#536: Incremental data-driven transformation in the enterprise with Tommi Marsans, Verizon Business
The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström®: Expert Mode Marketing Technology, AI, & CX
The Agile Brand
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🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
We are here at PegaWorld iNspire at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada we’ve been seeing some amazing things, including how AI can transform the enterprise and we’ve been hands-on at the Innovation Hub.
Digital transformation is often seen as an overwhelming challenge, and stats certainly confirm this. Understanding how to implement change gradually can be key. Returning to the show today is Tommi Marsans, Associate Director of Marketing Technology Strategy at Verizon Business, who will share insights into making big changes one step at a time within a large enterprise setting.
ABOUT TOMMI MARSANS
Tommi has over three decades of marketing technology experience, with a focus on enabling marketing through alignment of technology and strategy.
She is highly skilled in effectively collaborating across the organization to drive transformation and innovation by leveraging marketing technology to drive marketing and sales business strategies.
She is currently the lead for Pega decisioning for Verizon Business Group and has developed a dynamic customer responsive solution called Compass for customer retention and My Solutions for customer growth across digital, sales, and retail channels. She has won several awards for innovative uses of technology including Best in Class and B2B Customer Loyalty awards from The Loyalty 360 group, a SAMMY for User Experience Optimization in 2022 and 2023, and finally the PegaWorld iNspire Impact award. In addition, she has been asked to speak several times to the marketing industry on subjects as diverse as leveraging Big Data to ethical use of AI &ML.
Previously Tommi has held executive roles as a VP of Marketing at a regional marketing company and Executive Director of Marketing Operations at Sallie Mae.
She is also founder of the Force Multiplier Foundation, a charity dedicated to bringing help to those in need. Recently Tommi was selected to be a Crew Captain for the Pre-Leader Academy at Verizon to develop emerging leaders across the organization.
She is also an avid fan of Sci-Fi (Marvel and Star Wars primarily) and has a vast collection of movie memorabilia.
RESOURCES
Verizon Business website: https://www.verizon.com/business/
Pega website: https://www.pega.com
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| 0:00.0 | The Agile Brand. |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to season six of the Agile Brand, where we discuss marketing technology and customer experience trends, insights, and ideas with enterprise and technology platform leaders. |
| 0:18.0 | We focus on the people, processes, data, and platforms that make brands successful, scalable, customer-focused and |
| 0:25.0 | sustainable. This is what makes an agile brand. I'm your host, Greg Kielstrom, |
| 0:29.5 | advising Fortune 1000 brands on Martek, marketing operations, and CX, best-selling author and speaker. |
| 0:36.2 | The Agile Brand Podcast is brought to you by Tech Systems, an industry leader in full-stack technology |
| 0:41.4 | services, talent services, and real world application. |
| 0:45.0 | For more information go to teek systems.com. |
| 0:49.0 | Before we get started, I wanted to let you know that my latest book, |
| 0:52.8 | Priority is Action, Seven Principles for Better Strategies, Decisions, |
| 0:56.4 | and Outcomes is now available. |
| 0:58.4 | In it, I give ideas and insights for leaders and teams that need to make meaningful |
| 1:02.1 | progress on their priorities. |
| 1:04.0 | After all, our priorities are what we do, not what we say we'd like to do. |
| 1:08.0 | You can find priorities action on Amazon or learn more on my website, Greg Kilstrom.com. Now let's get on to the show. |
| 1:17.5 | We are here at Pego World Inspire at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and we've been seeing |
| 1:22.1 | some amazing things, seeing some amazing things |
| 1:23.1 | hearing some amazing things including how AI can transform the enterprise and |
| 1:28.2 | I know I've gotten the chance to be hands-on at the Innovation Hub as well |
| 1:32.3 | so we'll talk about a few things related to that too. |
| 1:36.2 | Digital transformation is often seen as an overwhelming challenge and stats certainly confirm |
| 1:41.0 | not only this but also that starting a transformation |
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