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Marketing Metrics and Dashboards, 2.0": Chicago 

The Gleacher Center- 450 N Cityfront Plaza Drive 
Chicago , IL  60611 
10/23/2008 8:00 AM  - 10/24/2008 4:00 PM 

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This workshop provides mid- to senior-level marketers the knowledge to build marketing dashboards that better support marketing investment decisions and results tracking. The format combines educational presentations, case studies and participant collaboration to provide actionable learning.

Do you already have a marketing dashboard or are you considering building one?

By now, most mid- to large-sized marketing organizations have either developed some sort of marketing dashboard or are on their way to doing so. Yet few have succeeded in engaging key users or generating the comprehensive insights they’d hoped to. Why? Is it the wrong metrics? Insufficient insight? Design flaws?

Or organizational adoption issues?

Led by Senior Partners from MarketingNPV, the leading implementer of marketing dashboards and analytics, this intensive two-day seminar will dive into the how to develop a best of breed marketing dashboard to measure and enhance marketing ROI. We’ll examine how to successfully combine and evolve metrics, processes, analytics, and tools to ensure continued dashboard success over the long-term.  We will help you avoid common traps and flaws to make sure that your dashboard continues to meet the evolving needs of the Marketing organization. 

Whether you’ve already got a dashboard you’d like to fix, or are just looking to avoid the mistakes most first-timers make, you’ll find lots of superb content in this highly interactive workshop.

Learning Objectives

  • Aligning the scope of your marketing dashboard with the organization’s knowledge needs.
  • Identifying the right metrics to include on your dashboard to identify opportunities and threats and forecast performance.
  • Integrating analytics and dashboard metrics.
  • Overcoming gaps in data or missing information.
  • Developing robust processes to support marketing resource allocation and performance management.
  • Selecting the right deployment technology to create an engaging interface and easy-to-maintain operation.
  • Designing the user experience for simplicity and richness of learning.
  • Developing a marketing measurement plan to ensure that the dashboard evolves to meet the ever-changing needs of the marketing organization.

Who Should Attend

  • Senior marketers at mid- to large-sized companies with responsibilities for designing and building dashboards or executing against specific marketing metrics.
  • B2C or B2B marketing executives who need a comprehensive framework for measuring marketing performance.

About the Instructors

Marketing Metrics and Dashboards, 2.0 will be led by managing partner PAT LAPOINTE and other senior management from MarketingNPV. With experience specializing in building marketing dashboards, marketing ROI and analytical frameworks, and brand scorecards, MarketingNPV helps companies to determine the financial return from marketing investments. Their work has been published and recognized by most major leading business and marketing industry publications, and appears quarterly in MarketingNPV Journal. Now in their 3rd year as instructors of this highly successful workshop topic, the team has trained over 1000 marketers on establishing better links between marketing investments and financial value creation

“The greatest single benefit of this workshop was that I walked away with a dashboard I can immediately put to use. I have a plan that will take me and my company well into the future.”

    Day 1
    • 8:30                 Continental Breakfast
    • 9:00                 Introductions
    • 9:30                 What is a Marketing Dashboard?  Why Now?
    • 10:30               Break
    • 10:45               Marketing Alignment and Measurement
    • 12:00               Lunch
    • 1:00                 Metrics: What and How to Measure
    • 3:00                 Break             
    • 3:30                 Dashboard Navigation & Metric Exercise
    • 4:30                 Q&A and Wrap up Day 1

    Day 2

    • 8:00                 Continental Breakfast
    • 8:30                 Exercise Review
    • 9:30                 Analytics –Data, Knowledge Gaps, and Models
    • 10:30               Break
    • 10:45               Models Continued and Insight Roadmap Development
    • 12:00               Lunch
    • 1:00                Organizational Adoption & Implementation
    • 3:00                 Break
    • 3:15                 Building the Plan
    • 4:00                 Review and Wrap up
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Gleacher Center
450 N Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312.464.8787
Fax: 312.464.8683
www.gleachercenter.com

The Gleacher Center is conveniently located in the heart of Chicago’s business community just blocks away from the Loop and steps away from Magnificent Mile shopping, restaurants and hotels.  It is easily accessible from public transportation and adjacent parking lots.

Hotel Information

Hotels within One Mile of the Gleacher Center

 

Hotel

Phone

Address

Courtyard by Marriott

312-660-2401

165 E. Ontario St.

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Embassy Suites Hotel

312-423-6312

511 N. Columbus Drive

Fairmont Hotel

312-565-6674

200 N. Columbus Drive

 

Four Seasons

312-649-2314

120 E. Delaware Place

 

Hilton Garden Inn

312-527-2656

10 East Grand Avenue

 

Holiday Inn Chicago City Center

312-787-6100

300 E. Ohio

 

Hilton Suites Chicago/Magnificent Mile

312-664-1100

198 E. Delaware Place

Homewood Suites by Hilton

312-644-2222

40 E. Grand Ave.

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Hotel Inter-Continental

312.944.4100

505 N. Michigan Ave.

Hotel Monaco Chicago

312-960-8500

225 N. Wabash

House of Blues Hotel

312-245-0333

333 N. Dearborn

Hyatt Regency Chicago

312-616-6953

151 E. Wacker Drive

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Le Meridien Chicago

312-327-0644

520 N. Michigan Ave.

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Marriott Downtown Chicago

312-836-0100

540 N. Michigan Ave.

Omni Chicago Hotel

312-944-6664

676 N. Michigan Ave.

 

