When embarking on a DAM initiative, make sure you know your DAM customer! Meaning, be clear about the specific target audience that will use your DAM, and focus your DAM development on meeting their specific needs. Geoffrey Moore’s classic Crossing the Chasm shows how it’s done.
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DAM Perspectives (Part 4): Building the Foundation
When building your DAM Foundation, it’s not a bad idea to remind ourselves of the old saying that the battle is won or lost before it’s ever fought. This statement is often true – which raises the stakes in getting the foundational pieces of your DAM just right.
DAM Perspectives (Part 5): Building the Solution
Building your DAM Solution is incredibly hard work. It’s about solving problems, not going around them. What that really means is we should strive to build a DAM that’s supremely helpful to end users. To achieve that, four key dimensions will come into play.
DAM Perspectives (Part 6): Building Conformity
Building DAM Conformity is about ensuring your DAM’s success for the long-term. This certainly means governance – but a kinder and gentler version that can facilitate and help to maintain, along with Automation, a DAM that’s supremely helpful for end-users.
A Success Story: World-Class Outreach in the Public Interest & Advocacy Industry
Among membership-based public interest organizations, but few are as large, vital, and prolifically active as this client, which provides services ranging across healthcare, insurance, educational, employment and retirement benefits – all closely regulated environments. EMMsphere helps their marketing team stay tight, right, with a clear line of sight.
A Success Story: Consistency, Control and Adoption of MLR Processes in the Life Sciences Industry
The Medical Legal and Regulatory (MLR) process is one of the most critically important and technically challenging processes in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries. It’s central to all marketing production initiatives. For this particular client, EMMsphere ensured MLR efficiency and stability – and equally important, adoption.
A Success Story: Embracing Marketing Production Automation in the Investment Management Industry
Some organizations deal in large volumes, and some deal in gargantuan volumes. In the investment management industry, few deal in larger volumes than this client, with over $1.5 trillion under management worldwide, in a highly regulated environment. EMMsphere helped this client achieve speed, compliance – and adoption.
Better DAM Maturity Modeling: An Outcome-Driven Approach
The fundamental issue with maturity models in general, and the well-known “DAM Maturity Model” in particular, is this: they are diagnostic tools focused on measuring levels of proficiency, not prescriptive tools focused on achieving specific outcomes. So where can you find a prescriptive model? Good news: right here!
What Does It Mean to be Enterprise-Class?
Enterprise-class means high-performance and large-scale. But does any of that matter if users don’t embrace the solution? Somehow in all the technology we forget the obvious: it’s about adoption. And adoption is about getting users to demand the solution, because they believe they’re better off with it than without it.