CMOs Stuck Around Even Longer in '08†

Embrace of Technology, Business Objectives Helps Increase Tenure Again

Advertising Age, January 26, 2009 — The Dow may be down, but things are looking up for CMOs.

Marketing chiefs are embracing new technology and doing a better job of synchronizing their departments' efforts with overall business goals, and as a consequence their tenure is increasing.

Producing Accountability in Hard Times†

CMOs' Perennial Charge Is Even Tougher Now -- but Not Impossible

Advertising Age, January 12, 2009 — Accountability is clearly keeping marketers up at night as the economic crisis continues to thread its way across industries around the globe and 2009 budgets come under greater scrutiny. So with economies performing badly in ways not seen in decades, all marketers should have a method-based and actionable answer to why marketing dollars are not a dispensable spending item but instead an investment with measurable ROI.