Marketing gives you a flashlight and shows you the truth so you never have to look back again."
—Joe Pulizzi, Founder, Content Marketing Institute
"I am a strong believer that Agile has to be the foundation of any successful marketing team. Scott’s book provides timely insight into how to make a shift to agile marketing."
—Joe Staples, CMO, Workfront
