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Posts Tagged ‘CMO turnover

The 3-Steps in the CMO’s Life-Cycle

Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: July 11, 2008

I recently had the opportunity to speak in the Republic of Ireland as well as Northern Ireland. While there I was interviewed on BBC Radio Ulster regarding my take on how to deal with the economic downturn facing some companies and industries. You can listen to the interview if you like.
 
While speaking to one of my [...]

A bit more on CMO turnover

Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: December 4, 2007

The business week article that Ralph mentioned in the previous post also noted a “fatal” flaw in the role of marketing in most companies. If you read the article (can’t find it on the BW website to link to, sorry), you’ll notice that the apparent definition of marketing (which is vague in all cases, as [...]

CMO instability due to lack of process management

Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: December 1, 2007

The current issue of Business Week has an extensive article on the short tenure of CMOs.  It seems that they have a shorter life than any other position in the C-suite. 
This really isn’t very surprising to us.  After all, few people define “marketing” correctly, in our opinion, and as the article so well documents, [...]