Sep 28, 2012
Reading list: Blank checks and the marketing ideal
The CMO survey also suggests a crucial obstacle to achieving the vision of marketing: the role of the CMO vis-à-vis the CEO and other C-suite members.[...]A statistical analysis of the correlation between the Full-Scale Marketing Index and top management’s view of marketing [...] suggests that top management’s evaluation of marketing is indeed a cause of marketing success and not a consequence.The full article can be accessed from the link above, while the full IBM study requires a registering with IBM Institute for Business Value.Meanwhile, early in August, Professor Mohan Sawhney co-authored an article in strategy + business with Sanjay Khosla (Kraft Foods) about a strategy used by Kraft Foods to boost organic growth. They dub this management technique "blank checks":
What if resources were not a constraint? If managers were free to dream and act big without worrying about busting their budgets, they would be limited not by resources, but by their imagination.The article elaborates on the concept, outlines the steps to implement it, provides some tips to manage the process and reviews case studies within Kraft.
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