This authority leadership campaign will leverage and aggregate insights from key IT and marketing stakeholders to address the need for tighter alignment and collaboration between these functional groups. Yet, according to this new report from the CMO Council and Accenture, "The CMO-CIO Alignment Imperative: Driving Revenue through Customer Relevance," marketing and IT executives do not believe they are highly effective partners, as they struggle to achieve common goals in the race to adopt and keep pace with rapidly evolving digital marketing capabilities.