Capitalizing on Transformation
While many are pursuing transformational change, BCG has found that most publicly announced transformations fail to deliver their full potential or promised results. Click here for my thoughts on ways to increase your chances of success!
Branding on Purpose: Intuit
Intuit developed its purpose by understanding customers’ problems and exploring its own values to uncover what the brand aspires to do about them.
For more on how Intuit CMO, Lara Hood Balazs, is working to reframe the brand and the way it speaks with consumers to align to the company’s mission, click here.
Branding on Purpose: Natura-Avon deal
Natura’s acquisition of Avon is the latest example of brands pursuing growth and profitability by broadening their focus to serve stakeholders, including employees and their communities, as well as shareholders. Read the post
Ways Employee Advocacy Benefits Brands
It all starts with a compelling #vision for the brand’s #noblepurpose and how it improves peoples’ lives. Read the post
Nestle Tests Blockchain for Dairy
Blockchain is emerging as a key tool in the scramble to earn customer trust by providing supply chain transparency. Read the post
CEO Summit-Hopleain vF (pdf)
DownloadThank you to Zack Abbott, CEO and founder of ZBiotics, for agreeing to be our client this semester in Strategic Brand Management. After a thorough briefing on the business, our EWMBA262 teams completed a comprehensive Brand Audit of the ZBiotics brand.
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ZBiotics Consolidated Brand Audit (pdf)
DownloadThank you to Suzie Ivelich for inviting me to present to this semester's Berkeley Haas Undergraduate Brand Management students. We love this kind of branding and marketing training. We used KIND Snacks to practice the key steps in brand strategy development. Students drafted the brand's Vision, Benefits Hierarchy and Positioning. And everyone got to eat the product!
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Positioning Practice - KIND Snacks (pdf)
DownloadThank you to the Women Entrepreneurs at Berkeley team for the opportunity to speak at #BerkeleyHaas last week about "Why Stuff Sells." The key: Having a #CustomerCentric #ValueProposition and aligning your #CX to deliver it. We love doing these types of branding presentations and workshops!
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On Being Customer Centric (pdf)
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