Mass Marketing was the invention of the FMCG sector where it has been working very well since marketers have always been in the driver's seat of all the marketing-mix elements. Other roles involved in commerce, such as R&D, production, operations, sales, and key account management, have always followed the strategies as articulated by brand, and marketing management.
In more complex environments such as large-scale services or high tech DCGs sectors - where the marketing role came onboard much later - Marketing has never really led and thus always struggled in convincing other functions of the importance of a customer focus. After all, the customer was not a top priority and Marketing was just one of the many contributors to the customer experience journey.
The traditional marketing function has been responsible for a number of Customer-Centric enablers such as: market mapping; customer research and segmentation; brand positioning and service concept; e-commerce and loyalty management.
The responsibility of Encompass Marketing goes much further by aligning and translating the 8 Customer-Centricity drivers into tangible deliverables at all stages of the customer experience journey.