The next decade of Medicare Advantage: 2025 and beyond

The next decade of Medicare Advantage: 2025 and beyond

Medicare Advantage leaders must pivot to win in an era of stagnation and fierce competition

After years of steady growth, Medicare Advantage faces new headwinds. Carriers are struggling with rising acquisition costs, reduced member lifetime values, and increased complexity in delivering member services and refining go-to-market strategies. This paper examines the market forces behind these changes and provides actionable strategies for leaders to thrive by balancing financial discipline with data-driven agility. 

This paper covers:

The five forces transforming Medicare Advantage: Rising costs, fewer age-ins, declining member lifetime values, stagnant innovation, and changing go-to-market dynamics.

  • Declining member lifetime value (MLV): Driven by shrinking member tenure, stagnant CMS payments, and rising costs—together threatening profitability.
  • Communication overload: Overwhelming member communications—from ANOCs to EOBs—lead to poor engagement and diminishing member trust.
  • Digital transformation opportunities: Simplified and digitally assisted application processes can reduce switching and improve member retention.
  • The aggregator impact: A media buying frenzy driven by aggregators has created confusion, high acquisition costs, and lower-quality members.
  • Data-driven decision-making: Advanced analytics and democratized data quality empower carriers to make smarter decisions, while profitability-based audience targeting ensures channels are aligned to acquire and retain higher-quality members.

Download the paper now to learn how the next decade will reward Medicare Advantage leaders who embrace agility, analytics, and a member-first approach.

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The next decade of Medicare Advantage: 2025 and beyond

Learn how the next decade will reward Medicare Advantage leaders who embrace agility, analytics, and a member-first approach.

2025 B2B sales benchmarks

Uncover what sets high-growth B2B SaaS sales teams apart, with insights into strategies, budgets, and go-to-market challenges.

Enabling marketing innovation in highly regulated industries

This whitepaper explores the concept of an Innovation Lab, a dedicated platform where new, potentially significant marketing concepts and approaches are ideated and evaluated—then quickly developed, tested, analyzed, and quantified for expansion at scale.

Enabling marketing innovation in highly regulated industries

Enabling marketing innovation in highly regulated industries

enabling marketing innovation

Ideate, develop, test, and analyze significant marketing concepts

Within any large enterprise, there are challenges with constrained budgets, implausible timelines, capacity issues, and misaligned priorities. Marketers in highly regulated industries, like financial services, face additional hurdles due to strict regulatory requirements. Operating under conservative guidance from internal legal and compliance teams, it is often easier to negotiate strategically placed “may’s” than rocking the boat with something new and different. But this safe, historical approach does not easily facilitate experimentation with new ideas that can help accomplish more ambitious growth goals.

This whitepaper explores the concept of an Innovation Lab, a dedicated platform where new, potentially significant marketing concepts and approaches are ideated and evaluated—then quickly developed, tested, analyzed, and quantified for expansion at scale (or killed).

Download now to learn how you can create a lab that facilitates out-of-the-box ideation, and rapid test-and-learn cycles to evolve your company’s portfolio of strategies and advance your marketing maturity.

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Accelerate growth through test-and-learn marketing culture

Accelerate growth through test-and-learn marketing culture

Build a data-driven, full-funnel marketing approach

In the face of shrinking budgets and heightened internal pressure, marketing leaders are tasked with doing more with less. This 20-page whitepaper explores these challenges and provides steps to an efficient, measurable, and scalable marketing approach. What’s inside:
  • Budget realities: Marketing spend fell from 9.1% to 7.7% of revenue—leaders must do more with less.
  • Optimizing the funnel: Balance immediate demand capture with long-term brand investment.
  • Measurement and testing: Build a framework to assess and improve cross-channel performance.
  • Key testing levers: Focus on audience, product, channel, and creative for impactful results.
  • Scaling success: Apply insights to speed time to market and maximize ROI.
  • Preview and future access to part two: Learn how to design analytically sound tests to guide future growth strategies.

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The superpowered CDP: Building a go-to-market data lake

The superpowered CDP: Building a go-to-market data lake

A single source of truth for measurement, prediction, analysis, and activation

Organizations struggle with the intricacies of modern marketing technology, notably traditional Customer Data Platforms (CDPs). Despite a solid 67% adoption rate, Gartner‘s findings reveal a striking reality: only a mere 17% report high utilization.

This whitepaper explores the benefits of developing and maintaining owned, in-house Go-To-Market Data Lakes (GTMDL) as a supplement to traditional software-based CDPs or externally hosted marketing databases. CDPs often have fragmented customer profiles, low flexibility, and high cost; whereas, the GTMDL can offer more flexibility, scalability, and future-proofing while powering comprehensive analytics capabilities and traditional activation use cases.

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Measuring marketing’s effectiveness

Measuring marketing’s effectiveness

measuring marketing's effectiveness second edition

Imperatives and methods for CMOs and analytics teams in driving measurable marketing ROI

Only 23% of marketers are confident in their ability to measure full-funnel KPIs—a striking reality in an environment where precision and accountability are paramount. This gap highlights a pressing need for measuring marketing’s effectiveness: the ability to rigorously evaluate, optimize, and prove the impact of marketing activities across the entire funnel, from awareness to conversion. Far from a single metric or tool, marketing effectiveness is a strategic discipline that combines data-driven insights with practical frameworks to align marketing investments with measurable business outcomes.

The 2nd edition of our ultimate resource on measuring marketing’s effectiveness dives deeper into in-market testing and advanced measurement techniques. This paper equips marketing leaders with the tools to truly answer “what’s working and what’s not” to prove marketing’s profitability.

