CMO Council's Strategic Interest Group: The CMO-CIO Alignment Imperative

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CMO-CIO Alignment Imperative

Driving Revenue Through Customer Relevance Aligning the CMO and CIO to Achieve Agile Intelligent Marketing

Driving Revenue Through Customer Relevance Aligning the CMO and CIO to Achieve Agile Intelligent Marketing. The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and the Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network, in partnership with Accenture, has launched a new campaign focused on critical alignment and partnership between the role of the CMO and the Chief Information Officer (CIO). The thought leadership initiative will delve into issues, challenges, and the wealth of opportunity that lies in the alignment of technology and marketing in order to deliver an optimized, relevant customer experience.

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Curated Facts & Stats

Our Kantar experts have identified ten trends - some emerging and others more established - and mapped out a point of view for the year ahead, including topics like purchasing agents, synthetic data, AI-native decision making, brand building in the age of algorithms and the rise of micro-communities.

Source: Kantar

Marketing isn’t facing another cycle of change—we’re in the middle of a structural reset in how value gets created. The evidence is everywhere. AI is transforming how people discover, evaluate, and choose brands. Business leaders are asking marketing teams to deliver real, measurable value from AI.

Source: Iterable

In 2026, the focus for many will evolve from cost-saving to measurable improvements in marketing outcomes, with brands increasingly experimenting with Gen AI to power growth and not just back-end efficiencies.

Source: Wfanet

Discover how CMOs are tackling 2026’s biggest challenges—from ROI pressure to AI integration—and turning disruption into growth.

Source: Nielsen IQ

Chief marketing officers are at the center of enterprise reinvention as AI transforms business at unprecedented speed and consumer behavior evolves in real time. The familiar marketing funnel has lost relevance as people consume in all new ways.

Source: PWC

As organizations head into 2025, marketing faces extraordinary expectations and CMOs cannot risk incremental change when the enterprise expects transformative results.

Source: Gartner

CMOs must bridge marketing strategy and operations; and create a strategy framework to avoid mistaking tactical execution for agile planning

Source: Gartner

Macroeconomic trends, first-party data and the influence of artificial intelligence will all be instrumental for marketers next year.

Source: Marketing Week

The relevance of artificial intelligence (AI) in digital marketing is growing. According to McKinsey, generative AI’s impact on productivity could add trillions of dollars in value to the global economy. In 2024, marketers should make use of AI-powered technologies to optimise performance.

Source: Marketing Week

With constant change in the marketing, media, and tech landscape, it’s nearly impossible for CMOs to keep up with what the job demands. And let’s add the inherent misalignment between the CEO and CMO around customer obsession to the list of stressors. The good news? CMOs who show up as strategic business leaders don’t just drive results but are viable CEO successors.

Source: Forrester
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Program Themes

  • CMO - CIO Alignment
  • MarTech

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