Presentation made at recent Data Analytics Bootcamp in Malaysia by a marketing guy who is : passionate about Data and Insights, can read and analyse data from a marketer's perspective, and thus help connect brands with consumers, based on insights.
2. This Discussion ….
• Evolution of Data and Data Analytics in the pre and post Social Media Era
3. Part I : Some Personal Impressions
Data, Big Data and Data Analytics
4. Back to Basics
Marketing
Insights
Data
Customer
Pre-1990s
OR
Pre-Social Media Era
Since 1990s :Social Media Era
• Proliferation of Social Media
• Transparency
• Privacy
• Complex Decision Making
and Tracking : Attribution
Models, etc
• Competitive Framework
• E-Commerce
Marketing
Insights
Customer
Analytics
Big Data
5. Data/Big-Data and Effect on Stakeholders
Customer
Customer
Service
Creative Ag
IT Dept
CEO’s Office
Finance
Sales
Marketing
Mkt
Research
Big Data
Start-up
6. Organisations
• Who really owns the data?
• Is ‘Big Data’ still the buzz word for the real users where applicable?
7. Talent & Resource
• Lure towards ‘data science’ as a career: seen as the new ‘sexy’ thing;
8. ‘Creative’ Brand Communications Agency
• Realisation dawns of the importance of ‘Data’, finally!
• From waving the flag of ‘Database Mktg’ to gradually embracing ‘Data Analytics’
9. Suits in an Agency
• Not exactly their cup of tea but at the same time feel it’s high time they got into it
11. Marketing
• High time ownership of data was taken
• “Differentiate or Die” to “Data Insights or Die”: Use Data (and
insights) to do things differently
12. IT Dept
• Tasked to manage and store, although may not necessarily be aware
of what’s in it
13. Sales
• Continue to be at the receiving end to collect ‘field-data’
• Technology?
14. Customer Service
• Faithfully carrying out the ‘script’, often even aimlessly
• Social Media = 24 hour Customer Service – airing of grievances in public
21. Customer
• ‘Social’, at a cost: no personalisation, still just an ID (or #) and exposed,
with little privacy and subjected to spam
22. Ultimate Analysis
• Social Media Era à Importance of Insights à (Big) Data à Analytics
• Data (and anything related) suddenly wears a new avatar of being young and sexy
• Different brands at different stages of the Data-centric Marketing Lifecycle
• Data Ownership, Understanding and Application (in Marketing) remains a ?
• State (or rather plight) of the Customer who is ultimately the source of the data
• Fundamentals haven’t changed; scale has changed; has to be all about the
Customer