The data displays the largest challenges that contributed towards a lack of customer data accuracy according to marketing professionals in the U.S. from 2016 to 2018. In 2018, 49% of respondents stated that human error was the largest challenge, while the same reason was addressed by 37% of the professionals in 2017.
Human error | 58 | 37 | 49 |
Lack of internal communication between departments | 22 | 27 | 37 |
Inadequate data strategy | 29 | 31 | 34 |
Inadequate senior management support | 15 | 22 | 28 |
Lack of internal manual resources | 25 | 26 | 28 |
Insufficient budgets | 15 | 30 | 27 |
Inadequacies in current relevant technology | 21 | 23 | 27 |
A lack of relevant technology | 20 | 30 | 27 |
Lack of skill needed to correctly use existing technology | 22 | 11 | 26 |