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Building Sustainable Brands the Brand Management Process
1. Building Sustainable Brands:
The Brand Management Process
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2. Building Sustainable Brands:
The Brand Management Process
Introduction
Your organization’s brand represents a promise to employees, consumers and other
stakeholders. More than just a logo or advertisement, your brand has the unique ability to
unite all aspects of your organization and meaningfully differentiate you from competitors.
Although perceptions of your brand are created in the marketplace, they can be effectively
managed to drive growth by remaining true to the organization’s capabilities, core values and
heritage.
Gelb has a long history of working with healthcare organizations to create brand strategies
that look beyond an annual initiative and demonstrate long-term effectiveness. Below we have
outlined our brand process, which is organized into four stages: understand, create, deploy and
monitor.
Understand
Your foundation for success begins
with an understanding of the
objectives, how success will be
measured, and who will make
decisions. Lack of commitment from
leadership is a common reason that
healthcare brand strategies fail, so
obtaining executive buy-in is also a
crucial first step. You can learn more
about how to begin the branding
process with a solid foundation by
reading our article, Constructing a
Better Brand.
During this stage, a brand team should be developed. A brand team is a group that will play a
critical role throughout the process – reviewing research findings, evaluating options, and
ultimately making recommendations for change. Your brand team should engage crossfunctional stakeholders throughout the organization. For example, if your brand includes
multiple hospitals or centers, it is ideal to have at least one representative from each of them
on the brand team. Members of the brand team begin to feel a sense of ownership in the
process if they are engaged from the beginning planning process. This sense of ownership
facilitates their advocacy throughout the process and in the period of brand change.
Your brand team should then define success criteria. When developing these criteria, keep in
mind why the project was initiated and how it is expected to support the organization’s
business goals. To simulate discussion, you can discuss what each member of the brand team
wants to get out of the project, what success looks like, and how results will be measured.
Establishing success criteria is an important step, as they will be used to guide you brand
team’s decisions throughout the process.
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3. Building Sustainable Brands:
The Brand Management Process
Before making any decisions or changes, a brand audit will give you a thorough
understanding of your brand’s current positioning. A brand audit involves delving into your
current research and communications, as well as identifying gaps and conducting new
research. Most likely, you already have research to give you insight on issues such as patient
satisfaction, physician loyalty, and consumer preference. Analyzing this research will help you
understand how your brand’s goals compare with current performance and positioning.
At Gelb, we use our Brand Trust Model to organize these insights into key categories that
establish how the brand creates value, differentiates itself from competitors, and delivers an
exceptional experience. Below are examples of research that you can evaluate to provide
insight about each of these areas.
1. Customer Value: Examines the criteria
healthcare consumers use to choose among
local hospitals an importance of each
criterion. Also investigates drivers of overall
preference. For example, consumers could
be asked their level of agreement that you
offer the latest medical technology, have a
wide range of medical services, provide the
best patient care, or have the best nurses.
2. Consistent Experience: Targets those who
have used services at your hospital and examines overall satisfaction in areas such as
communication with nurses or doctors, or responsiveness of hospital staff.
3. Competitive Difference: Evaluates the strength of associations consumers make with
your brand and competing hospital brands, with questions focused on consumer
awareness/preference, advertising recall, and current market share.
4. Familiarity: Measures overall awareness and knowledge, such as how many people
have heard of or previously used your organization.
After reviewing and organizing your available research, it is likely that you will need to
conduct additional marketing research (quantitative and qualitative). These efforts will help
you fill information gaps needed to best create your brand strategy. It is risky to create a
healthcare brand strategy without gathering data to show what motivates your stakeholders
and drives their loyalty. It is also vital to develop an understanding of critical success factors
for gaining buy-in from your internal audience.
The following tables outline examples of research that can be crucial to understanding your
current brand positioning and developing prescriptions for growth.
