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An Inside Look at the 7 Truths of Marketing IBM Teaches Its 5,000 Global Marketers

Ari Sheinkin, VP of Marketing Analytics, IBM


Making data-driven decisions is a challenge for organizations of any size. Imagine trying to lead a marketing organization of over 5,000 people to intelligently leverage data for their decisions. That is exactly what IBM has to do.

Ari Sheinkin, VP of Marketing Analytics at IBM, was tasked with training and enabling those 5,000 marketers to make more data-driven decisions, fundamentally changing the status quo of IBM’s current marketing strategy.

In this video replay from MarketingSherpa Summit, Sheinkin shared his team’s journey to change the way IBM’s marketing department worked, building a framework which integrates analytics and data into an overall marketing system. He also revealed the seven key truths that IBM has learned and that every marketer within their organization needs to know.

As Sheinkin says, “Every engagement must have a purpose.” Watch this session to get ideas for using data to ensure that your organization has purposeful engagements with customers and prospects.

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