This episode of Time to Value explores where tech and service providers struggle to align GTM teams. It also offers advice on how best to improve cross-functional GTM collaboration and performance measurement.

Rahim Kaba is a senior director analyst and key initiative leader for Gartner. He advises product marketing and tech leadership teams on critical aspects of their go-to-market strategies to help them grow, outperform their peers and create value for their customers. His core areas of focus include segmentation, positioning, differentiation, competitive intelligence, buyer personas, messaging, sales enablement, win-loss analysis and product launch best practices. He also helps clients with building and growing high-performance product marketing teams.

Ray Pun is a senior director analyst in Gartner’s technology marketing practice that serves emerging, midsize, and enterprise-level technology and service providers. He provides research and advisory services to help clients improve their go-to-market effectiveness with a focus on account-based marketing, marketing metrics and B2B marketing technologies. As a key initiative leader, he is responsible for orchestrating a vibrant research agenda for topics related to partner and developer ecosystems, product-led growth and marketing performance.

Time to Value: The Gartner Marketing and Product Management Podcast host Craig Lowery and guest analyst Ed Anderson discuss why sustainability is now a critical factor in product management. They explore how sustainability influences customer purchasing decisions and enhances corporate reputations, emphasizing the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) aspects into products.

Listen to learn why product managers cannot afford to overlook sustainability, and how it can be a significant business value driver.

Ed Anderson is a research vice president and distinguished analyst within Gartner’s technology and service provider organization. He leads Gartner’s research into sustainability best practices for vendors and the product and service offerings delivered by providers. This research defines best practices for operating in a sustainable fashion across environmental, social and governance activities.

He created Gartner’s Vendor Sustainability Assessment, a methodology to assess the sustainability posture of providers, highlighting areas of strength and weakness.

This episode looks at the continued evolution of ABM, highlights key ABM data points from Gartner’s 2024 Tech Marketing Benchmarks and includes a discussion about key drivers of best-in-class ABM programs.

Host Todd Berkowitz is the practice vice president for Gartner’s technology marketing practice. Todd manages a team of analysts that advise B2B technology marketing leaders across a wide range of topics including marketing org design/leadership, budgets and metrics, demand generation and ABM, product marketing, marketing ops, sales enablement, and customer experience. Previously, Todd initiated and built Gartner’s coverage around ABM and ABM platforms.

Guest Ray Pun is a senior director analyst in Gartner’s technology marketing practice that serves emerging, midsize and enterprise-level technology and service providers. He provides research and advisory services to help clients improve their go-to-market effectiveness with a focus on ABM, marketing metrics and B2B marketing technologies. As a key initiative leader, he is responsible for orchestrating a vibrant research agenda for topics related to partner and developer ecosystems, product-led growth and marketing performance. In addition, Ray is the lead author for Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Account-Based Marketing Platforms.

Guest Jenifer Silverstein is a senior director, analyst for Gartner for Technology and Service Providers, based in Massachusetts. She is a content leader for Gartner’s research focusing on technology marketing demand generation planning and execution. In her role as analyst, she provides research and advisory services to help clients establish and optimize their demand generation, ABM and digital marketing strategies. She is a co-author for Gartner’s Magic Quadrant on Account-Based Marketing Platforms, delivering a comprehensive view for marketers to evaluate platforms that can best help their organization enable better decision making, improve engagement across accounts and deliver measurable value.