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4. Building Sustainable Brands:
The Brand Management Process
Audience
Community Leaders &
Donors
(Qualitative interviews or
focus groups)
Referring Physicians
(Qualitative interviews)
Consumers
(Focus groups or online
survey of primary and
secondary service areas)
Audience
System and Program
Leadership
(Qualitative interviews)
Employees
(Focus groups or online
survey)
External Brand Audit
Purpose
Review their experience with your organization and
competitors, evaluate marketing effectiveness,
opportunities for improvement, and prescriptions for
growth
Determine satisfaction with current referral process,
perception of your organization and competitors, opinions
regarding current brand strategy, and recommendations
for change
Examine current preferences, attitudes, satisfaction and
ways to improve familiarity, customer value, experience
and competitive difference
Internal Brand Audit
Purpose
Review consumer research; determine critical success
factors and criteria for gaining buy-in
Understand gaps between consumer research and
employee perceptions; determine alignment with the
organization’s goals and willingness to adapt to
organizational change
Also included in this phase should be a messaging review of your publicly-available
marketing and communication materials. Examples of materials to review include advertising
(print, online, TV, radio), social media, websites and patient education materials. If your brand
has multiple names, logos or symbols, these materials should be organized and reviewed. The
goal of reviewing these materials is to create an inventory of how the brand promise is
expressed. By creating this inventory and understanding how your healthcare brand is being
expressed, you can identify key messages and visual vocabulary, as well as identify any gaps in
consistency, tone, keywords, etc.
Create
During this stage, information that you have learned from your brand audit and messaging
review should be synthesized into a presentation that will serve as a basis for a discussion with
the brand team. Your brand team should be brought together in a brand scenario workshop
devoted to analyzing the research and brainstorming new ideas. It is important to maintain a
collaborative environment in which the team has freedom to suggest ideas, ask questions and
develop agreement around decisions. A collaborative approach enables the team to take
ownership of decisions and ultimately act as champions for the brand.
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5. Building Sustainable Brands:
The Brand Management Process
Below are discussion topics for the workshop:
Research Review
o What were the key takeaways from the research?
o How is the brand perceived today?
o What are the opportunities for the brand?
o In what areas have we been the most successful?
Business Strategy
o What guidance is provided by your business strategy?
o How do your visions/mission/values align with your strategic priorities?
o How do we reflect the brand through interactions with our customers and
stakeholders?
Possibilities
o Who are we today? (current strengths, weaknesses, perceptions)
o What should we be in the future?
o How will we measure success?
Using insights and ideas from these discussions, brand scenarios can be created after the
workshop is completed. Each scenario should include visual metaphors, a value proposition
and positioning statement, service standards, the brand promise, and key messages. After the
scenarios have been completed, the brand team comes together again for brand scenario
evaluation. To provide a framework for the discussions, the scenarios should be evaluated
based on the success criteria that your brand team outlined at the beginning stage of this
process.
Below is an example of a spreadsheet for scenario evaluation.
Criteria
Low
Performance
Moderate
Performance
High
Performance
Supports mission
Believable
Memorable
Focus on customer needs
Focus on business benefits
Consistent messages
Consistent images
Recognizes current
perceptions
Once a brand has been chosen, documents can be created to guide decisions regarding the
brand and to communicate brand standards. The following paragraphs and images describe
these guiding documents.
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6. Building Sustainable Brands:
The Brand Management Process
Brand Architecture: This will guide decisions
regarding entities of the organization that could
benefit from the brand. This is particularly
important if your organization has multiple
facilities or partnerships, as it establishes the
differences among current brands. This image
(right) outlines the structure of a Brand
Architecture.
Message Map: This will guide future
communications from the master brand and any
affiliated brands. Based on collective thinking
from the brand team, you will outline how the
brand is perceived today, how you want it to be
perceive in the future, and how you will convince
them. This includes attitudes to overcome,
attitudes to reinforce, differentiating messages,
reasons to believe and how to leave a lasting
impression. The image to the right outlines the
contents of a Message Map.
The Brand Book: This document provides
guidance for marketing communication and
executives. It is used as a guide to stakeholders in
developing external and internal communications.
Included should be your brand definition, reasons
for change, how decisions were made, current
perceptions, value proposition, positioning
statement, service standards, brand promise,
expectation of staff, and success measures. It
should also be used as an opportunity to empower
your stakeholders to become brand advocates who
understand their role in bringing the brand to life
and buy into the strategy.
