The post-digital world has brought with it a multitude of transformational mandates for the entire horizon of business. The imperatives for achieving content excellence as a core marketing and customer relationship practice mean bringing in methodologies foreign to the majority of business models and practice that are undergoing transformation. These include the often-cited content and media network management capabilities of media companies; but also include methods of non-profits, NGOs, governments and other civil society institutions. This session will go deep into an approach for content-enabled transformation in the context of large global organizations, addressing requirements for alignment across all levels of the organization, and also the vital role of parallel initiatives that both enable and are enabled by content initiatives and the the goals they serve, such as customer engagement platform development and human resource change management.
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Y1 Q3-4 Y2 Q1-2 Y2 Q3-4 Y3
Content-2-Customer + Engagement-Tech process, integrated with strategic planning
Plan
Leads from Global Marketing/Marcoms, Content Strategists, Data
Sciences, BSO rep, and Champions from
Portfolio/Segment/Functions
• Present to champions.
• Align to known goals and opportunities.
• Identify key functional stakeholders for workshops.
• Coordinate leadership alignment and support.
Deploy,
optimize,
iterate.
Walk and
run states.
Engagement-Tech Configuration
Content and application initiative finalization
and production.
Segment and portfolio-level
workshops to develop
preliminary engagement plans.
Informs opps. plan
Strategic Planning + Content-2-
Customer
audience info development
and business goal extraction.
Engagement-Tech
focused workshops.
Engagement-tech
vision and Roadmap.
Content-2-Customer
Content-Product and
Engagement-Vision and
Road-map workshops.
Plan
Content-2-Customer Content-Engagement Workshops
Same as planning, plus additional leaders and/or champion
Marketer, Sales, Customer Care, Legal and Tech Services. Mix
maximum possible globa/area reps. Minimum one engagement
platform architect.
• Deep-dive on content and value added application education with
team.
• Workshop wish-list, opportunities and enablers.
Tech-Engagement Workshops
Same as above. Add necessary
• Enhance engagement vision with platform opportunities.
• Develop preliminary tech vision.
• Identify implications and enablers.
Iterate Content-Product, Engagement-Tech and Organization vision.Plan and develop engagement vision and roadmaps.
Content-2-Customer + Strategic Planning + Extraction
Same as Content-2-Customer Workshops + all portfolio and
segment leads, likely minus legal. Emphasis on marketers.
• Strategists lead extraction of key customer and business goal
information.
• Integration of information into workshop ideation guides.
• Finalize required workshop attendees.
Segment and Portfolio-level Workshops
Same above + legal.
• Map topics and tactics to audience goals
• Customer lifecycle and decision-stage Journey mapping: tactics,
linking calls-to-action, KPIs, SLAs and automation logic. Straw-man
initiatives.
Engagement-Tech Configuration
Engagement-Tech Architects, Data and Platform
Engineers. [Check role titles]. Application
development roles.
• Execute final engagement architecture
implementation plan after input from initiative
finalization.
• Execute app development.
In-general
• Tech and content roadmaps become less “wish-list”, more
prioritized via marketing plan and readiness.
• Tech: Preliminary architecture hardens to requirements and
implementation plan.
• Organization goals harden into change management and resource
plan. Stabilizes over time.
Content and App Initiative Finalization
Various roles from previous as owners,
stakeholders and approvers. Internal and
external production agencies. BSO-heavy
depending on services offered.
• See “Final Engagement Structuring” on Content-
2-Customer timeline.
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Editorial
Content Strategy and Audience
Development
Content Marketing Strategists
“Editors in Chief”
(Global & Local/Area)
Customer
Intel.
Topical Editorial Leads
“Section Editors”
(Global & Local/Area)
Segmentation, Insight & CRM
Specialists
(Global & Local/Area)
Social
Mngmnt.
Niche Community Channel
Specialist
(Global & Local/Area)
• Segment or community topic area focus
• Product and services area focus
Leader of Audience & Content Strategy
Content Production & Management
Leader of Content Production &
Management
Content & Publications
Operations Analyst
Content Marketing Content
Producers
Producers&
Makers
Product Content Producers
Content Creators.
