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Strategic Brand Management

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Soni Simpson

Brand Team Introductions

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Course Overview

What Do You Think Youre Going to Learn this Quarter? Were going to define and refine our thinking about brands, what they are and how to manage them Well build off text, industry experts & studies, guest lecturers, real life experience and class exercises

Strategic Brand Management


09/10/03 AGENDA TACTICAL Application Top Brands Brand Share Brand vs Product vs Company Brand Management Brand Management Task Models Product Levels IN CLASS CASE STUDIES Brand Definition Self Positioning Brand Relevance Du Pont Case Study Power and Corporate Brands Due Next Week Brand Equity Brand Value Good To Great Companies/Hedgehog

Strategic Brand Management


The World's 10 Most Valuable Brands - 2002
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 VALUE ($billions) COCA-COLA 69.6 MICROSOFT 64.1 IBM 51.2 GE 41.3 INTEL 30.9 NOKIA 30.0 DISNEY 29.3 McDONALD'S 26.4 MARLBORO 24.2 MERCEDES 21.0

Interbrands Assessment is of Brand Power the fullest possible view of each brands strengths and potential as a marketing and financial asset.
Data: Interbrand Corp., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co / Business Week AUGUST 5, 2002

Strategic Brand Management


The Top 10 Global Marketers - 2002
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Ad Spending Outside US (MMs) UNILEVER 2,967 PROCTOR & GAMBLE 2,610 NESTLE 1,560 TOYOTA 1,345 VOLKSWAGON 1,290 COCA-COLA CO. 1,176 FORD MOTOR CO. 1,127 GENERAL MOTORS 1,028 PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN 1,004 FIAT 998
Data: Global Marketers (Ad Age Global, 11/01) Ranks advertisers by estimated total measured advertising outside the US Ad Age Fact Pack; Sept 9, 2002

Strategic Brand Management


The Top 10 Global Marketers
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

- 2002

The World's 10 Most Valuable Brands


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 VALUE ($billions) COCA-COLA 69.6 MICROSOFT 64.1 IBM 51.2 GE 41.3 INTEL 30.9 NOKIA 30.0 DISNEY 29.3 McDONALD'S 26.4 MARLBORO 24.2 MERCEDES 21.0

- 2002

Ad Spending Outside US (MMs)

UNILEVER 2,967 PROCTOR & GAMBLE 2,610 NESTLE 1,560 TOYOTA 1,345 VOLKSWAGON 1,290 COCA-COLA CO. 1,176 FORD MOTOR CO. 1,127 GENERAL MOTORS 1,028 PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN 1,004 FIAT 998

Data: Global Marketers (Ad Age Global, 11/01) Ranks advertisers by estimated total measured advertising outside the US Ad Age Fact Pack; Sept 9, 2002

Data: Interbrand Corp., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co / Business Week AUGUST 5, 2002

Strategic Brand Management


The Top 10 US Mega Brands - 2002
US Ad Spending ($MM) 1 AT&T 996.6 2 Verizon 824.4 3 Chevrolet 780.4 4 Ford 655.9 5 Mc Donalds 635.1 6 Sprint 620.4 7 Toyota 568.3 8 Sears 511.5 9 Dodge 499.2 10 Chrysler 474.4
Data: Megabrands, AA July 22, 2002 Media Dollars excluding promotion & direct marketing expenses Ad spending for CY2001

Strategic Brand Management


The Top 10 US Advertisers - 2002
US Ad Spending ($BIL) 1 General Motors 3.37 2 P&G 2.54 3 Ford 2.41 4 Pepsi Co 2.21 5 Pfizer 2.19 6 Daimler-Chrysler 1.99 7 AOL Time Warner 1.89 8 Philip Morris 1.82 9 Walt Disney 1.76 10 Johnson & Johnson 1.62
Data: 100 Leading National Advertisers (AA June 24, 2002) Ad spending for CY2001 includes advertising, promotion and direct marketing expenses

Strategic Brand Management


The Top 10 US Mega Brands

- 2002

The Top 10 US Advertisers

- 2002

US Ad Spending ($MM) 1 AT&T 996.6 2 Verizon 824.4 3 Chevrolet 780.4 4 Ford 655.9 5 Mc Donalds 635.1 6 Sprint 620.4 7 Toyota 568.3 8 Sears 511.5 9 Dodge 499.2 10 Chrysler 474.4

