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Business Wire 14-Jan-2019 8:15 AM
Gartner Reveals Six Predictions to Guide Marketing Leaders Through Uncertain Times Ahead
Shifting consumer behaviors, mounting regulatory pressures, organizational shifts and disruptive automation combine to pose a real and destabilizing threat to many marketing leaders and their strategies for the years ahead, according to Gartner Inc.
In the report titled, "Predicts 2019: Marketing Seeks a New Equilibrium," Gartner analysts predict six critical changes that will help guide marketing leaders while navigating this new terrain.
"These are exciting, but uncertain times for CMOs (chief marketing officers) and marketing leaders. From the promise of data and analytics, to the lure of customer experience (CX) and everything in between, marketers have vast opportunities to set themselves apart from the competition, but equal challenges to overcome in order to do so," said Charles Golvin, senior director and analyst at Gartner. "Finding the right balance to successfully leverage marketing technology and emerging trends will be critical to marketing's success over the course of the next couple of years."
Gartner analysts said these predictions will help marketers better understand and prepare for the uncertain times ahead:
These predictions grow out of four key forces that are buffeting marketers today:
Additional details on Gartner's marketing predictions for 2019 will be presented in the upcoming webinar Panel Discussion: 2019 Marketing Predictions on January 21, 2019 — and exclusively to Gartner for Marketers clients in the report "Predicts 2019: Marketing Seeks a New Equilibrium."
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