RoleofMarketing
We’re All Marketers Now
It’s not often that a business headline captures your attention and then continues to make you think. “Is your entire company thinking like a marketer? It should be.” This simple question and answer appeared in a recent email newsletter from McKinsey, linking to a series of articles. It made me consider how attracting and respecting […]
BMC’s Martyn Etherington Discusses “Lean Marketing” and the Role of a “Growth CMO”
Martyn Etherington is the Chief Marketing Officer of BMC Software, a Texas-based IT services/consulting and enterprise application software company with annual revenues of $2.2 billion. He is a strong believer in the importance of acting as a “Growth CMO,” and often attributes success to adopting a sense of “fearlessness” in that role. Additionally, he views marketing […]
How Marketing Shifts of the Past Two Decades are Shaping the Future
At the end of January, The Internationalist, the company I founded at the beginning of the 21st century to connect the people and ideas in international marketing, celebrated 20 years. While that’s a milestone for any independent venture, it also caused me to look at how marketing has evolved over the last two decades and perhaps where it might […]