US Ad Spending ($BIL) 1 General Motors 3.37 2 P&G 2.54 3 Ford 2.41 4 Pepsi Co 2.21 5 Pfizer 2.19 6 Daimler-Chrysler 1.99 7 AOL Time Warner 1.89 8 Philip Morris 1.82 9 Walt Disney 1.76 10 Johnson & Johnson 1.62

Data: Megabrands, AA July 22, 2002 Media Dollars excluding promotion & direct marketing expenses Data: 100 Leading National Advertisers (AA June 24, 2002) Ad spending for CY2001 Ad spending for CY2001 includes advertising, promotion and direct marketing expenses

What is a Product?

Kotlers Five levels to a product:

Potential Product

Augmented Product

Expected Product

Generic Product
CORE BENEFIT

What is a Product?

Kotlers Five levels to a product:

Potential Product

Augmented Product The Fundamental Need or Want that consumers satisfy by consuming the product or service

Expected Product

Generic Product
CORE BENEFIT

What is a Product?

Kotlers Five levels to a product:

Potential Product

Augmented Product

Expected Product

Generic Product
CORE BENEFIT

Basic Version of the product containing only those elements absolutely necessary to function. No distinguishing features.

What is a Product?

Kotlers Five levels to a product:

Potential Product

Augmented Product

Expected Product

Attributes and Characteristics that buyers normally expect and agree to when they purchase a product

Generic Product
CORE BENEFIT

What is a Product?

Kotlers Five levels to a product:

Potential Product

Augmented Product

Expected Product

Additional product attributes, benefits, or related services that distinguish the product from competitors

Generic Product
CORE BENEFIT

What is a Product?

Kotlers Five levels to a product:

Potential Product

Augmented Product

Expected Product

All the augmentations and transformations that a product might ultimately undergo in the future

Generic Product
CORE BENEFIT

What is a Product?

Kotlers Five levels to a product:

Potential Product

All the augmentations and transformations that a product might ultimately undergo in the future Additional product attributes, benefits, or related services that distinguish the product from competitors Attributes and Characteristics that buyers normally expect and agree to when they purchase a product

Augmented Product

Expected Product

Generic Product
CORE BENEFIT

Basic Version of the product containing only those elements absolutely necessary to function. No distinguishing features. The Fundamental Need or Want that consumers satisfy by consuming the product or service

What is a Brand?

Not simply a product -- anything offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use, or consumption that might satisfy a need or want. A product can be:

Physical good Service Retail Store Person Organization Place Idea

What is a Brand?
Product = Commodity
A product is a produced item always possessing these characteristics: Tangibility Attributes and Features

Brand = Mind Set


The sum of all communications and experiences received by the consumer and customer resulting in a distinctive image in their mind set based on perceived emotional and functional benefits.
Timothy D. Ennis, Ennis Associates, Inc

What is a Brand?

Derivation
Old Norse brandr = to burn branding livestock

Heritage
A means to distinguish goods from one producer vs

another.

AMA (technical definition)


Name, term, sign, symbol, or design, or a combination

of them, intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competition

What is a Brand?

AMA defines a brand vs a Brand. What does the AMA definition leave out?

What is a Brand?

Kellers Definition:
A product, but one that adds other dimensions that

differentiate it in some way from other products designed to satisfy the same need.

Rational and tangible Symbolic, emotional and intangible

The psychological response to a brand can be as important as the physiological response.

What is a Brand?
Product = Commodity
A product is a produced item always possessing these characteristics: Tangibility Attributes and Features

Brand = Mind Set


The sum of all communications and experiences received by the consumer and customer resulting in a distinctive image in their mind set based on perceived emotional and functional benefits.
Timothy D. Ennis, Ennis Associates, Inc

Why Does A Brand Matter?


MANUFACTURERS ID to simplify handling or tracing Legal protection of unique features Signal of quality level to satisfied customers Means of endowing products w/unique associations Competitive Advantage Financial Returns CONSUMERS ID Product Source Assignment of responsibility to maker Risk reducer Search cost reducer Promise, bond, or pact w/make of product Symbolic Device Signal of Quality

What is a Brand?
Products dont exist in a void They are bought because consumers have found something they relate to in them, something which they value Brand = Credible Guarantee

What is a Brand?

