When Rishi Dave joined Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) as chief marketing officer more than three years ago, the company — whose origins stretch back to the mid-19th century — was looking to reinvent itself.
“The big goal was to grow the company,” he told me, and to take “a consumer-like approach [to] modernize who we are and what we stand for.”
Dave said that everything was re-examined from the point of view of customer expectation. (Rishi Dave will join MarTech Conference Chair Scott Brinker for a discussion of “Reimagining Marketing’s Golden Triangle: People, Process & Technology” at our MarTech Conference in October.)
D&B CMO Rishi Dave
The reasons why, he said, were evident: “It was hard to explain what we do.” Although the company was well-known for providing a wide assortment of business data drawn from a database of 235 million companies, “customers couldn’t articulate what we did.”
So, D&B changed from a product-and-tech approach to a people-oriented approach.
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