#MillenniumLive on Digital Transformation with Clarence Lee from Cornell University!

This week, #MillenniumLive had the pleasure to sit down with Clarence Lee, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Clarence’s research involves digital marketing and customer analytics applications across various industries.

Get the full scoop in the podcast episode, available here!

In this episode, he covers all the how’s and why’s of data-driven decision making, the impact of building a culture in the workplace, the four stages of digital transformation, the disappearance of the CMO, and the road to AI.

The Four Stages of Digital Transformation

1. The Data Phase getting all your data in the same place.
2. The Analysis Phase identifying your route, and onboarding the data scientists and engineers to prepare for the ride.
3. The Insights Phase realizing you’re not in a car, you’re flying in a fighter jet. You’re taking your findings, navigating around them, and executing decisions.
4. The Proteus Phase wait, you’re actually flying the starship enterprise. Your company is making data-driven solutions, fluently. You now have a “crew”, or a network of teams in charge of the decisions across different products and channels, operating as one unit.

On the disappearance of the CMO role, his research found that CMOs have the shortest tenure of the c-suite, possibly because of the misalignment of the KPIs between the CMO and the rest of the C-Suite. On the road to AI, he goes into great depth about the seismic shift occurring in the marketing industry, specifically in utilizing supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning in digital marketing campaigns.

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Digital Transformation involves ongoing exploration by today’s leaders, and our best advice is to not trek the journey alone. Our Digital Marketing Transformation Assembly coming this March in Las Vegas is set to be an inspiring event featuring our Keynote Speaker Kristin Patrick, Former CMO at PepsiCo and Current CMO at Sugar23.

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