Relative Brand Distinction


The more distinctive or different a brand is in

the consumers mind set, the stronger brand preference becomes. This is critical to keeping competition from the consumers consideration.
Products (Commodities) No Difference Except Price Brand Name Well Known But Similar Strong Brand Brand Distinctive Perceived by the Consumer as Unique
Timothy D. Ennis, Ennis Associates, Inc

What is a Brand?

Relative Brand Distinction


A brands preference is primarily built through

differentiation and relevance Insulate product from competition OWN Something


Products (Commodities) No Difference Except Price Brand Name Well Known But Similar Strong Brand Brand Distinctive Perceived by the Consumer as Unique
Timothy D. Ennis, Ennis Associates, Inc

What is a Brand?
Potential Product Kotlers Five Levels

of A Product

Augmented Product

BRAND DISTINCTION by Timothy D. Ennis


Products (Commodities)
No Difference Except Price

Expected Product

Brand Name
Well Known But Similar

Strong Brand
Brand Distinctive Perceived by the Consumer as Unique

Generic Product
CORE BENEFIT

What is a Brand?
Potential Product Kotlers Five Levels

of A Product

Augmented Product

BRAND DISTINCTION by Timothy D. Ennis


Products (Commodities)
No Difference Except Price

Expected Product

Brand Name
Well Known But Similar

Strong Brand
Brand Distinctive Perceived by the Consumer as Unique

Generic Product
CORE BENEFIT

OWN Something

What is a Brand?

What Makes the Best Brands?


Source of company wealth for generations Improves with Age Develop clearly defined personalities Develop affection & loyalty of the public Become parents to sub-brands and brand extension

Brands = Powerful emotional tools

What Is a Brand?

Truly understood brands are the things which patrol the boundary between people and the world outside them. A brand with an emotional difference can potentially command a premium forever.

Strategic Brand Management


Case Groups Definition: Product Service Corporation Brand

Strategic Brand Management

Corporation vs Service vs Product vs Brand

Alternative Branding Models


Company dominates Brands
American Express (cards) BMW (Motorcycles) Colgate (Total toothpaste) Disney (Films) General Electric (appliances) IBM (Technology) LOreal (Cosmetics) Sony (Electronics) Holiday Inn (Crowne Plaza)

Company is equal to Brands


Anheuser Busch = Budweiser Campbell Soup = Godiva Chrsyler = Jeep Estee Lauder = Clinique Kraft = Maxwell House PepsiCo = Mountain Dew Time Warner = Warner Bros 3M = Scotch Tape Marriott = Courtyard

Brands dominate the Company


Skol (Am Bev) Claridge Hotel (Savoy) Crest (P&G) Healthy Choice (Con-Agra) Hidden Valley Ranch
(Clorox)

Kleenix (Kimberly-Clark) Marlboro (Philip Morris) MCA Records (Universal


Studios)

Wranlger (VF Jeans)


Kevin Clancy, Copernicus

POWER BRANDS
The World's 10 Most Valuable Brands - 2002
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 VALUE ($billions) COCA-COLA 69.6 MICROSOFT 64.1 IBM 51.2 GE 41.3 INTEL 30.9 NOKIA 30.0 DISNEY 29.3 McDONALD'S 26.4 MARLBORO 24.2 MERCEDES 21.0

Interbrands Assessment is of Brand Power the fullest possible view of each brands strengths and potential as a marketing and financial asset.
Data: Interbrand Corp., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co / Business Week AUGUST 5, 2002

POWER BRANDS

The Successful Brands


Dont JUST sell products Communicate Clear Values Stretch Across a Number of Products Attached to Consumers/ NOT Products Individualized Relationships

POWER BRANDS

Allow Consumers to clearly identify and specify products which genuinely offer added value. Deep respect for the way products fit into consumers lives = core of success
Consumer Relationship = Loyalty Social Changes in their favor

POWER BRANDS

RIGHT MIX = Organization Excellence + Marketing Sensitivity + Long-term Commitment Brand Values Transcend National Cultures
Emphasize Classlessness, Service, Consistency
Coke and Mc Donalds demonstrate most

