Forrester Decisions for B2B Marketing Executives

B2B organizations rely on the CMO to identify forces that create opportunities. You must move fast and build a strong coalition among your peers to move the business forward. In doing so, you’ll drive meaningful change, proactively engineer alignment, and harness the collectiv capabilities to ignite customer-obsessed growth.

Forrester Decisions for B2B Marketing Executives helps senior marketing leaders envision and execute a marketing strategy that focuses the business on customer and partner ecosystem value through a proven strategic approach. With a combination of bold vision, curated tools and frameworks, and hands-on guidance, you’ll drive measurable impact on growth, retention, and advocacy.

Ignite Customer-Obsessed Growth

Align And Grow The Business

Co-create and execute a customer-obsessed growth strategy in partnership with sales and product leaders to accelerate growth.

Enhance The Brand Experience

Build differentiated brand and communication strategies that drive awareness, perception, and reputation preference for the business.

Expand Value With Partners

Develop, enable, and engage partners at scale to drive loyalty and amplify revenue and growth throughout the ecosystem.

Key Priorities

As a B2B marketing executive, you’re under constant pressure to deliver on today’s initiatives while staying one step ahead of what’s coming tomorrow. Forrester Decisions for B2B Marketing Executives is tailored to help you address your most pressing priorities:

  • Evolve Marketing Strategy To Accelerate Growth
  • Develop An Adaptive Marketing And Investment Plan
  • Drive Brand Experience And Effective Corporate Communications
  • Design And Implement An Integrated Campaign Strategy
  • Demonstrate The Business Value Of Marketing
  • Build A High-Performing Marketing Organization And Operating Model
  • Modernize Partner Ecosystem Marketing Strategy
  • Elevate Partner Demand, Engagement, And Enablement

What’s Included In This Service

Forrester Decisions services are uniquely built to give you strategic insights for your role as a business leader in your organization and help you deliver on your functional role as a division or department leader. Here’s what’s inside:

Stay ahead of changing customer and market dynamics, plan for the future, and set your strategy with leading research. ​

  • Customer obsession research
  • Customer insights​
  • Trends and predictions​
  • Market forecasts​
  • Technology and service provider landscapes

Empower your team to conquer your priorities with proven strategic models and plug-and-play templates. ​

  • KPIs and peer benchmarks​
  • Assessments​
  • Strategic models​
  • Strategy templates​
  • Forrester Wave™ evaluations for your function
  • Certification courses

Accelerate progress and de-risk decisions with best practices tailored to you and your team​.

  • Guidance sessions​
  • Peer discussions
  • Event attendance​
  • Dedicated relationship management
Dun & Bradstreet

How Dun & Bradstreet Aligns For Customer Centricity

Customer centricity is a guiding principle for Dun & Bradstreet. Learn how Forrester worked with D&B to align its campaign strategy and messaging around customer needs.

Veeam Software

Streamline And Communicate The Marketing Plan

Learn how Veeam Software uses Forrester’s B2B Marketing Plan On A Page to set expectations with stakeholders.

SAS Institute

How SAS Aligned Marketing And Sales

Wanting to prove how marketing could turbocharge sales efforts, SAS turned to Forrester. Hear how implementing Forrester’s Plan-On-A-Page methodology tightened marketing-sales alignment — and proved marketing’s strategic value in the process.

Twilio

How Twilio Supercharged Its Brand Awareness

To make inroads with new audiences, Twilio needed its marketing teams working in unison. Learn how Forrester helped.

Service Model Spotlight

The Forrester B2B Marketing Gyroscope

The B2B Marketing Gyroscope is Forrester’s view on the expanding remit of the B2B CMO.

Support For Executives, Leaders, And Team Members

Forrester Decisions for B2B Marketing Executives offers multiple levels of service to ensure the right expertise and degree of support for you and your team. All service levels provide access to research, tools, data, and certification courses.

 

VIP Leader 

Leverage support from a trusted partner and former executive who understands your challenges and supports your strategic agenda every step of the way.

Availability may vary by geographic region.

Leader 

Procure deep expertise across your functional discipline through expert-led guidance sessions that help you apply unique research, tools, and data to your specific needs.

Team 

Develop a common language and toolset to strengthen your team’s expertise and skill sets with access to relevant certification courses and insights.

Meet A Few Of Our B2B Marketing Analysts

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