Agile Marketing - by Neil Perkin (Paperback)

About the Book

Apply and scale agile processes and principles to create innovative and responsive marketing, to drive growth and adapt to today's changing and unpredictable environment.

Book Synopsis

Create and apply responsive and adaptive marketing principles and practices with this guide to redesigning marketing structures, processes and culture, to be fit for purpose in today's changeable environment.

Agile Marketing is an essential and practical roadmap to transforming your marketing by applying agile principles at scale and overcoming mindset and culture challenges to enable greater efficiency and quicker response times. Covering areas such as putting data and automation at the centre of agility, measuring success and creating and maintaining space for innovation, it features a range of invaluable frameworks, practical guidance and insightful examples from organizations such as Dell and Pepsi.

Written by a recognized agile expert and marketing thought-leader who has worked with marketing teams in some of the largest global organizations, Agile Marketing also explores how to empower high-performing marketing teams and develop and pivot agile campaigns and content. Featuring tips and tools throughout and a step-by-step agile marketing transformation blueprint, it is a crucial resource for creating effective and streamlined marketing today and into the future.

Review Quotes

"In the modern flux of culture, marketing can be confusing, for brands, agencies and customers. Neil has written the essential playbook for shaping your marketing organization to be as agile as culture requires."-- "Faris Yakob, co-founder of Genius Steals LLC, author of Paid Attention"

"Neil is able to articulate the essential elements of agile ways of working in a truly engaging way using easy to understand models, great storytelling and relevant examples."-- "Christel Kinning, Chief Transformation and People Officer, Oatly"

"Prepare to be challenged! Neil Perkin cracks the code for successfully applying an agile mindset and methods, at scale to marketing."-- "Paul Duxbury, Global Repeatable Growth Model Programme Lead, GSK Consumer Healthcare"

"Superbly researched and articulated throughout this book is full of inspiring stories and practical frameworks. Neil has written the definitive guide on how to apply agile principles at scale in marketing."-- "Iain Noakes, Head of Marketing Strategy and Planning & Effectiveness, Samsung Electronics"

"The greatest opportunity in modern marketing is the need to embrace agile methodology to fuel growth and accelerate scale. Neil Perkin has forensically written the blueprint for every marketer to follow with rigour, candour and thankfully the odd bit of humour too."-- "Richard Robinson, Managing Director, Oystercatchers"

"There is ongoing debate about whether the principles of marketing itself have changed. But what should be clear to all is that *how* marketing is executed has changed and agile is key to that. Somewhat surprisingly, though, marketers have been slow to really understand what agile means for marketing. This book should be required reading for any marketer wanting to learn how marketing needs now to operate."-- "Ashley Friedlein, CEO, Guild and Founder, Econsultancy"

"This book is packed full of amazing insights and pragmatic advice for marketers who are looking to transform the way that their team works. Essential reading."-- "Fiona Spooner, Managing Director, Consumer Revenue, Financial Times"

About the Author

Neil Perkin is the founder of Only Dead Fish, a consultancy which specializes in digital strategy, transformation and agility. Based in Sussex, UK, he has run marketing training and consulted on marketing transformation and capability with a variety of large, multi-national businesses and curates the Firestarters thought leadership events for Google UK. A regular keynote speaker, he has written for Econsultancy, Marketing Week and The Marketing Society and has been named by Sage as a 'Top 100 Global Business Influencer'. He is also the author of Agile Transformation and the co-author of Building The Agile Business Through Digital Transformation, both published by Kogan Page.