What are the barriers to CMO’s leading the Corporate Growth Agenda?

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Today’s guest post is by Randall Beard, a leading and award winning Chief Marketing Officer and General Management executive with 25+ years global experience across consumer packaged goods, financial services and high-touch service brands, including Nielsen, Procter & Gamble, American Express, and UBS. He is currently Global EVP & General Manager at Nielsen IAG, responsible for Consumer Packaged Goods. To read more about his thinking, visit Randall Beard’s Blog.

The CMO’s job is simple—to drive growth, right? As Lou Gerstner ex-IBM and American Express CEO once put it: the role of Marketing is to build the brand and deliver a great customer experience. But is it really that simple?

At the recent CMO Club Summit in San Francisco, I was part of a panel discussion with Joe Ennen, SVP Consumer Brands at Safeway and Scott Thurm, Management Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, titled "CMO's as Leaders of the Corporate Growth Agenda."

Scott led off the discussion by reframing the topic, asking, “What are the barriers to CMO’s leading the corporate growth agenda?” Joe, Scott and I spent the session discussing and debating this important question.

Barriers to CMO’s Leading the Corporate Growth Agenda

CEO/CMO Alignment - I told the group that "the best CMO is a CEO who believes in Marketing." The CMO's ability to lead the corporate growth agenda starts with alignment with and support from the CEO. Not all business models and CMO’s are created equal. The role of Marketing in an organization can vary widely. And the CMO role can range from a narrow Marcom role all the way to something like a Chief Growth Officer. The CEO and CMO must be aligned on the role of Marketing in the organization for the CMO to effectively lead the growth agenda.

Growth Means More Than Marketing - The CMO has to think more broadly than Marketing. What are all of the potential growth drivers - Marketing or otherwise ? Companies such as Zappos.com have actually gone so far as to define a non-Marketing function like customer service as Marketing. A critical part of the CMO's job is to understand the business model and all potential drivers-whether inside Marketing or not. This is becoming even more important as digital and social media blur the lines between Marketing, Public Affairs and Customer Service.

At UBS, we learned from Corporate Reputation research that being “open and transparent” was a key driver of reputation, and that reputation scores correlated with “willingness to refer others” and other business growth metrics. This led the Marketing function to explore programs to communicate to stakeholders in more open and transparent ways.
At American Express, we learned that offering free “Special Merchant Offers” to consumers using their Gift Card drove significantly higher purchase intent. This led Marketing to spearhead the development of partnerships with key consumer preferred merchants—and to market these offers as a key benefit.

Voice of the Customer – In Joe’s view, another key barrier to the CMO driving the corporate growth agenda is customer neglect. The CMO needs to continually advocate for keeping the customer front and center. All CMO’s could learn from A.G. Lafley, ex CEO of Procter & Gamble, who continually reminded employees that “the consumer is boss.”

Customer satisfaction surveys not only measure satisfaction. They also measure the important factors contributing to satisfaction and quantify the relationship between those factors and satisfaction. Understanding these drivers enables Marketing to define areas outside Marketing that are central to driving growth.

For example, at UBS we learned that client contact frequency was an important satisfaction driver—more was better up to a threshold where satisfaction leveled off. Yet, the majority of client advisers were contacting clients well below the threshold. This led to a concentrated effort to improve contact frequency—and drive growth.

Connecting Customer Needs with Enterprise Assets – I stressed the important role the CMO plays in getting the organization to think about the entirety of the enterprise’s assets and capabilities. Connecting customer needs with assets from outside a business unit is a great way to drive growth—and one that organizational structure often stymies.

Crest: Consumers had an unmet need for whiter teeth, and paste formulations simply didn’t do the job. A smart R&D person connected this need with synthetic bleach technology from laundry and substrate technology from paper making to create—voila--Crest WhiteStrips.
Gift Card consumers wanted to buy the cards in retail. The American Express Gift Card group had no relationships with grocery and drug store chains. So, the organization leveraged the Amex Establish Services organizations retailer relationships to facilitate introductions and help gain distribution in over 70k locations in less than two years.

Keys to CMO Success

CMO’s clearly have a tough job, with an average lifespan of just 28 months. Lou Gerstner’s formula for CMO success is a good starting point, but CMO’s need to go further. Building the brand and delivering a great customer experience plus driving the corporate growth agenda can help CMO’s and their firms be more successful in the future.

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