Welcome Sara Shipton Innovation & Development CIMA Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together About Me • Production/Distribution of Beer (Allied Breweries plc) • Operational audit (Scottish & Newcastle plc) • Breakdowns/Recoveries (RAC) • Leisure – Hotels/Leisure group – FC for SME • Pub Retailing (Allied Domecq) • Pub Wholesaling/Leased Model (Punch Taverns) • Consultancy Business – incl Freelance work for CIMA Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Agenda • Why now? • Case for change – the relationship between finance and marketing - measuring marketing’s return - marketing’s influence in business • The Infinity Model • Checklist – Good practice guidelines, we know what we have to do? • Checklist – Key Players, we know who should what, and they know how? • Checklist – Conditions for success • Steps to implementation • Summary and close Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Why important now? Economic Downturn Value of Marketing to the Bottom Line Ideas Marketer Numbers Management Accountant “Marketing looks like the easiest and most logical [budget] to cut because companies don’t know how to measure its productivity.” Sharan Jagpal, Professor of Marketing Rutgers Business School, New Jersey Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Return On Ideas – Case for change “Half the money I spend on marketing is wasted The trouble is I don’t know which half” Lord Leverhulme, founder Lever Bros, first president CIMA, former President of CIM “ There is growing pressure from shareholders to make marketing more accountable Investors are becoming more active in analysing and questioning marketing expenditures.” Sir Dominic Cadbury Chairman Cadbury-Schweppes , May 2000 “Many traditional marketing models employed by CMOs today are being severely challenged and they foresee the day when these rules of thumb will no longer work A more rigorous and pragmatic approach – treating marketing expenditures as investments – is warranted The pressure, therefore, to demonstrate tangible ROI on your marketing and branding strategies, has never been more intense.” Stuart Green, Managing Director, Interbrand Singapore Malaysian Marketing and Strategy Forum, Kuala Lumpur 2006 Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together The Evolving Management Accountant “ the historical development of “The common stereotype of the accountant –portrayed as male, introverted, cautious, methodical, systematic, antisocial and above all boring “ (Bougen, 1994; Cory 1992) accounting - viewed primarily as a technical and instrumental activity carried out by a functionary whose role was to control and thereby, indirectly to oppress” Fisher and Murphy (1995) “The role of the ‘beancounter’ is being replaced by the demands for accountants to add value in terms of competency in financial analysis and strategic decision-making skills Numbers (Parker, 2000) “Balancing the tyranny of Accountants” “ Financial Management has failed to bridge the marketing-finance interface ” (Doyle , Value Based Marketing, 2000) Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together The Management Accountant – of the Marketer “Finance thinks marketers spend like drunken sailors.” “ Finance asks for ROI; marketers give them “brand value” and “unaided awareness”” “Marketing’s spend forecasts are never right” Pat Murray, Marketing Management Analytics “Management accountants were naturally cautious and untrusting of predictions from marketing; citing marketing’s tendency to adopt implausible assumptions and ignore evidence in order to support favoured ideas” Return on Ideas, Robert Shaw “ many marketing professionals lack the financial know-how to read and understand balance sheets and P&L statements, and so struggle to understand how their work affects the company’s financial performance.” Herbert Ortner, CMO and interim CFO, Palfinger, an Austrian crane manufacturer Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Finance v Marketing “Whilst both marketing and financial professionals believe marketing is delivering ROI, they can’t show it Without being able to demonstrate it, it’s an uphill struggle to argue the case for increasing the marketing budget – and perhaps help to fund more measurement.” Peter Romaine, Director and General Manager, Xerox Global Services, Xerox UK Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together When the Management Accountant met theTheMarketer Management Accountant Comfort Zone Cautious and methodical Loves History, and the past Relishes indisputable solid fact Happy to provide the post completion critique Like the safe position of told you so, rather than risky business of forecasting The Marketers Virtual Reality Full of ideas Impulsive and un-disciplined Excited by the future and the unknown Un-willing to recognise risk and potential of failure Rather not measure if it might not look good… Like to be in a position to be selective about what results to present Reluctant to be set targets, preferring the ‘freedom’ to find out along the way Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Marketing’s Lost Influence – Doyle’s Paradox* • Marketing is important for reasons - Companies need to understand and adapt to rapidly changing markets - It is marketing rather than production skills which have long proven the key to competitive advantage - Marketing performance is the root source of shareholder value However… • Study** found, just 12 of chief execs in top 100 companies had experience in a marketing role • Only 57% of larger companies have marketing represented on the board • Whilst all boards will discuss profit, only a third consider customer attitudes and brands as part of the agenda Why? Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together ** Source Stephen Callender 1999 * Source Doyle P (2000) Value-Based Marketing, John Wiley & Sons Ltd Checklist One: Good Practice Guidelines DEMONSTRATION • Do we insist on post-implementation reviews of every marketing prediction? • Are we using good practice analysis methods to link marketing activity to customer activity? • Do we have financial models linking customer activity to sales and profit figures? • Do we investigate cost-efficiency and drive down waste, scrap and re-work? Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Good Practice Guidelines - Imagining Value  Creation of New Ideas, requires a certain obsession !  Can be a lonely ‘exposed’ place,  But – can create opportunity for building team spirit  Imagination is used at three levels: Strategic Portfolio Value Proposition Marketing Mix Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Good Practice Guidelines - Imagining Value - Strategic Portfolio     Classify and categorise marketing ideas Invest cash where it will generate maximum cash inflow Do not allocate budget based on current level of sales Assess ideas using cost-benefit predictions and apply consistent risk-reward criteria Case Study: IBM CEO, Lou Gerstner in the 90s repositioned the business alongside being provider of hardware and software, as a group of service businesses Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Good Practice Guidelines - Imagining Value - Value Propositions  Use market research  Address both negative comments, and, exploit positive ones imaginatively  Keep appeal by stream of additional practical ideas  Monitor from emergence through prediction and post-launch  Use predictive tests and demonstrate post launch sustainable value  Implement a shared plan and schedule activities Case Study: Heinz – 2003 invested in a massive research programme into customer attitudes, discovering their dissatisfaction with the plastic bottle The Top-Down Bottle was born Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Good Practice Guidelines - Imagining Value - Marketing Mix       Review evidence of mix effectiveness Rethink, based on reviews Switch budgets on a rolling monthly basis where appropriate Base future marketing activities on ideas translated from the mix Monitor mix ideas from emergence through prediction and post-launch Subject ideas to predictive tests before launch, and demonstrate value add, after launch  Guard against proliferation of un-scrutinised ideas  Plan and schedule mix activities Innocent Drinks used many innovative mix ideas, including eye catching promotions; woolly hats for Innocent bottles, distribution of excess stock to the homeless, a health tips book, Fruitstock festivals, free events for retail staff From 2002 to 2007 turnover grew from £6.5m to £100m Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Good Practice Guidelines - Predicting Value  Analogies, substitutes and scenarios  Customer Insight and foresight  Tests and experiments  Extrapolations from the past Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Good Practice Guidelines - Demonstrating Value  It is important to pre-plan how you are going to demonstrate the effect of every new marketing idea when put into action  Look for a chain of evidence that links marketing activity and expenditure to its financial benefits Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together The Key Players – Checklist Two “ Increasingly information-age Companies are shifting from vertical hierarchies to horizontal cross-functional teams……responsible for key processes that add value for customer NOT for functional inputs.” Peter Doyle: Value Based Marketing Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Conditions for Success Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Conditions for Success: points to consider – Checklist three Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Steps to implementation Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Steps to implementation – in practice • ONE DAY • Workshop • ONE WEEK • Detailed review • ONE MONTH • Data collection • Model development • Tool implementation Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Summary of key points • Finance and marketing have a disjointed relationship • Finance focuses too much on budget and not enough on performance, whereas marketing concentrates of brand awareness/image but not on sales or profit • The best organisations strike a balance between financial rigour and marketing imagination • Progress can be made by holding marketing/finance workshops and ensuring both sides ask the right questions “Engaging with the CEO, Finance and IT departments understanding the CFO’s expectations from marketers…meeting and exceeding CEO’s marketing objectives… boosts competitive advantage in the market.” Ramesh Natarajan, Deputy Country Manager, DHL Express, Malaysia, CMO Conference KL 2006 Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together 10 benefits to your organisation • Making the marketing budget work harder • Holding agencies rigorously to account for results • Eliminating production wastage and its causes • Making marketing assets and collateral (images, video, text) work harder • Maintaining media effectiveness while reducing costs • Getting agencies to a better job in less time • Avoiding surprises in budget commitments • Wasting less time on budgetary bureaucracy • Faster marketing approvals with fewer errors • Forecasting more accurately Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together Return on Ideas Questions? “The quest to create more money from marketing is a team effort.” Professor Robert Shaw Finance and Marketing working better together www.cimaglobal.com/ideas Return on ideas : Better results from finance and marketing working together