Thursday, February 22, 2007

Every company is a media company

With digital technology, every company today is a media company… So why are the Chief Communications Officer and the Chief Marketing Officer still two separate roles?

1 comment:

jaime said...

Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I think that each role has a very different function. Using my company as an example, we have a CCO who covers overall brand decisions - PR, advertising, brand positioning and corporate communications. Within the financial services industry, this is a critical role - especially due to all of the regulation that government boards are passing and speculation in client's minds due to recent bad press. However, we also have a CMO - his role is to understand and position individual products within an overall architecture that advisors can select to sue or not. I think together, they are incredibly powerful, separate or one in and of itself, they are nothing.