The Peninsula Chicago

312-573-6604

108 East Superior Street

 

The Ritz Carlton Hotel

312-266-1000

160 E. Pearson

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Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers

312-464-1000

301 E. North Water Street

Swissotel

312-565-0565

323 E. Wacker Drive

 

W  Hotel

312-943-9200

644 N. Lake Shore Drive

Westin River North

312-744-1900

320 N. Dearborn Street

Wyndham Chicago

312-274-4429

633 N. St. Clair Street

•• walking distance to the Gleacher Center: 1-2 blocks
•   walking distance to the Gleacher Center: 2-5 blocks

Airport Directions

O’Hare International Airport

Midway Airport                      

Taxi:  Allow 1½ to 2 hours

          Approximately $35-50

Taxi:  Allow 45min to 1½ hours

          Approximately $25-40

Subway:  $1.75  Allow approximately 45 minutes to an hour

  • Airport signs will direct you to “Trains to City”
  • Depart at State and Lake stop
  • Take cab to our address (approximately $7)

Subway:  $1.75 Allow approximately 45 minutes to an hour

  • Airport signs will direct you to “Trains to City”
  • Depart at State and Lake stop
  • Take cab to our address (approximately $7)

Rental Car Information:
For your convenience, the American Marketing Association has made arrangements with Avis for your car rental needs.  Special rates have been negotiated for you.  Please contact 800/331-1600 to reserve a car. In addition, please be sure to use the AVIS Worldwide Discount Number:  D098599.

Driving Directions

Directions From:

To Parking Lots Near The Gleacher Center

To Drop Off or Pick Up Passengers In Circular Drive:

From Lake Shore Drive:

  1. Exit Grand Avenue and follow west (away from lake) to St. Clair
  2. Turn left on St. Clair and go one block to Illinois (St. Clair jogs at this point)
  3. Turn left on Illinois
  4. For parking either:
    Cross St. Clair, where it picks up again, to first lot on right (Self Park—pick up a discounted parking coupon from Gleacher main security desk) Turn right, where St. Clair picks up again.  St. Clair then leads into North Water Street.  Other lots are straight ahead, and to the left and right.
  1. Exit Grand Avenue and follow west (away from lake) to Columbus Drive/Fairbanks Court
  2. Turn left on Columbus/Fairbanks and go to second light, North Water Street
  3. Turn right on North Water Street and Gleacher Center is straight ahead

From 90-Kennedy/
94-Edens:

  1. Exit Ohio (1-way) and follow east to St. Clair (1 block east of Michigan Avenue)
  2. Turn right on St. Clair and go two blocks to Illinois (St. Clair jogs atthis point)
  3. Turn left on Illinois and immediately get into right lane
  4. For parking either:
  5. Cross St. Clair, where it picks up again, to first lot on right (Self Park—pick up a discounted parking coupon from Gleacher main security desk, $15 or $10) Turn right where St. Clair picks up again. St. Clair then leads into North Water Street. Other lots are straight ahead, and to the left and right.
  1. Exit Ohio (1-way) and follow east to Columbus Drive/Fairbanks Court  (several blocks east of Michigan Avenue)
  2. Turn right on Columbus Drive/ Fairbanks Court and go to second light, North Water Street.
  3. Turn right on North Water Street and Gleacher Center is straight ahead

From 290- Eisenhower:

Take 90/94 exit north/west and follow directions noted above from I90/94

Take 90/94 exit north/west and follow directions noted above from I90/94

 

Public Transportation Directions

From El (subway):

Red Line (Howard/Dan Ryan):

  1. Depart at Grand Avenue stop. 
  2. Walk east to Michigan Avenue (walk up stairs at the Nordstrom’s building to access main upper Michigan),
  3. Turn right to head southbound
  4. Cross to east side of Michigan
  5. Turnleft to walk through plaza just after the Chicago Tribune Tower (we’re the only 6-story building in that plaza)

From Buses:

Buses running along Michigan Avenue:
2, 3, 10, 145, 146, 147, 151 (from Union station), and 157 (from Ogilvie station)

  1. Depart on north side of Chicago River in front of either the Equitable Building and Chicago Tribune Tower or Wrigley Building (depending on which direction you’re traveling)
  2. Gleacher Center is in the same plaza as the Equitable Building and Tribune Tower(we’re the only 6-story building in that plaza)

Commuter Trains:

Union Station:  Take the 151 bus and follow directions above

Ogilvie Station:  Take 157 bus and follow directions above

LaSalle Station:  Walk to bus station on corner of Well and Congress to  catch #147 bus and follow directions above

IC Randolph Station:  Walk west 1 block to Michigan Avenue, turn right and walk approximately 4 blocks.  Once you’ve crossed the bridge, we’re directly on the right along the river just behind the Equitable Building in the same plaza as Tribune Tower

Helpful Websites:

www.transitchicago.com
www.metrarail.com

Shuttle Service
Continental Airport Express provides airport transportation in the Chicago area:
1 888 2THE-VAN (1 888.284.3826)
http://www.airportexpress.com

24 hour advance notice is appreciated.
Ask the hotel concierge to arrange for your return trip to the airport.

Rates range from $15 to $25 one-way.  See On-line reservations for exact quotes.
All fares should be considered approximate & from a general area. You will get an exact price quote upon entering your departure/ arrival information in the online reservation system.

Exhibitors and sponsors are not participating in this event.

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