(See next slide)
Content
Managers
Content Modeling, Tagging &
Metadata Specialists
Product Content Managers
Content Delivery Specialist
Vendor Services Lead
Systems Administrators
Business Process Manager
Process&
Infrastructure
Analytics & Optimization: Product &
Content Marketing
Manager of Analytics, Insight &
Conversion
Content Conversion Rate
Optimization Architect
Data Analytics and Insight
Specialists
SEO Optimization Specialists
eCommerce Strategy and Publication
Development
Leader of eCommerce Content
Global Portfolio Strategists
Locale/Area Portfolio Strategist
Global Catalog and Syndication
Producers
Regional/Area Catalog and
Syndication Producers
Portofilio
Content
Product
Publications
Customer Application Strategy &
Development
Leader Application Strategy &
Development
Application Strategy Analysts
Application Requirements
Analysts
Interaction Designers
App. Graphical Designers (May
be in Production Team)
Information Architects
IT Application Lead
Application IT Architects
Application Developers
Engagement Platform Analysis &
Implementation
Engagement Solutions Architects
Implementation execution roles
Critical functions for engagement execution
See next slide for adapted version for PSD US. Boxed in red are particularly crucial change management opportunities for success.
Leader of Content & Conversion Optimization
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Modified Marcomms roles
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Preparation
work
Role(s) & purchasing
influence
Role(s) goals & pain-points
Role(s) tasks, contexts &
channels: Info, comm, util. & $
Customer/Channel purchase
stages, selling stages
Identify content and tools
role(s) find valuable
Identify go-to-market inputs:
forces & priorities
Identify competitors
Architect &
produce
Trend, listening, metrics,
approach
Influencer engagement plan
Competitor & audience
research gaps
Identify tactics & engage
channel mix
Editorial Calendar & Pub.
Plan(2)
Identify topics & keywords
Production plan(3)
Asset gap & opportunity
audit(2)
Link building & guest
blogging
Goals & KPIs: Business,
audience
Engagement & automation
rules, SLAs
Identified prioritized
audiences
Content curation, creation, management, delivery and
optimization.
Deploy &
optimize
Activate & monitor
Measure, listen, adjust. Daily,
weekly, monthly, quarterly and
yearly reporting.
Workshop
Topics and tactics mapping
Tactics and pain-point
mapping
Journey mapping: Tactics to
stages, Linkage & Stage-flow
Goals and KPIs
Straw man campaigns &
Initiatives
Content
Operations
Executive buy-in
Leadership and steering
committees
Preliminary resource and
owneship mapping.
Resource allocation and
ownership matrix
Pilot prioritization.
Resource commitment
Strategic landscape, market
priorities and gaps.
Operational roadmap
Depth audits as needed
High-level strategies, visions
and manifestos
19. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Role(s) & purchasing influence
Role(s) goals & pain-points
Role(s) tasks, contexts & channels: Info, comm, util. & $
Customer/Channel purchase stages, selling stages
Identify content and tools role(s) find valuable
Identify go-to-market inputs:
forces & priorities
Ideal prep-work period
Topics and tactics mapping
Ideal workshop period
Tactics and pain-point mapping
Journey mapping: Tactics to stages, Linkage & Stage-flow
Goals and KPIs
Straw man Campaign/Initiatives
Identify competitors
Late-start preparation (1)
NOTES
(1)Feasibility of
plans or ability
to do adequate
prep-work TBD.
Efforts could
result in laying
groundwork for
following
makreting
season.
(2)See full c2c
checklist for
more steps
related to this
activity.
Planning, deployment & monitoring
Trend, listening, metrics, approach
Influencer engagement plan
Competitor & audience research gaps
Identify tactics & engage channel mix
Editorial Calendar & Pub. Plan(2)
Identify topics & keywords
Production plan(3)
Asset gap & opportunity audit(2)
Link building & guest blogging
Goals & KPIs: Business, audience
Engagement & automation rules, SLAs
Activate & monitor
Measure, listen, adjust. Weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting.
Y-2 prep-work for new practices.
Campaign/Initiative deploy
Y-2 workshop
Campaign structuring
Y-2 editorial
calendar for
ongoing Y-1
practices.
Prep-workWorkshopping
Ops-plans,
budgets
Ops-plans,
budgets
Budget and resource re-alignment if late start. Else efforts may be
judged non-feasible.
Identified prioritized audiences
Content curation, creation, management, delivery and optimization.
C2C processes
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Silo-smashing collaboration
• Ownership and alignment silos
(tugs-of war and/or finger pointing)
• Who owns governance?
• Who owns the strategy?
• Who owns the customer?
• Who owns the audience?
• Who owns the publication?
• Who owns resourcing?
• Who owns the content?
• Who owns the engagement channels?
7 deadly
sins of silos
Ownership gaps
Control conflict
Process disconnect
False representation
Finger pointing
Redundancy
Hoarding
Marketing
Support
PR
HR
Sales
Global
Entity
Regional
Entity
Country
Entity
Admin
IT