From the MarTech Conference in San Francisco, California, March 31-April 1, 2015. SESSION: Establishing A New Marketing Technology Function In A Complex Environment. PRESENTATION: Marketing Technology at LinkedIn - Lessons From The Trenches - Given by Saad Hameed, @SaadVirtus - Linkedin, Head of Marketing Technology
9. Lesson #3: Build Technology Incubator to Propel Ideas
• Determine business, tech., & ops owners
• Gather high level use cases
• Assess vendors & in-house solutions
• Recommend final solution
• SCRUM based Pilot
• Go/No-Go based on Pilot learning
• Go/No-Go based on Pilot results
• Transfer knowledge of pilot to stakeholders
• Scale the solution globally
14. Consumers Are Losing Trust in Campaign Based
Marketing!
14“The Power Of Customer Context Beyond Campaigns: Build A Contextual Marketing Engine”, Forrester Research, Inc., April 14, 2014
15. It’s the Customer Context, stupid
Customer Behavioral Context
Customer Needs Context
Customer Communication
Context
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16. Solution: Machine Learning Enabled Campaigns
Single source of truth (SSOT) Datamart
Real-time Intelligent Marketing Cloud,
that recommends the right content/offer/channel based
on the context/lifecycle and product
fit/propensity/engagement of the member/buyer
Marketing Automation solution/LinkedIn
Lead Accelerator orchestrates the
communication of right offer/content to customers
across all channels
Marketing Automation
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LinkedIn Corporation
Patent Pending
17. SUMMARY
1. Strategy and Plan Before Tactics
2. Optimize Customer Experience
3. Build Technology Incubator to Propel Ideas
4. Talent + Agile Process = Success^2
5. Innovation Hacking Leads to Groundbreaking
Ideas
6. Challenge the Norm – Break the Mold