This paper covers:

  • The marketing effectiveness imperative: Overreliance on performance media can lead to shrinking brand equity, but CMOs and CFOs need faster insights across the funnel
  • The evolution of marketing measurement: From the early days of advertising and direct marketing to modern, advanced analytics.
  • Key struggles for CMOs measuring ROI: Upper-funnel brand measurement, post-cookie challenges, and the impact of earned media.
  • Four jobs-to-be-done by marketing analytics teams: What, why, who, and how to optimize efforts
  • Tools and methodologies: Testing, Martech, attribution, and measurement frameworks

Download the paper to master marketing effectiveness and drive measurable, lasting impact.

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A year-in-review: Marketing effectiveness trends

A year-in-review: Marketing effectiveness trends

2023 Observations and predictions for 2024

2023 was another fast-paced year when it came to marketing measurement. The marketing technology landscape changed quickly, with privacy concerns continuing to make identity resolution challenging. The media landscape moved further away from mass and broadcast and towards social. Affiliates—the digital advertising companies designed to intercept lower-funnel demand—grew, while at the same time, cracks appeared in their business model. Finally, new models and methods for statistical inference across testing and econometric modeling entered the scene, making modeling easier and more powerful.

Download the whitepaper for an 11-page summary of marketing effectiveness trends from 2023 and predictions for 2024.

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A roadmap for modern B2B go-to-market: Part 2 – operations and analytics

A roadmap for modern B2B go-to-market: Part 2 – operations and analytics

A comprehensive resource on running a go-to-market team

Today’s B2B organizations struggle with aligning their strategic objectives and operational realities with overarching goals. The second whitepaper in our series, “A roadmap to modern B2B go-to-market,” encompasses two main topics that enable growth—operations and analytics. Operations connects the dots between strategy and execution, ensuring a seamless transition from opportunity identification to revenue realization. At the same time, analytics give revenue leaders the tools they need to diagnose problems, measure results, and optimize operations on the fly and over the long run. Consider this an essential guide for revenue leaders fine-tuning their processes, technology, and analytics to thrive.

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Channel disruption: Navigating 5 fundamental shifts in healthcare marketing and sales channels

Channel disruption: Navigating 5 fundamental shifts in healthcare marketing and sales channels

A comprehensive resource on navigating channel disruptions in healthcare

Over the past four years, the Covid-19 pandemic, tightened marketing budgets, and consumer migration to digital channels have forced major changes to healthcare companies’ sales and marketing efforts. Marketing and sales leaders must now adapt to this new landscape by allocating shrinking budgets effectively, transitioning away from agent-led sales, and harnessing the power of automation to deliver personalized experiences at scale.

Drawing on deep industry expertise, this paper examines five disruptions impacting go-to-market strategy along with specific best practice solutions for navigating:

  • How to optimize a sales coverage model amidst shifting market dynamics
  • The art and science of calibrating the role of aggregators in a successful go-to-market strategy
  • The brand awareness imperative and its role in an insurer’s long-term success
  • How to strategically plan for local success and avoid the local marketing measurement trap
  • How to overcome the challenges of scaling personalized journeys

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This 27-page paper covers several topics in-depth…

Sales Disruption

  • Changing balance between self-service and agent-led channels
  • The role of aggregators

Marketing Disruption

  • The importance of brand marketing
  • Leveraging local marketing strategies effectively
  • The potential of (and barriers to) marketing automation platforms

A roadmap for modern B2B go-to-market: Part 1 – growth design

A roadmap for modern B2B go-to-market: Part 1 – growth design

A comprehensive resource on building stable, predictable revenue growth

In an era of rapid tech acceleration, maintaining executive poise can be challenging. Yet, amidst this dynamism, it’s growth that addresses all business quandaries. Successful leaders who build reliable, robust revenue streams will safeguard against diverse market factors. This is the crux of go-to-market strategy. This first whitepaper in our series on “A roadmap to modern B2B go-to-market,” kickstarts with an exploration into establishing consistent growth, drawing from our experience and countless client engagements. We dissect common go-to-market blunders and uncover the success formula of high-growth B2B firms. Consider this the indispensable manual for executives crafting a modern, sustainable go-to-market strategy.

This 49-page paper covers several topics in-depth…

  • Definition, history, and modern B2B go-to-market
  • Organic growth phases
  • Opportunity mapping, segmentation, targeting, and revenue motions
  • Coverage and role design
  • Organizational design and capacity planning

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A roadmap for modern marketing analytics

A roadmap for modern marketing analytics

How to make marketing science a reality—and deliver the analytic results that executives want

For all the promise of data-driven marketing decision-making, Gartner predicts CFOs will slash marketing analytics budgets by up to 60% in 2023. Companies have spent years building up these teams—however, they have largely been unable to deliver the data-driven results that executives want. In fact, the same study estimates that marketing analytics influences only 53% of marketing decisions.

Within this comprehensive resource, we cover the challenges of and approaches to operating an effective marketing analytics organization. First, we define the scope of marketing analytics, using a jobs-to-be-done framework: What (reporting on facts); Why (digging into causes); Who (understanding audiences and customers); How (attribution and mix); and What Will Happen (predictive modeling). Finally, we cover the seven functional areas that enable these jobs, and the best practices that make them work effectively: source systems, data pipelines, analytical data storage, data science, business intelligence, project management, and team skills.

This whitepaper is a detailed, concrete resource for marketers and marketing analytics professionals looking to take their organizations to the next level of data-driven decision-making.

 

Learn what marketing analytics teams need to better diagnose issues, predict outcomes, and allocate resources.

  • The six most common failure points for marketing analytics

  • The five key marketing analytics jobs-to-be-done

  • The seven functional building blocks of great marketing analytics teams 

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