POWER BRANDS

Assessing BRAND POWER


BRAND DEPTH

POWER

BRAND WEIGHT
Interbrand

POWER BRANDS

Assessing BRAND POWER

The influence or dominance that a brand has over its category or market (more than just market share)

BRAND WEIGHT
Interbrand

POWER BRANDS

Assessing BRAND POWER

The stretch or extension that the brand has achieved in the past or is likely to achieve in the future (especially outside its original category)

Interbrand

POWER BRANDS

Assessing BRAND POWER

The breadth of franchise that the brand has achieved both in terms of age spread, consumer types and international appeal

Interbrand

POWER BRANDS

Assessing BRAND POWER


BRAND DEPTH

The degree of commitment that the brand has achieved among its customer base and beyond. The proximity, the intimacy and the loyalty felt for the brand.

Interbrand

POWER BRANDS

Assessing BRAND POWER


BRAND DEPTH

POWER

BRAND WEIGHT
Interbrand

Power Brand = Master Brand?

Manifestation of Brand Essence A term that USED TO apply only to overarching family brands (Nestle) NOW applies to entire companies that rally around a single brand identity
Focus on entire value proposition rather than a

single products functionality

Branding the Corporation

Brands are not just products but companies:


Ford IBM

Sony

Why has marketing refocused efforts on the potential of corporate brands?

Branding the Corporation

Cost of creating and supporting product brands has become prohibitive


$1Bil to develop a brand across US, EC, FE

Increasing retailer power Traditional brand management not as effective/efficient Focus moving up the value chain

Brand Relationship Spectrum


Master Branding the Corporation Enhances Brand Clarity
Clear brand priorities

Synergy
Every exposure generates awareness

Leverage
Corporate brand in all Company strategies

Branding the Corporation

Thus, Benefits of Corporate Branding:


Every marketing dollar benefits each one of a

companys division/products Attracts and inspires employees, stakeholders and business partners Supplier and Vendor relationships deeper and longer term Connects up goodwill generated by operations + adds public support/PR in crisis

Branding the Corporation

Benefits of Corporate Branding:


New product launches/extensions cheaper and

quicker Long Term strategic focus Financial performance and value creation can be enhanced

Branding the Corporation

What Might be Some of the Difficulties?


Organizations can be extremely complex Wide variety of audiences make consistent

proposition communication difficult Too many businesses: Easier to build a rep & image when one is known for one product or service

Branding the Corporation

What Might be Some of the Difficulties?


Led from the top. CEOs are difficult to pin

down for day-to-day brand management Business Directors often have finance or operations backgrounds not marketing

Master Brands
Class Examples of Master Brands

Branding

Different outcomes result from the marketing of a product or service because of its
brand name brand element brand identification

WHAT ELSE?

Brand Equity

Common Denominator to interpret the potential effects and trade offs of various strategies and tactics
Common Denominator for assessing the value of a brand

Brand Equity

Fundamentally, stresses the importance of the role of the brand in marketing strategies. Marketing effects uniquely attributed to the brand Represents the ADDED VALUE endowed as a result of past marketing investments. Bridge between the past and future possibilities

Brand Equity

A set of stored values that consumers associated with a Product/Service. These associations add value beyond the basic product functions due to past investments in marketing the Brand.

Timothy D. Ennis, Ennis Associates, Inc

Brand Equity

How can Brand Equity be created? How can Brand Equity be measured? How can Brand Equity be used to expand business opportunities?

Brand Equity

Brand Ingredients:

Brand Name & heritage Packaging (structure & graphics) & signage Brand symbols, properties and logos Perceived quality, reliability & convenience Defined level of satisfaction Meaningful (premium) price/value relationship Purchase & usage experiences Consumer perceptions, attitude & behaviors Emotional associations with the product/services
Timothy D. Ennis, Ennis Associates, Inc

Brand Equity

BRAND GESTALT
Brand Personality Visual Appearance Country of Origin

Physical Product Attributes Quality Uses


Tangible Benefits

Logo
Brand Customer Relationship

User Imagery

Emotional Benefits

Kevin Clancy, Copernicus modified by Soni Simpson

Brand Equity
The Coca-Cola Brand Is

1800s Heritage Americana Vanilla Coke Authenticity

The Real Thing Red & White Striped Can Sold Everywhere Battles with Pepsi

Brand Equity
The Mc Donalds Brand Is

The Big Mac French Fries Fun For Children

Happy Meals Red and White Restaurants Ronald Mc Donald

Golden Arches

Value for Your Money

Brand Equity

A synthesis of all elements, physical, aesthetic, rational AND emotional.


