IMD Business School

Marketing Strategy in the Digital Age

IMD Business School

Digital Transformation & AI

About Programme

In a world of increased digitization, artificial intelligence (AI), and rapidly evolving consumer behavior, few business functions have been as profoundly disrupted as marketing. Beyond tactical adjustments, what are the broader strategic implications of this disruption? How do you seize the opportunities arising from digital technologies to redefine your strategy and change the competitive game?

IMD’s Marketing Strategy in the Digital Age program invites you to view marketing strategy and value creation through the lens of digital. You will explore several pathways to redefine the value you bring to customers by transforming products, markets, and the overall customer experience (CX). You will reflect on how customer centricity applies to your own context, and learn how to gain customer insights, develop a content strategy, and engage with your target audience. You will discover how to hypersegment, hypertarget, and apply AI to personalize and optimize key marketing activities.

At the end of the program, you will be equipped with the insights and skills to generate a robust marketing strategy that enables you to leapfrog competitors and redefine customer value.

You can take this program as a stand-alone course or as part of the IMD Executive Certificate in AI and Digital Business Excellence or the IMD Online Executive Certificate .

Redefine customer value

Explore diverse pathways to rethink customer value by using digital to build products and partnerships, reshape the CX, and transform market access.

Comprehend customer centricity

Grasp the fundamentals of customer centricity in the context of digital and AI.

Gain insights, drive engagement, and apply AI

Become familiar with outside-in and inside-out marketing activities to gain customer insights, and build strong customer connections. Examine best practices of AI in marketing.

Craft your digital marketing strategy

Develop a strategic marketing plan tailored to your business, leveraging cutting-edge tools and techniques to stay ahead in today’s competitive landscape.

Programme Content

Unit 1: Marketing transformation through digital
Learn how digital and AI are transforming marketing.
Comprehend a framework mapping five pathways to create value for customers in novel ways.
Unit 2: Reshaping customer journeys
Deep dive into the key elements of customer experience (CX).
Discover how digital has transformed the customer journey.
Map your customers’ journey to identify gaps and drop-off points.
Apply the seven design principles and associated tools to create a new journey with memorable moments across it.
Unit 3: Building digital products and partnerships
Learn the components of customer value and how firms combine them in different ways.
Examine how to use digital to transform customer value through products and partnerships.
Recognize how digital can create value by adding intelligence to products.
Explore two ways to integrate products from multiple ecosystem partners.
Comprehend the challenges behind product and service integrations.
Unit 4: Transforming market access
Create a competitive advantage by using digital to reach niche segments and build ecosystems.
Identify market segments that you could reach and serve better.
Familiarize yourself with the critical success factors for building communities and platforms.
Evaluate the challenges behind targeting niche segments and creating ecosystems and find out how to avoid pitfalls.
Unit 5: Customer centricity and customer insights
Grasp the fundamentals of customer centricity in the context of digital and AI.
Learn about the methods of generating unique insights on customer needs through data.
Apply the seven channels for generating customer insights to your context.
Unit 6: New approaches to segmentation
Understand the five steps of the segmentation process.
Apply two segmentation methods to your customer base.
Understand how data and analytics are changing traditional segmentation to hyper segmentation and hyper targeting.
Identify areas where the application of AI and analytics can transform your segmentation.
Unit 7: Big data and AI in marketing
Understand how big data is impacting marketing and how it is used.
Identify optimal metrics for assessing marketing ROI.
Differentiate between data-based and intuition-based decision making.
Explore AI, its application in marketing, as well as its capabilities and limitations.
Examine best practices of AI in marketing.
Unit 8: Content marketing and customer advocacy
Learn about the strategic role of content marketing and different types of content you can use along the customer journey.
Explore how the use of customer advocacy can enhance brand awareness and help to overcome barriers to adoption.
Apply a practical five-step model for engaging communities and disseminating messages.
Design a content strategy.

Programme Benefits

Designed for impact and delivered for you, IMD’s online programs help you achieve your aspirations wherever you are in your career or the world. Here’s what makes the IMD online program experience exceptional.

Access to thought leadership

Tap into the expertise of IMD’s faculty – globally recognized experts in their fields – wherever you are.

Personalized coaching

Benefit from one-on-one support from an experienced executive coach who helps you apply new insights to your own context.

Global peer interaction

Collaborate with participants from around the world through group and pair work that challenges your thinking and broadens your perspective.

Flexible format

Engage in a structured yet flexible learning experience that enables you to progress at your own pace and complete weekly assignments around your busy schedule.

Applied learning for real impact

Apply what you learn right away through practical assignments designed to make a direct impact on your work.

Testimonials

"The Marketing Strategy in the Digital Age program delivered practical, up-to-date insights that I could immediately apply in my work. The content was clear, engaging, and highly relevant. I’ve gained a stronger strategic perspective and greater confidence in navigating digital marketing challenges."

Wolfgang Knorr

Co-CEO, Festool/TTS Tooltechnic Systems, Germany

"Marketing Strategy in the Digital Age puts"

Oscar Quesada

Marketing Performance Director – Reynolds America BAT, United States

"in your hands thought-provoking content and"

Olena Vlasiuk

Marketing & Sales Consultant, Switzerland

"plenty of business insights on how B2B and B2C"

Patric Pop

Creative Brand Strategist, Freelance, Switzerland

"enterprises are either disrupting, or transforming,"

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"their industries through digital, enabling new"

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"ways of value creation for customers."

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"Marketing Strategy in the Digital Age is full of insights that globally change your strategic vision and help you to build an effective marketing strategy that will succeed even in the face of fierce competition. The professional feedback throughout the learning experience is also very helpful. I unequivocally recommend this program!"

Anonymous

"Adding the Marketing Strategy in the Digital Age program to my 15 years of practical experience in digital marketing allowed me seeing the bigger picture for any brand wishing to tackle digital disruption. I enjoyed the high-profile case studies, rich exchanges with knowledgeable staff, and excellent teamwork. I recommend the course."

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