{"podcast":{"title":"The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström®: Expert Mode Marketing Technology, AI, & CX","slug":"the-agile-brand-with-greg-kihlstr-m-expert-mode-marketing-technology-ai-cx-1164310","podcast_index_feed_id":1164310,"rss_url":"https://rss.introcast.io/1455031182/feeds.megaphone.fm/THEAGILEBRAND6092919469","website_url":"https://www.theagilebrand.show","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6a0c9379b23d275dcea75cd0/show-cover.png","author":"The Agile Brand","episode_count":884,"summary":"Expert mode marketing technology, AI, and CX insights from top brands and Martech platforms fill every episode, focusing on what leaders need to know to build customer lifetime value and long-term business value. The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström® features executives and thought leaders from top brands and tech platforms discussing industry trends, such as AI adoption, first-party data strategies, artificial intelligence in the consumer journey, consumer data privacy, omnichannel customer experience, and more.The Agile Brand is hosted by Greg Kihlström, martech futurist, artificial intelligence transformation advisor, and consultant to leading brands, speaker, entrepreneur, and best-selling author. The show provides a fresh perspective on the continually evolving dynamic between brands and the audiences they serve.Topics include AI adoption, agentic commerce, brand strategy, content strategy. marketing operations, advertising technology, marketing analytics, and more. Hosted on Acast. 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Agility requires more than just reacting quickly to market changes. It requires a resilient, long-term mission that acts as a north star, ensuring that every pivot and experiment builds enduring value, not just short-term gains. Today, we're going to talk about the tension that every marketing leader feels: the conflict between the relentless demand for measurable, short-term results and the need to build a brand with a durable, long-term mission. We’ll explore how the very systems designed to measure success can sometimes corrupt a company's purpose, and how a new definition of value can create a strategic advantage that outlasts fleeting market trends. To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome, Eric Ries, Author of The Lean Startup, and the new book, Incorruptible. About Eric Ries Over the last two decades, Eric Ries’s ideas about continuous innovation, long-term thinking, governance, and market reform have reshaped company building and management practices. He is the creator of the Lean Startup method, and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup; The Leader’s Guide; and The Startup Way. As a founder, he has put his own ideas into practice with The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE); Answer.AI, an AI R&D lab; the Lean Startup Co, which teaches and supports the implementation of Lean Startup; Virgil, a legal services startup; and IMVU, where the ideas that became the Lean Startup method were forged. 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