End result =
appropriate differentiated

relevant

Branding

Brand Imposing Ones Will OLD On SCHOOL THINKING The Consumer


DIPLOMA

Branding
Pretty much everything today can be seen in relation to a love-respect axis. You can plot any relationship with a person, with a brand by whether its based on love or based on respect. It used to be that a high respect rating would win. But these days, a high love rating wins. If I dont love what youre offering me, Im not even interested.
- Kevin Roberts, Saatchi and Saatchi

Branding
Love * Mark

TradeMark
Trust-Mark

POWER BRANDS
Attached to Consumers Those Brands which are Deep respect particularly well adapted to for the way products fit into Consumers liveswhich the environment and = Core of Success thus, survive and flourish.

Brand Equity

A set of stored values that consumers associated with a Product/Service. These associations add value beyond the basic product functions due to past investments in marketing the Brand.

Timothy D. Ennis, Ennis Associates, Inc

Brand Value Breakdown


$US Billions

120 100 80 60 40 20 0
CocaCola J&J P&G Unilever Amazon

INTANGIBLE & Goodwill Net TANGIBLE Assets

Brand Value

Measurable Financial Value


Legal Systems recognize brand value
Most countries now recognize intellectual

property is REAL property w/rights of ownership

Trademarks, Patents, Designs, Copyright

Consumer Value

Brand Value

Multiple values for a brand Communicated through every medium from shelf to advertising to editorial to word-of-mouth. Coca-cola

Bottle shape Can color Logo type face Taste Youthful messages FORMULA

Are Brand Values Equal?

Brand Value

Three Tiers of Brand Value


Functional Values Expressive Values

Central Values

Interbrand; The Worlds Greatest Brands.

Brand Value Corresponding to Brand Hierarchy Pyramid

Central

Expressive

Functional

Brand Value

Functional Values:
Govern product performance

Coke refreshes its drinker Volvo gives its driver a safe ride IBM PC provides quick computing Pepsi refreshes Mercedes is as safe as Volvo Apple is as quick as IBM

Dont differentiate products


Brand Owners bright ideas can be instantly copied in

every continent
Interbrand; The Worlds Greatest Brands.

Brand Value

Expressive Values:
Say less about the product & more about the

consumer Reflect and enhance the consumers sense of him/herself Provide a key source of brand differentiation

Marlboros - masculine values Armanis - status and fashionable values Apple - creative and human values
Interbrand; The Worlds Greatest Brands.

Brand Value

Central Values:
Most Enduring Right to the Core of the Consumers Belief System

At their purest = embodied in religious, national or

political persuasions Comparable power = embody mass movements or cultural trends


1960s Coke I Like to teach the world to sing Today= Nike Just Do It, Richard Bransons Irreverent Virgin
Interbrand; The Worlds Greatest Brands.

Brand Value Corresponding to Brand Hierarchy Pyramid


Very meaningful in differentiating our Brand but very difficult to deliver consistently to our consumers

Central

Expressive

Functional

Easy to deliver and explain to consumers but also easy to imitate


Interbrand; The Worlds Greatest Brands.

Brand Value Corresponding to Brand Hierarchy Pyramid


Very meaningful in differentiating our Brand but very difficult to deliver consistently to our consumers

Central

Beliefs & Core Values

Expressive

Benefits Features & Attributes


Easy to deliver and explain to consumers but also easy to imitate
Hierarchy : Timothy D. Ennis, Ennis Associates, Inc

Functional

Brand Value: Brand Hierarchy Pyramid


The emotional beliefs and values that consumers feel are being addressed by our brand (CENTRAL) Very meaningful in differentiating our Brand but very difficult to deliver consistently to our consumers

The functional and emotional benefits that our product/services provides to the consumer (EXPRESSIVE)
Product/Service features and/or attributes that must be addressed (FUNCTIONAL)

