ABSTRACT

Here’s a scenario that might be painfully familiar to many of you. You’re the vice president of marketing for a major financial services company-a leading provider of consumer credit cards-and critical decisions must be made. It’s late on a Monday afternoon and you’ve been locked in a conference room all day with your marketing managers, who have been hashing out plans for the upcoming quarter’s demand-generation campaigns.

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