Episode 9 Show Notes:

Peter Domican talks to Roland Smart from Oracle about his book The Agile Marketer: Turning Customer Experience Into Your Competitive Advantage published by Wiley.

Agile provides the foundation for alignment between the marketing and product management sides. It can unleash a whole array of new marketing opportunities for growth hacking as well as for "baking" marketing directly into your products or services. Beyond that, as a discipline it can serve as a bridge to strategic alignment, positioning the chief marketing officer alongside the chief product officer as the two primary drivers of the business.

Written by a premier practitioner of modern marketing, this book will provide you with:

• Insights on the evolution of product development and management in the organization—and why marketing must partner with them in the new era
• An understanding of Agile methods and their application to marketing
• A plan for integrating Agile with your traditional methods
• Tactics to drive alignment with product management
• A pathway to becoming the steward of customer experience

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