Never before has there been such a stark dichotomy in marketing: customers demand the type of deep personalization from brands that technology companies like Netflix and Amazon deliver, but they are increasingly leery of offering the type of personal data required to make it happen. Over the years companies have built byzantine stacks of various marketing and advertising technology to try and deliver the fabled right person, right message, right time experience to deliver on customer journeys, but have found themselves stuck with a hot mess of siloed systems, disconnected processes, and legacy technical debt. Riding in like a white knight, Customer Data Platforms have come to the fore, offering companies a seemingly plug-and-play way to capture, unify, activate and analyze customer data. CDPs are the hottest technology category for marketers today, a growing category with over 100 different companies, and a hot topic at industry events and in industry press. But are CDPs worthy of the hype? Customer Driven takes a a deep dive into everything CDP and breaks down the fundamentals, including how to: -Understand the problems of managing customer data -Define the category and understand what CDPs do (and dont do) -Organize and harmonize customer data for use in marketing -Build a safe, compliant first party data asset your brand can use as fuel -Create a data-driven culture that puts customers at the center of everything you do -Understand how to leverage AI and machine learning to drive the future of personalization -Orchestrate modern customer journeys that react to customers in real-time -Power analytics with customer data to get closer to true attribution   In the book, youll discover the three different types of CDPs, how to build a customer driven framework for success, how to implement prescriptive and predictive customer journeys, and how to build 1:1 engagement that scales at the speed of todays customers.