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Arlington, VA | Marketing moves at a faster pace than ever. Many teams have implemented practices utilizing Agile principles, such as Scrum, Kanban, or similar methods, to varying success. While the principles of Agile approaches offer the prioritization, collaboration, and focus on continuous improvement that can provide great results, many teams struggle with implementation of these methods.
In this fifth book in the best selling Agile Brand Guide series, the successful adoption and improvement of Agile marketing practices within an organization is explored, and both challenges and opportunities are illustrated in practical ways that marketing teams can factor in as they implement Agile Marketing in their organizations. The Agile Brand Guide to Agile Marketing Implementation by Greg Kihlström is now available in print and digital formats, and features a foreword by Anthony Coppedge, Principal Agile Digital Sales Global Transformation Lead at IBM.
The book explores common best practices, things to avoid, and other areas where marketing leaders and their teams should pay close attention as they strive to be successful in their implementation of Agile Marketing. This includes recommendations on working with other teams (whether they utilize Scrum or other Agile practices or not), as well as special considerations to be made when large-scale initiatives such as digital transformations are currently in progress. It features a foreword by Anthony Coppedge, Business Agility Lead, Digital Sales, at IBM.
Drawing on Kihlström’s experience working with top organizations, and his ongoing conversations with leaders in marketing and customer experience as part of his award-winning podcast, The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström, this guide to Agile marketing implementation provides ideas and insights that both beginning and seasoned leaders can utilize to be successful.
The Agile Brand Guide to Agile Marketing Implementation is available now in print and as an ebook from Amazon and directly from The Agile Brand website at: https://www.agilebrandguides.com
About Agile Brand Guides
The current marketing technology landscape has thousands of platforms, with a continually growing set of feature sets, functionality, and potential. It is becoming increasingly difficult to determine how to approach marketing technology growth in the best and most relevant way.
Agile Brand Guides are created to help marketers evaluate, buy, and implement critical pieces of marketing technology infrastructure most effectively, and to understand the principles and
Previous Agile Brand Guides explore Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), Customer Journey Orchestration (CJO), and the fundamentals of Agile Marketing.
About Greg Kihlström
Greg Kihlström is a best-selling author, speaker, and entrepreneur, currently an advisor and consultant to top companies on marketing technology, customer experience, and digital transformation initiatives as Principal and Chief Strategist at GK5A. He is also the host of The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström podcast. He is a two-time CEO and Co-Founder, growing both companies organically and through acquisitions, and ultimately leading both to be acquired (one in 2017, and the other in 2021). He has worked with some of the world’s top brands, including Adidas, Choice Hotels, Coca-Cola, Dell, FedEx, HP, Marriott, MTV, Starbucks, Toyota, and VMware.
He earned his MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology and is a member of the School of Marketing Faculty at the Association of National Advertisers. He currently serves on the University of Richmond’s Customer Experience Advisory Board and the Workhouse Arts Foundation Board as Chair of the Marketing Committee. Greg was the founding Chair of the American Advertising Federation’s National Innovation Committee and served on the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business Marketing Mentorship Advisory Board. Greg is Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certified, is an Agile Certified Coach (ICP-ACC), and holds a certification in Business Agility (ICP-BAF).
Greg has had multiple best–selling books, including his Agile Brand Guides series on marketing technology platforms and practices. His eleventh and most recent book, House of the Customer (2023) discusses the 1:1 personalized customer experience of the future, and how brands can organize the people, processes, and platforms that enable it. Meaningful Measurement of the Customer Experience (2022), provides guidance on how to create a customer-centric culture that prioritizes customer needs while aligning internal teams around a common goal. His award-winning podcast, The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström, launched in early 2019, discusses brand strategy, marketing, and customer experience with some of the world’s leading experts and leaders.
Greg is a contributing writer to Fast Company, Forbes, MarTech, and CMSWire, and has been featured in publications such as Advertising Age and The Washington Post. Greg has been named a 2022 Top 10 Marketing and Customer Experience Thought Leader by Thinkers 360, was named one of ICMI’s Top 25 CX Thought Leaders two years in a row, and a DC Inno 50 on Fire as a DC trendsetter in Marketing. He’s participated as a keynote speaker and panelist at industry events around the world including Internet Week New York, Internet Summit, DigiMarCon, Digital Summit, EventTech, MarTech, SMX Social Media, and VMworld. He has guest lectured at several colleges and universities including VCU Brandcenter, Georgetown University, Duke University, American University, University of Maryland, Howard University, and Virginia Tech.
