Integrated agile marketing drives success

IMGROUP now part of Hitachi Vantara, was a multiple award-winning data insight and information management consultancy that helped clients improve business performance, achieve competitive advantage and reduce cost through the effective use of data.

The IMGROUP leadership was looking for a marketing partner that could help reinvigorate their marketing programmes, inject new ways of working and help them to take ownership of early stage pipeline. Bright was chosen to work with them to create an agile approach to campaigning using thought leadership to drive engagement and establishing KPI that aligned to the company’s business objectives.

Injecting agile ways of working

Bright conducted a marketing diagnostic that identified key areas for improvement across people and culture, ways of working and martech. The marketing leadership and Bright then restructured the in-house team to ensure it was results-focused and better integrated with the sales team.

Bright worked with the in-house team to create and execute an agile marketing approach and plan focused on lead generation and brand communications. Built on strong content and integrated across all channels including events, PR, UX, digital and social media marketing.

Agile marketing transformation

Bright brought a mix of strategic thinking with a pragmatic, results-based, agile approach. The team delivered both critical short-term benefits and the longer-term strategic approach needed to build a successful programme that met the needs of the business, the results included:

• 800% increase in qualified leads
• High quality content used across multiple channels
• Brand building resulting in acquisition by Hitachi
• Greater alignment between sales and marketing
• Transformed the marketing function and injected agile ways of working
• Improved internal perception of the in-house marketing team