2. What we’ll cover today
IT vs marketing, the key pain points and how to address
them
Digital team structures, common approaches
How to reach digital maturity
5. IT vs Marketing – the battle ground
Marketing IT
High Risk Appetite vs Risk Averse
6. IT vs Marketing – the battle ground
Marketing IT
Customer Driven vs System Driven
7. IT vs Marketing – the battle ground
Marketing IT
Instant Gratification vs Under-resourced and
Over-allocated
8. Key ways to help collaboration?
Agree on mutual objectives
Set out combined strategies and priorities
Share budget responsibility
Co-locate staff
Hey, that sounds like a digital team!
9. Where does the digital team fit?
Source: econsultancy UK-US 2008
10. How is the team structured?
Source: http://www.ssireview.org/ 2011
11. How is the team structured?
Source: http://www.ssireview.org/ 2011
12. How is the team structured?
Source: http://www.ssireview.org/ 2011
13. Still better than most of these..
Source:
http://www.bonkersworld.net/
14. The pathway to maturity
INFORMAL
INDEPENDENT
HYBRID
Source: econsultancy UK-US 2008
15. This is a slow process
Key stumbling blocks:
Digital is working in isolation from the rest of the
organisation
The wrong person in the digital role
Digital team is overloaded and is unable to prioritise
There is a lack of digital vision
There is a lack of organisational vision
17. And what about your customer?
They don’t care about your internal struggles, they see
you as one company and expect you to all behave in
the same way
18. What does this mean for you?
Marketing and comms are becoming more technology
driven and analytical
Our customers expect us to keep up with the their ways
of communicating
We need to ensure that within our businesses we work
with each other to reach a higher level of digital maturity
more quickly, rather than work against each other and
remain stagnant.
Stanford Social Innovation ReviewHow it all started. Unstructured and un-managed. Does not provide customer with one brand experience.
Seems to be where many companies are heading. Would think this is how a lot of unis approach it. Confusing user experience.Duplication of role and internal competition rather than encourage collaboration.
Very popular. Like a mini-agency. Also often a good way to create momentum and gain an important role for digital in org. Means a good head of is required.Fits in with common “silo” model and budgets are easily allocated and managed.Not scalable long term though. Too bogged down with old to keep up with new.Too many new areas in digital and team too small. See Forrester research.
Central area sets strategic goals and looks fw. But is not all-controlling of departmental team initiatives.Vision driven, rather than task drivenEach department has own skill set based on needs and supported by central unit and central specialised skills.Where social media model is ideally headed as well.Hard to implement though as many silo’d organisations would not be open to this type of structure. Is it Utopia?