Marketing Automation’s Bleeding Edge Model

C4ISR Origins

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This is the second in a series of excerpts from Allinio’s white paper Net-Centric Marketing & Information Superiority.

2. C4ISR – A Military Concept

C4ISR stands for “Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance” and derives from earlier acronyms describing components of this concept.  More than just another military acronym, C4ISR is the strategic and tactical leveraging of technology to create speed, accuracy, and efficiency in the battlefield, especially in the context of joint operations between the various armed services, and U.S. allies.

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A Military Perspective of Marketing Automation

Network Centric Warfare

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The Marketing Consigliere knows many great B2B professionals in the Marketing Automation space.  Many of them are great evangelists spreading the word of the promise of the growing number of tools out there that help firms drive revenue by aligning Sales and Marketing.  However, he feels that there has not been a sufficient model that sets the stage for the transformation necessary to take advantage of all of these revolutionary tools.

Therefore, he has laboriously come up with a white paper that attempts to explain this through an analogy with a proven application of the model- that of the warrior, who seeks to dominate his enemy.  This white paper is also an experiment – The Marketing Consigliere seeks feedback from other Marketers on this paper and will incorporate the input that helps make it better – instead of calling this “crowdsourcing,” he prefers to call this pro-sourcing.

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