The Renaissance Brand
Posted: January 4, 2014 Filed under: brand strategy | Tags: brand, brand strategy, branding, digital thinking, marketing, marketing strategy Leave a commentThis is from a presentation I gave recently at an executive education course.
The premise: companies who wish to build successful brands need to draw knowledge, thinking and tools from multiple disciplines.
Enjoy.
There’s no attention without tension
Posted: August 4, 2013 Filed under: brand strategy, marketing strategy | Tags: brand strategy, branding, marketing, tension Leave a commentTo be human is to be conflicted. To live a life of constant, simultaneous contradictions.
That is why brands need to learn tension.
How to kill a brand
Posted: May 7, 2012 Filed under: brand strategy | Tags: brand strategy, branding, disruption, marketing, marketing strategy, strategy Leave a commentWhen you read articles such as this, this, or this, it brings to mind Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity.
This deck is about those brands that have forgotten some of the basic tenets of building great brands. Or even decent ones. Not all the brands mentioned in this deck are dead; some of them are merely dying, while others stood at death’s door (and decided not to knock). But most of them found creative ways to make the same mistakes, over and over again.
Most of the cases presented here are from recent times, except for two or three (a cornucopia of older examples can be found in Matt Haig’s book ). Go here for a great, in-depth read on RIM’s rise and fall.
One final note: Apple has contributed to the demise of several companies in this presentation – Nokia, RIM, Sony, Nintendo… You could say it disrupted their business (each in turn). But it wasn’t what you would call “classic” disruption – entering a market with a cheaper solution, with fewer features. Quite the opposite – it disrupted from ABOVE.
Enjoy.
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