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7. Building Sustainable Brands:
The Brand Management Process
Deploy
Near the completion of the previous stage, a detailed timeline should be created for deploying
the new brand strategy to employees and consumers. This is an important opportunity to
communicate about your brand to your target audiences. Deployment will typically last
between three and six months, depending on your needs, and includes:
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Strategic and tactical planning
Defining success criteria and establishing benchmarks
Developing training materials, web site content or sales collateral
Determining the ideal customer experience (you can do this by using a qualitative
research process called Experience Mapping, which engages consumers in in-depth
interviews to understand their current and ideal experiences. You can learn more about
Experience Mapping by reading our article, Experience Mapping – Growing by
Understanding)
An important part of deployment is an internal launch that promotes understanding of the
brand and how employees should enact the brand in their everyday behaviors. When
employees feel included in the process and responsible for participating, they are more likely
to buy into the changes. Sustaining long-term momentum will require routine communication
that supports the brand and a commitment from management to make decisions with the
brand in mind. Therefore, be careful to avoid the all-too-common mistake of thinking brandrelated communication is minimally important after this stage has been completed.
Below is a list of resources for deploying the brand to employees and customers.
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Employees
Brand book
CEO letter
Launch video
Business cards/stationery
Intranet
Proposal/folders/collateral
On-site brand visits
PowerPoint template
Worksite posters
Building signage
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Customers
Questions/answers document
Video
CEO letter
Brochure
Tradeshow exhibits
Print advertising
Website
Monitor
Transforming branding initiatives to long-term cultural changes requires holding your
organization accountable for results. Regular communication about the brand and setting
expectations about how the brand will be protected through everyday decisions and service
standards is of upmost importance. Some organizations create brand experience training
programs that all new and current employees must complete. Experience training workshops
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8. Building Sustainable Brands:
The Brand Management Process
should include personal action plans in which employees develop specific goals for enacting
the brand promise. Management then uses these personal action plans during employee
evaluations. Or, action plans can be developed as a team and regularly referred to in team
meetings. In this way, the promise of the brand is regularly talked about and monitored
internally (for more information about this, read our white paper Developing a Customer
Focused Culture with Experience Mapping Workshops).
A particularly effective way to quantitatively monitor the brand is through
online dashboards. They allow you to monitor employee alignment,
customer satisfaction and touchpoint performance. Dashboard systems are
hosted online, so they can be accessed anywhere, anytime. Most
importantly, situations that may place the organization’s relationships “atrisk” are escalated for service recovery. Below are activities that can be
measured through a dashboard.
1. Customer Experience Dashboard: Continuously monitors the
customer experience and escalates at-risk issues via email. Our
experience dashboard efficiently distributes information in real time
for internal benchmarking and online reporting.
2. Touchpoint Performance Dashboard: Our touchpoint performance dashboard using
standard measures to test each new and existing touchpoint. This dashboard
distributes information in real time to identify best practices and cost-effectively test
new advertising (including TV and radio) before launch.
3. Organizational Excellence Dashboard: Monitors employee commitment to the
organization, prevailing attitudes and alignment with corporate goals. This tool is also
used to monitor satisfaction with support functions within your enterprise.
You can learn more about dashboards by reading our article, Action Marketing: Patient
Experience Dashboards.
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9. Building Sustainable Brands:
The Brand Management Process
About Endeavor
Endeavor Management, is an international management consulting firm that collaboratively
works with their clients to achieve greater value from their transformational business
initiatives. Endeavor serves as a catalyst by providing pragmatic methodologies and industry
expertise in Transformational Strategies, Operational Excellence, Organizational Effectiveness,
and Transformational Leadership.
Our clients include those responsible for:
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Business Strategy
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Marketing and Brand Strategy
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Operations
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Technology Deployment
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Strategic Human Capital
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Corporate Finance
The firm’s 40 year heritage has produced a substantial portfolio of proven methodologies,
deep operational insight and broad industry experience. This experience enables our team to
quickly understand the dynamics of client companies and markets. Endeavor’s clients span the
globe and are typically leaders in their industry.
Gelb Consulting Group, a wholly owned subsidiary, monitors organizational performance and
designs winning marketing strategies. Gelb helps organizations focus their marketing
initiatives by fully understanding customer needs through proven strategic frameworks to
guide marketing strategies, build trusted brands, deliver exceptional experiences and launch
new products.
Our websites:
www.endeavormgmt.com
www.gelbconsulting.com
www.gulfresearch.com
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