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Creative People Aren’t Wicked Problems To Solve

Creative People Aren’t Wicked Problems To Solve

Human creativity isn’t a “problem” that generative AI can solve. The best it can offer is sophisticated mediocrity. Yet hyperbolic statements from gen AI companies may convince your organization’s leadership otherwise. Don’t fall for it.
How To Unite Divergent Roles and Teams and Scale Your Content Operations

How To Unite Roles and Teams and Scale Your Content Operations

Your team is growing and content lives in multiple areas of the company. You see cracks appear in the processes. Balls get dropped. What’s a marketer to do? Use this advice to get ahold of your content operations and scale successfully.
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Maximize Content Efficiency With These 7 Agile Practices

Do your content and marketing teams feel overwhelmed? Do you think they’re inefficient? Explore these seven Agile practices to streamline workflows, boost efficiency, and still create high-quality content that engages your audience.
Why Your Content Won't Surprise or Delight Unless You Expect More (From People and AI)

Why Your Content Won’t Surprise or Delight Unless You Expect More (From People and AI)

Why do we call it generative AI when it doesn’t generate anything new? Renaming the much-discussed tech is just one of the ways Robert Rose suggests aligning expectations with reality. The other? Challenging people to aim for higher-quality ideas and deliverables.
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Does AI Do ‘More’ Or ‘Less’ in Your Content Strategy?

Being asked to use AI to “do more with less” isn’t as easy as it sounds. It all rests on whether you emphasize “more” or “less.” Learn what that means for incorporating AI in your marketing strategy.
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Marketing’s Musical Chairs: Why So Many Reorgs (and What It Means for You) 

Almost half of companies restructured their marketing teams in the past year, according to Marketing Week. About four in 10 restructured the year before that. Why? And how can you thrive despite it? 
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How To Help Your Internal Teams Fall in Love (or in Line) With Innovative Ideas

You need new energy and more creative approaches. You need the team to get out of its content and marketing rut. But if the org chart doesn’t change, you’ll just keep shipping the same old content.
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The CMO Disappearance Doesn’t Mean What Everybody Thinks It Does

Big brands ax the CMO role. LinkedIn talks about fast-growing jobs. Are they just wrapping the same old jobs in fancier, buzzword-heavy titles? Learn what it all means for marketing and what you should do to grow in the profession.
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Owned Media Demands This New Content Role for Long-Term Success

To grow a flourishing content garden of owned media properties, your company needs a person or team up to the task. And that’s an editorial product manager.
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Build This New Framework for Agile Content Ops in Talent-Starved Times

Budget pressures, unaligned teams, and a stew of content, tech, data, and AI integration challenges have marketers looking for help. Consider a talent cloud approach, which uses external assistance to build internal skills.
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For Better Content Leadership, Don’t Blame – Try Cultivating Instead

Don’t sabotage your year by blaming yourself or your team for something that isn’t working well or punishing everybody with an “improvement” plan. Instead, take this less-traveled path to success.
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7 Core Roles of a Content Marketing Team

How many of these seven content-related roles live in your marketing organization? They can be the differentiators for your overall marketing strategy.