This document discusses strategies for strong brand management in today's digital world. It contains the following key points:
1. Brands need to create powerful experiences that remove friction for customers and focus on meeting personal needs through design thinking.
2. Strong brand management requires understanding customers as people rather than just consumers, and mapping touchpoints to create interventions that deliver value.
3. Organizations must empower their marketing functions through clear vision, empowered teams, and building competencies to ensure internal and external consistency that drives business impact.
2. BEST
GLOBAL
BRANDS
2015
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sponsorship, or endorsement with any owner or mark.
4. The overall value of the entire table is up 7.4%
(from $1.6 trillion to $1.72 trillion)
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5. While there are 15 automotive brands in total, the 13 technology brands truly dominate
the ranking—making up more than a third of its value (33.5% of the total table value)
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8. Age of Identity
Age of Value
Age of Experience
Age of You
Brands act as "
a tool to identify
and differentiate
offering
Brands leveraged "
as assets to
improve business
decision making
Brands inspire new
products and services
to become a connected
ecosystem
Brands strive "
to become an
intelligent and
personal partner
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28. Powerful experiences create enduring
competitive advantage
Uber, the world’s largest taxi "
company, owns no vehicles. "
Facebook, the world’s most "
popular media owner, creates"
no content and Airbnb, "
the world’s largest accommodation
provider, owns no real estate.
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Tom Goodwin, SVP Strategy and Innovation, Havas Media
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31. Map where they spend time, what they value & where your brand collides
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32. Remove friction and create powerful interventions
Understand where the value is and how much to invest
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Touchpoint and role of touchpoint
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43. Services that help us live better lives
3. (Re) Designing the organisation
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44. Strong masterbrands deliver superior growth and mitigate risk
Source: Interbrand analysis of Best Global Brands
Benefits of the
Masterbrand:
• Strongly engage, both
internally and externally
• Create differentiation
• Build consistency across
the portfolio
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Strong master brand strategy
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45. Designing a strong brand requires strong internal management
Authenticity
The brand is soundly based on an internal truth and capability. "
It has a defined heritage and a well grounded value set. It can
deliver against the (high) expectations that customers have of it.
Relevance
The fit with customer/consumer needs, desires, "
and decision criteria across all relevant demographics
and geographies.
Consistency
The degree to which a brand is
experienced without fail across all
touchpoints or formats.
Presence
The degree to which a brand feels omnipresent and is
talked about positively by consumers, customers, and
opinion formers in both traditional and social media.
Understanding
The brand is not only recognised by customers, but there is also
an in-depth knowledge and under-standing of its distinctive
qualities and characteristics (where relevant, this will extend to
consumer understanding of the company that owns the brand).
Clarity
Clarity internally about what the brand stands for and its values,
positioning, and proposition. Clarity too about target audiences,
customer insights, and drivers. Because so much hinges on this, "
it is vital that these are articulated and shared across the organization.
Commitment
Internal commitment to brand, and a belief internally in the
importance of brand. The extent to which the brand receives
support in terms of time, influence, and investment.
Governance
The existence of an operating model for the brand
that enables the effective and efficient execution of
the brand strategy
Responsiveness
The ability to respond to market changes,
challenges, and opportunities. The brand should
have a sense of leadership internally and a desire
and ability to constantly evolve and renew itself.
EXTERNAL!
FACTORS!
INTERNAL!
FACTORS!
Differentiation
The degree to which customers/consumers
perceive the brand to have a differentiated
positioning distinctive from the competition.
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46. A strong masterbrand…
Brand Experience
Marketing Strategy
Brand Positioning
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Shaping the way the world
sees your brand
47. …is driven by a strong marketing capability
Vision for the Function
Empowered Team
and operating model
Talent, Skills, Platforms
Brand experience
Marketing Strategy
Brand Positioning
Shaping the way the world
sees your brand
Building the function that
drives the delivery
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48. Three core drivers for a strong brand/marketing function
1. Clear and inspiring vision
2. Empowered marketing organization
3. Competencies, skills and platforms
How
What
Why
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50. From Supporter to Builder
OPPORTUNITY!
INTEGRATED
EMPOWERING
PROACTIVE
SILOED
CONTROLLING
REACTIVE
INSIGHT!
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51. Organization
Create an Insights "
and Analytics team
Integrate identity, experience, "
and governance
Combine advertising "
and sponsorship execution
Create a Marketing "
Operations team
Establish a specialized group
focused on sponsorships "
and media acquisition
Develop specific organization
changes for Phase 2: Orchestrator
Supporter to Builder Roadmap
OPPORTUNITIES!
CONTROLLING
EMPOWERING
SILOED
INTEGRATED
REACTIVE
PROACTIVE
Ways of Working
Create cross-functional
interdisciplinary, BU-specific teams
to better align to BU objectives
and create stronger integration
Implant BU employees into teams
in BU liaison role to increase
collaboration and efficiency
Develop specific ways of working
changes for Phase 2: Orchestrator
Process, Training, Tools
Marketing operating model
Create annual planning process "
& summit agenda
Inc. aware of mktg’s value
Develop brand toolkit consisting "
of frameworks to execute brand
activities
Integrate “brand” into new hire
onboarding process
Develop Brand University to scale
brand programs
Agency evaluation tools
Develop specific activities/
initiatives for Phase 2: Orchestrator
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53. Optimizing effectiveness and efficiency
Present marketing
challenge and
KPIs to Steering
Team
1. CREATIVE BRIEFING PROCESS!
Develop creative
brief and
supporting
communications
plan
Discuss creative
challenge, KPIs
and necessary
creative success
metrics
2. CORE IDEA DEVELOPMENT!
Develop functional
creative briefs
3. AGENCY BRIEFING PROCESS!
Review briefs with
one on one calls
with agencies
Develop creative
concepts based on
core idea
4. CREATIVE CONCEPTING!
Review creative
concepts with one
on one calls with
agencies
5. FEEDBACK AND FOLLOW UP!
Project/Campaign-
in-review
presentation and
feedback round-
robin
TOOLKITDEPLOYMENT!
Alignment Meeting
Present brief and
plan to WW Team
Develop
integrated core
idea
Formal core idea
approval
Meet with BG
Geo. Leads to
ensure
transparency,
buy-in and
understanding and
streamline
Core idea
presentation and
overview for
functional brief
development
Formal functional
creative brief
approval
Present final
functional creative
briefs to WW
Team
Creative
presentations from
each Brand Union
agency and
alignment on
toolkit
development
Formal functional
creative concept
and toolkit
approval
Present final
creative toolkits to
WW Team
Gather usage and
performance data
from BG and Geo.
Leads and insights
on co-working
from all Brand
Union Agencies
Develop overall
insights, findings
and campaign-in-
review
Formal brief and
communications
plan approval
Present core idea
to WW Team
Alignment Meeting
Core WW Team
Pilot Agency
Steering Team
Functional agencies
Full Brand Union
Alignment Meeting
Alignment Meeting
Revisions based
on streamlined
feedback