Expert Advice for Marketing Leaders on MarTech, AI, & CX
Insights, ideas, and best practices for marketers that utilize Agile Marketing.
Customers might browse a website, read support articles, ask a chatbot or contact a service team directly. Sometimes they’d watch YouTube videos, check Reddit threads, ask in Facebook groups. Across those channels, the organisation still largely understood and could interject into how its products, services and policies were explained.
The relevant question isn’t if AI will fundamentally change our function, but how we, as leaders, will architect that change within our organizations. The most forward-thinking are looking past the simple automation of tasks and toward the augmentation of talent, judgment, and creativity.
While consumers demand authenticity and emotion in 2026, the engine room of the enterprise is undergoing a ruthless architectural overhaul. The old Silicon Valley mandate to “move fast and break things” is being replaced by an urgent need for disciplined integration, modular infrastructure, and the complete demolition of operational silos.
For CMOs and other marketing leaders, the promise of a single source of truth has always felt just over the horizon. Yet, with each passing year, that horizon seems to be receding into the distance like a mirage. The challenge is no longer a lack of data; it’s a deluge.
This article was written by Greg Kihlström for Forbes Agency Council. Building agility into your team’s approaches can help your organization adapt to fast-changing conditions from within or even external ones. A key part of this that has benefited many of my consulting clients over the years is prioritizing a continuous improvement culture.
In the era of AI-driven transformation, every company wants to be agile. But few manage to embed agility so deeply into their operating model that it becomes second nature. Reka, an AI startup developing leading-edge multimodal generative models, has made that a foundational part of how they operate—and they’ve done it with a lean, remote team of just 50 people.
If you think Agile is just about story points and sprint velocity, Gabrielle Wieczorek wants you to think again. With more than 14 years of experience guiding teams through technical change, Gabrielle blends data science with agile coaching to challenge a common misconception: that Agile is all intuition, and dashboards are distractions.
This article was written for CMSWire by Greg Kihlström. With competitive
pressures mounting and customer expectations continually rising,
organizations are under constant pressure to provide personalized and seamless experiences to their customers across various touchpoints.
Today’s guest believes data may be the most underused lever for agility in large organizations. Gabrielle Wieczorek is a Scrum Master and Certified Agile Coach and a speaker at the upcoming Online Scrum Masters Summit, where she brings over 14 years of experience blending agile frameworks with data science, analytics, and stakeholder trust-building.
When most people hear the word “agility,” they think of Scrum boards, KPIs, or digital transformation. Mark DeCarlo thinks of something else entirely: comedy. More specifically, improvisational comedy—the art of thriving in chaos, saying “yes, and” instead of “no, but,” and listening deeply so the scene doesn’t fall apart. In DeCarlo’s world, agility isn’t a methodology—it’s a mindset.
