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Customer experience has become the primary method of competitive differentiation between most brands today. While most companies claim that customers and their needs drive decisions and priority within their organizations, when it comes time to prioritize customer needs, it can often be more difficult and less clear exactly how and what to do.

Between consumer demands for more personalized and greater data privacy and competitive pressures to provide better omnichannel customer experiences, brands are faced with a dilemma: Build a foundation for the future of customer relationships or lose relevancy in a crowded marketplace.

The Agile Brand Guide to Customer Journey Orchestration Platforms: Evaluating, Buying, and Implementing a CJO for Marketers by Greg Kihlström explores marketers’ need for a customer journey orchestration, as well as the roles a CJO platform should play, the different types on the market, and how to evaluate and implement a platform once you have selected it.

Digital Experience Platforms (DXPs) enable marketers to create more engaging digital experiences on mobile and desktop devices, and form a core part of a brand’s marketing technology infrastructure. While customers interact with brands on a multitude of channels, an organization’s website and the platform that powers that site are still a critical hub in a brand’s customer experience. This is one of the reasons a DXP is so important.

While there is a lot of conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential applications in marketing and customer experience, there are still more question than answers around how to use it effectively. Within this realm, Generative AI tools that create text, images, or even music and videos are increasingly being evaluated and used by marketing professionals. There remain several aspects to consider when utilizing these tools, however.

In this sixth audiobook in the best-selling Agile Brand Guide series, the successful planning, implementation, and optimization of an organization’s marketing technology stack is explored. The Agile Brand Guide to MarTech Stack Evaluation by best-selling author Greg Kihlström gives marketing professionals a solid overview of the space in a short guide format and explores how marketing leaders and aspiring leaders can be successful in their implementation of a marketing operations function.

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital transformation, The Composable Roadmap by Chad Solomonson and Greg Kihlström emerges as a beacon for organizations striving to navigate the complexities of modern technology architectures. This isn't just a book; it's a manifesto for change, a blueprint for building a future where flexibility and agility are at the heart of business operations.

In this first Agile Brand Guide, Customer Data Platforms are explored and demystified. The book explores marketers’ need for a Customer Data Platform, as well as the roles a CDP should play, the different types on the market, as well as how to evaluate and implement a platform once you have selected it.

We are living in the age of experience. With the proliferation of tools that allow better and more holistic design of customer experience and employee experience, comes an increased ability to measure, analyze, and optimize. This new age of increased integration means that successful CX and EX involves many teams and departments within an organization to become successful.

The work of a marketing team continues to expand to include more channels, quicker response times, and more variations of content, offers, and campaigns that personalization demands. Agile marketing can help brands be more nimble and adaptive to both internal and external pressures. Doing this requires a combination of people and processes that utilize methods like Scrum and the related practices and roles associated with creating, managing, and completing work utilizing agile principles.

What do our words truly mean, whether they are posted on a website, spoken on a shareholder call, projected on a wall in an internal meeting, or shared with a customer? While eloquently written prose may inspire and engage any audience for a short time, it is our actions that define both our priorities as well as our future success. Our priorities are what we do not what we saywe’d like to do. This premise forms the foundation of Priority is Action: 7 Principles for Better Strategies, Decisions, and Outcomes.

Marketing moves at a faster pace than ever. Many teams have implemented practices utilizing Agile principles, such as Scrum, Kanban, or similar methods, to varying success. While the principles of Agile approaches offer the prioritization, collaboration, and focus on continuous improvement that can provide great results, many teams struggle with implementation of these methods.

We find ourselves at an inflection point in the relationship between brands and their audiences, where customers and employees are demanding better and more valuable experiences. Companies must keep up with this demand in order to remain competitive. This includes competition for both customers as well as employees. More importantly, while many organizations have traditionally focused on external-facing initiatives first, it is the ones which start internally that have the greatest potential to provide long-term positive benefits.

In this latest audiobook in the best-selling Agile Brand Guide series, the successful planning, implementation, and optimization of several types of real-time communication with customers into an organization’s marketing technology stack is explored. The Agile Brand Guide: Conversational Marketing by best-selling author Greg Kihlström gives marketing professionals a solid overview of the space in a short guide format. The audiobook explores how marketing leaders and aspiring leaders can be successful in their implementation of conversational marketing within the customer experience.

This audiobook explores how marketing leaders and aspiring leaders can be successful in their implementation of high-performing and continuously improving marketing teams, and includes insights and interviews with some of the thought leaders in marketing and customer experience....