Highly specialized advisory firm —
Focused exclusively on helping senior marketing executives in B2B complex industries
We help senior B2B marketing executives increase the value of their marketing function. We help you make marketing a regular topic in management team meetings, gain clarity on marketing value, and establish clear performance expectations for you and your team.
We work in complex B2B industries where marketing by default has not been valued accordingly. Our clients are typically sales- or engineer-driven, with a big emphasis on traditional sales.
We know complex B2B industries —
More than a decade of experience working in the complex B2B industries.
More than 100 yearly interviews with marketing leaders and exclusive research to understand your needs and fuel our approach.
12+ proprietary frameworks for the biggest marketing challenges specifically in the complex B2B.
Investing an average of 153 hours per consultant yearly in research and development to stay on top of the game.
Some of our clients —
What we do —
Challenges we help you with
You can’t prove your value, making your budget the first to be cut.
You are stuck working in marketing instead of on marketing, consumed by ad hoc firefighting.
You are viewed as an execution arm, not a business partner.
You are guessing what leadership wants rather than driving the agenda.
You are pressured to do more with less, without the clarity to prioritize.
Our core services
Strategic Role Assessment
Get an objective baseline for your function. You’ll get a clear, actionable roadmap and a business-case-level document. It visualizes the entire journey toward greater strategic value and a more influential role.
Get started with the Complimentary Assessment >>
The Marketing Business Plan
You need one simple document that tells the story of what the marketing department is doing, why it matters, and what you are accountable for.
Start your Marketing Business Plan >>
Operational Clarity
Eliminate chaos and ad-hoc requests. You’ll gain full control over your team’s energy, ensuring resources are allocated to business outcomes instead of the loudest demands.
Start leading with clarity >>
Some of our results —
Closer to full potential by 2 new value streams — increase in added value and marketing budget by 54%
With a new vision and a redefined role for marketing, we helped a large multinational team move beyond sales support and sales-related activities. By identifying and introducing pricing power and competitive advantage as new value streams, the team was able to unlock its full potential.
38% increase in win rate for large strategic accounts and new role for marketing in big deals
We helped our global client to elevate marketing’s role in large strategic RFPs, developing a playbook and building the necessary capabilities to maximize impact in process. This led to over 15 million euros in added revenue within the first 12 months of the program, with attribution to marketing initiatives.
From 30% to 5% in ad hoc firefighting and transforming activity-based leadership to focus on accountability and performance
We helped a 35+ member marketing team shift from activity-based leadership to leading with accountability and performance. Using our Management System, we worked with the Marketing Executive to develop a business plan and management process that clarified marketing’s role and established clear performance indicators for teams and individuals. As a result, ad hoc work was reduced to less than 5% of total resources.
44% improvement in marketing’s delivered and communicated value to the business
We helped a global technology and industrial services company better identify and communicate marketing’s overall value—improving it by 44% compared to previous levels. By establishing programs for competitive advantage and building team-wide capabilities, we enabled value-driven goal-setting and systematic value communication processes at every level.
We have worked with marketing leaders and teams in over 20 countries.
More than 130 successful engagements on unlocking marketing's full potential and building world-class marketing functions.
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An average NPS of our engagements is 67.
Latest —
podcast —
Behind the scenes | One year of podcasting: the stats, the strategy, and the learnings from 15 episodes
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event —
Q1 Roundtables in Stockholm, Helsinki, and Copenhagen | "Doing more impact with the same, or even less"
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podcast —
Asbjørn Severin from Danelec | How I lead my marketing function towards commercial growth to unlock its full potential
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Delfin Vassallo from Georg Fischer | How I lead my marketing department: where planning is important, plans less so, and where B2B doesn't mean boring 2 boring
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eBook —
Executive Guide: What would a more strategic role for your marketing function look like?
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podcast —
Matti Tiitinen from Valtra | How I lead my farmer-focused marketing and sales team at Valtra
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Viktor Wallström from Saab | Why you shouldn’t make your CEO the crisis manager
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Andrea Alter from Workday | How do you empower your team to embrace challenges and learn from mistakes? Discussion with Andrea
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article —
Why is cost of inaction often a better way to prove marketing impact than ROI and 9 other insights from the Executive Roundtable Stockholm
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