CMO Council and Accenture Report Reveals State of CMO-CIO Alignment

In fact, very few marketing and IT executives surveyed for the report believe their companies are prepared to exploit the new digital channels, despite their shared conviction that technology now underpins and shapes the entire customer experience. Specifically, just 4 percent of more than 300 marketing executives and 7 percent of the more than 300 IT executives who participated in the study said their companies are very prepared to exploit digital marketing channels. Additionally, only 8 percent of marketers and 6 percent of IT executives said they believe their data and analytics are completely integrated. And nearly than one-third of marketers and IT executives alike (29 percent and 27 percent, respectively) said they are either having difficulty integrating critical analytics capabilities or believe they are not integrated at all.