Beliefs & Core Values

Benefits Features & Attributes


Easy to deliver and explain to consumers but also easy to imitate

Brand Value: Brand Hierarchy Pyramid


Mc Cormick: The Taste You Trust
CENTRAL VALUE
Beliefs and Core Values
I take pleasure in how the family enjoys the meals I prepare Brand I Trust / Taste You Trust Part of making food my way Makes a meal/dish an eating pleasure Makes prepared meals taste better Brings out the best in foods Let me adjust to make it my own * Can be used with any dish * Adds flavor, Spicy * For everyday use * Has a lot of products I use * Easy to find when shopping * Largest variety of spices, extracts, dry seasonings, and mixes

EXPRESSIVE

Benefits

FUNCTIONAL Features & Attributes

Brand Hierarchy Pyramid vs Product Level


Potential Product
Very meaningful in differentiating our Brand but very difficult to deliver consistently to our consumers

Augmented Product

Beliefs & Core Values

Expected Product Benefits

Generic Product
CORE BENEFIT Features & Attributes
Easy to deliver and explain to consumers but also easy to imitate

Brand Value
OKValues are EssentialBUT Are they enough? What is missing??

Brand Value

Values Need to be Harnessed & Honed The Force


Brand Builders Vision Big Idea Conviction

Brand Vision
To build successful brands while your competitors turn their brands into commodities start with a fivestep process
Kevin Clancy, Copernicus, Counter Intuitive

Brand Building

Kevin Clancy Copernicuss 5 Step Process


Transformational Strategy Model-Based Marketing Planning Obsessive Implementation

Inspirational Vision

Diagnostic Metrics

Kevin Clancy, Copernicus, Counter Intuitive

Brand Vision

Brand Vision LIFTS the Brand above the mundane and functional Appeals to Expressive and Central VALUES Process creates a bond with the consumer, and hopefully, long-term loyalty

Brand Vision

The First thing you need to do is create a marketing vision to rally your forces.

Where there is no vision, the people perish.


Proverbs 29:18

Brand Vision
Something supposedly seen by other than normal sight The ability to see something not actually visible A force or power of imagination The experience of having a revelation Something supernaturally revealed as to a prophet

Brand Vision
MUST BE: Exciting, even inspirational, to all of your stakeholders: customers and prospective customers, managers and employees, analysts, reporters everyone.

Kevin Clancy, Copernicus, Counter Intuitive

Brand Vision
MUST BE: So big, so bold and so audicious that expressing it never mind executing it has a transformational effect. You start to become what you want to be. The dream and the reality fuse.
Kevin Clancy, Copernicus, Counter Intuitive

i.e. YOU NEED A BIG HAIRY VISION

Brand Vision Checklist

Inspirational & uplifting; it moves people Exciting; it gets the blood pumping Aspirational; it is barely attainable Readable; it is clearly communicated Unique/special/different Very specific, not general Connotes superiority or domination Bold and brash; it oozes with confidence Causes people to want to invest in/work for the company or buy the companys products Transformational, revolutionary, not evolutionary

Brand Vision
Lets

review some published vision statements Assign them a college grade from 0 to 100.

Kevin Clancy, Copernicus, Counter Intuitive

Brand Vision
A beverage company We exist to create value for our shareholders on a long-term basis by building a business that enhances the companys trademarks.

Grade = 63

Kevin Clancy, Copernicus, Counter Intuitive

Brand Vision
A beverage experience company To have bigger brand awareness then Coca-Cola.

Big Hairy Audacious Goal


David Sutton, Zyman Marketing

Brand Vision
A motorcycle company Yamaha Wo Tsubusa!

Kevin Clancy, Copernicus, Counter Intuitive

Brand Vision
A motorcycle company We will crush, squash, slaughter Yamaha!

Grade = 85

Kevin Clancy, Copernicus, Counter Intuitive

Brand Vision
A technology company To eclipse IBM as the #1 technology company in the world.

