Use this checklist verbatim in your next vendor call or RFP response section. It’s fast, vendor-agnostic, and directly addresses the top practitioner complaint: AI features that sound revolutionary but deliver marginal/disappointing results.
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Agency founder details rolling out a company-wide AI mandate, the near-miss backlash and productivity dip, plus fixes needed to make “use it or else” agentic AI adoption stick.
Marketing-IT friction is structural, not interpersonal. Partnership models that realign authority and responsibility fix what alignment workshops can't.
Marketing stacks built for transactions train teams to treat customers as pipeline events. Here's how to rewire systems and metrics toward relationship-building that drives retention and expansion.
Organizations demand transformation while running at 100% capacity. Queueing theory explains why lean companies can't reinvent and what reclaiming slack looks like.
The single view of the customer is a vendor promise that collapses under real-world complexity. Purpose-built data views for specific decisions work better.
Most martech stacks deliver competitive value from just 20% of capabilities. Learn why implementation energy flows to the commodity 80% and how to close the gap.
Vendors relabel automation as agentic AI while organizations lack the operating model to use it. A two-front diagnostic for senior marketing leaders before their next investment.
