'M2M Marketing (Machine to Machine)', by Jaime Castelló (EMBA 03 / Retail Marketing 05)

Programa de continuidad | Spanish

Past event
May 04 OF 2017 from 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM
Madrid ESADE Madrid. C/ Mateo Inurria, 27

REPORT

A look at the future of marketing

During the ESADE Alumni Refresher Programme on May 4th, professor Jaime Castelló enlarged upon his theory of how marketing can be done in a different way in a world where everything is connected.

Information technology has always had an impact on marketing. First, because of its impact on the way we communicate, from the invention of the printing press to the use of the smartphone. ''Today’s marketing budgets are spent increasingly on new technologies,'' said Castelló. Technology has also changed creativity, the way products reach customers and how products are paid for. In short, new technologies are changing the way we do marketing, so the technology of tomorrow will also affect us.

The Internet of Things

A new reality facing companies is the Internet of Things (IoT): separate things that are linked up, enabling them to share information and perform tasks without any direct human intervention. Professor Castelló explained that ''by the end of 2016, 6.400 million such things were connected, i.e. 30% more than in 2015. At this rate by 2020 there will be more than 20,000 million, a vast IoT network.''

Jaime Castelló then screened two videos about IoT and the technology that makes it possible: technology that is already on the market. On this basis of all these data, Castelló then outlined two possible horizons which may result from the IoT evolution: the year 2020 with more than 20,000 million connected things, and 2040, when machines will be able to think for themselves. What impact will both have on marketing?

Before presenting his theories, professor Castelló asked the audience to work as a group and imagine the future of marketing in both scenarios. After this short exercise, he then outlined his own theory.

2020 scenario

In Castelló’s theory, this is the year that platforms triumph over pipelines (production or assembly lines). ''Uber, for example, offers the same thing as Ford but has just an app. The main companies might be platform and not pipeline companies,'' he concluded.

The IoT would also enable us to know where our customers are at all times, opening up a new dimension: immediacy. The fact that all products are connected could lead to everything being sold as a service, depending on how they are used, and everyone paying for the use of things, as in Car2Go.

The Internet of Things is also changing how customers are contacted and is prompting corporate marketing departments to seek a new type of executive familiar with the technological environment.

Artificial intelligence

The second scenario proposed by Castelló involved machines able to learn by themselves: artificial intelligence. Voice and gestures will be enough to interact with them, smartphones, for example, will no longer be necessary.

Professor Castelló envisages a whole new world in which machines will do things we had never even imagined. We will share the world with another intelligent species. Machines will be able to take decisions or help us take decisions; we will state our wishes, and decisions will be taken by artificial intelligence. There will be some things we want to automate and others we do not. ''We will have to deal with a new segment, artificial intelligence, and we will have to know how they are going to take decisions and how we are going to prepare value propositions for decision makers.''

''Although we have used our imagination to look ahead, the biggest surprises always come from where you are not looking so it’s essential to be prepared,'' and with these words, Jaime Castelló ended his talk.

 

 

 

Programme

ESADE Alumni invites you to another great talk in our Refresher Program by Jaime Castelló (EMBA 03 / Retail Marketing 05), director of the Master in Marketing and Sales Management program (Madrid)

The terms B2B (Business to Business), B2C (Business to Consumer) and even P2P (Peer to Peer) are very common in the jargon of marketing and management in general, and have emerged in response to the upsurge in new corporate approaches, new ways of interacting with customers. Some of you will be familiar with the term M2M ''Machine to Machine'' in reference to a situation in which interconnected things are able to exchange information and perform tasks with no direct human intervention. Until recently this term was virtually unknown outside the IT world, but it is now becoming a reality for many businesses thanks to the development of two technologies: the transformation of isolated things into interconnected things, i.e. the Internet of Things, and the transformation of inert things into intelligent things, i.e. Artificial Intelligence. This talk in the Refresher Programme will take a look at the possible impact of these two technologies on marketing as a strategy and as a function, and the models and concepts that may be useful when working in this new environment.

 

 

 

Jaime Castelló

Jaime Castelló has a Degree in Economics and Business Studies from the Universidad de Valencia and an MBA from ESADE. He is currently a Lecturer on the Market Team and Co-director of the Master in Marketing Management of ESADE Executive Education in Madrid. He has developed his career in the commercial area of mass commodity companies, both in Spain and in Europe. He has held positions of responsibility in the trade marketing area in major Spanish food companies. He likewise has broad experience in the marketing of food products area for leading companies and international brands. This professional career is completed with his work with sales teams, both in Spanish companies and in multinationals, and both in sales to companies and managing key accounts of distribution multinationals. He joined ESADE in October 2005.

 

 

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ignacio.ramon@esade.edu