How data-driven is your marketing department?

Marketing has evolved from creative newspaper, magazine and billboard advertising, to processes that are designed to drive customer engagement and accelerate business growth. With all the data at their hands nowadays, what is necessary to become a data-driven organisation?

“Ultimately, a data-driven marketing organisation learns to use data analytics as part of all marketing campaigns; from setting-up your campaign to post-campaign review. Within a data-driven organisation, information can move freely, is consistent across all channels and decision makers at all levels use data to better serve their customers.” (source: Forbes Insight Report) 

So what does this mean and how can your organisation use data analytics to create data-driven marketing campaigns?