TY - JOUR AB - Marketing has habitually avoided performance measurement, pleading difficulties with quantification of its activities and their outcomes. As a result, in many companies marketing has become marginalized to a straightforward marketing communications, whereas, it should hold a pivotal role in the identification of customer needs, specification of the value sought and demand generation, interpreted in its widest sense. This paper shows how marketing and the rest of the organization should relate to each other in the process of customer and value development and delivery, on which business performance depends. It discusses the importance of marketing in four constituents of performance measurement; resources, processes, products/services and financial performance. The CIMBA model of marketing processes is used to demonstrate that there can be no return on marketing investment without delivery through core operations. The paper concludes that marketing and business performance measurement are indispensable to each other. VL - 8 IS - 4 SN - 1368-3047 DO - 10.1108/13683040410569424 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/13683040410569424 AU - Woodburn Diana PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/01/01 TI - Engaging marketing in performance measurement T2 - Measuring Business Excellence PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 63 EP - 72 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -