Develop Your Annual Marketing Strategy

Establish marketing leadership and add value.

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  • A “talk-shop”, lecture, or monologue.
  • A session where Info-Tech does all the work. We work with our members.
  • An engagement of more than 4 days.

A Workshop Is…

  • A set of facilitated activity-based exercises aimed at helping our members and their teams make key business decisions.
  • Collaborative discussion meant to drive consensus and decision making between Business leaders around digital directions.
  • Pre-packaged in scope to be delivered within 1-week and built off Info-Tech’s best practice research.

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Module 1: Set Your Market & Business Context

The Purpose

Understand the landscape

Key Benefits Achieved

Participants will be able to identify key market trends and understand how these trends impact their organization, setting the stage for informed strategy development.

Activities: Outputs:
1.1 Review marketing department perception
1.2 Analyze competition & market share (optional) and positioning
  • Competitive landscape, brand/product placement, and market share are documented
1.3 Document strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats by completing a SWOT analysis
  • Business’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) are identified

Module 2: Create Your Strategic Framework

The Purpose

Strategic alignment and planning

Key Benefits Achieved

Participants will leave with a clear framework for aligning their marketing strategy with company goals.

Activities: Outputs:
2.1 Set your marketing vision and ensure it’s aligned with business strategy and values
  • Marketing vision statement and key ways to achieve it are defined
2.2 Define your strategic goals & objectives
  • Business and marketing goals are documented and aligned
2.3 Implement a SMART framework
  • Marketing objectives are specific, measurable, actionable, relevant and time-bound (SMART)

Module 3: Build Your Execution Plan

The Purpose

Create a plan for prioritized marketing initiatives.

Key Benefits Achieved

Established roadmap with key milestones.

Activities: Outputs:
3.1 Define and prioritize your strategic initiatives based on impact and feasibility
  • Key marketing initiatives are assessed and prioritized
3.2 Map current resources to programs and identify gaps
  • Resources are evaluated
3.3 Develop an implementation roadmap with key milestones
  • Implementation roadmap with key milestones established

Module 4: Determine Investment & Impact

The Purpose

Evaluate the impact and risk of your plan. Determine the investment requirements.

Key Benefits Achieved

Completed roadmap with identified impacts, risks, and required investment.

Activities: Outputs:
4.1 Determine investment requirements and impacts
  • Budget and KPIs are set
  • Capabilities maturity levels are evaluated and prioritized
4.2 Register risk & mitigation strategy
  • Potential risks are assessed
4.3 Evaluate marketing department capabilities, priorities, and structure
  • The marketing department structure is defined, and gaps are identified
4.4 Schedule key initiatives timeline
  • The marketing initiatives timeline is mapped out.
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