Grade = 91

Kevin Clancy, Copernicus, Counter Intuitive

Brand Vision
A gasoline company We will become the dominant brand in the service station industry and beyond with the friendliest, fastest, cleanest stations everywhere one of the most admired brands on the planet.
Grade = 96

Kevin Clancy, Copernicus, Counter Intuitive

VISION to ASSET LEVERAGE

Tellis and Golder five factors and rationale as the keys to enduring brand leadership

Vision of the Mass Market

Managerial Persistence

Financial Commitment

Relentless Innovation

Asset Leverage

Gerard Tellis & Peter Golder First to Market, First to Fail? Real Causes of Enduring Market Lendership MIT Sloan Management Review, 1/1/96

Brand Building

Kevin Clancy Copernicuss 5 Step Process


Transformational Strategy Model-Based Marketing Planning Obsessive Implementation

Inspirational Vision

Diagnostic Metrics

Kevin Clancy, Copernicus, Counter Intuitive

Brand Vision
MUST BE: So big, so bold and so audicious that expressing it never mind executing it has a transformational effect. You start to become what you want to be. The dream and the reality fuse.
Kevin Clancy, Copernicus, Counter Intuitive

i.e. YOU NEED A BIG HAIRY VISION

What is a Brand?
Potential Product Kotlers Five Levels

of A Product

Augmented Product

BRAND DISTINCTION by Timothy D. Ennis


Products (Commodities)
No Difference Except Price

Expected Product

Brand Name
Well Known But Similar

Strong Brand
Brand Distinctive Perceived by the Consumer as Unique

Generic Product
CORE BENEFIT

OWN Something

POWER BRANDS

Assessing BRAND POWER


BRAND DEPTH

POWER

BRAND WEIGHT
Interbrand

POWER BRANDS

Assessing BRAND POWER

The stretch or extension that the brand has achieved in the past or is likely to achieve in the future (especially outside its original category)

Interbrand

POWER COMPANIES
The World's 10 Most Valuable Brands
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 VALUE ($billions) COCA-COLA 69.6 MICROSOFT 64.1 IBM 51.2 GE 41.3 INTEL 30.9 NOKIA 30.0 DISNEY 29.3 McDONALD'S 26.4 MARLBORO 24.2 MERCEDES 21.0

- 2002

Data: Interbrand Corp., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co / Business Week AUGUST 5, 2002

GOOD TO GREAT CASES Results T +15 yr* 1 Abbott 3.98x 2 Circuit City 18.5x 3 Fannie Mae 7.56x 4 Gillette 7.39x 5 Kimberly-Clark 3.42x 6 Kroger 4.17x 7 Nucor 5.16x 8 Philip Morris 7.06x 9 Pitney Bowes 7.16x 10 Walgreens 7.34x 11 Wells Fargo 3.99x
Data: Ratio of cumulative stock retruns relative to the general stock market Jim Collins, Good To Great

Brand Vision
HEDGEHOG Concept The Essential Strategic Difference between the Good-to-Great companies:
Founded their strategies on deep understanding

along three key dimensions Translated that understanding into a simple, crystalline concept that guided all their efforts
Jim Collins, Good To Great

i.e. YOU NEED A BIG HAIRY VISION

Brand Vision
A Hedgehog Concept: Is not a goal to be the best, not a strategy to be the best, not an intention to be the best What are you deeply Passionate About

not a plan to be the best


It is AN UNDERSTANDING of what you CAN be the best at.
What you Can be The Best in the World at What Drives Your Economic Engine

Jim Collins, Good To Great

Brand Vision
A Hedgehog Concept
Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness. Equally important they know what they cannot be best at. What are you deeply Passionate About

BHAG

What you Can be The Best in the World at

It is an understanding
Jim Collins, Good To Great

What Drives Your Economic Engine

Brand Vision
A Hedgehog Concept
Good to Great Companies know they should only do those things that they can get passionate about. They asked the right questions.
Jim Collins, Good To Great

What are you deeply Passionate About

BHAG

What you Can be The Best in the World at

What Drives Your Economic Engine

Brand Vision
BIG HAIRY VISIONS & GOALS Bad BHAGs set with bravado, What are you deeply Passionate About

Good BHAGS set with understanding What you Can


be The Best in the World at

BHAG

What Drives Your Economic Engine

Jim Collins, Good To Great

Branding
How

do we measure one brands performance vs another brand?

Branding

Brand Share of Market:


Measuring a brands percent of sales in a

market Can be measured nationally, regionally and at retailers Data captured via
Scanner data (IRI, Nielsen) Industry trends A nnual reports

Branding
Measuring

Brand Share of Market


Unit $$ Sales Sales 120 $270 5 15 15 15 3 7 Unit Share 100% 4.2% 12.5% 2.5% $$ Share 100% 5.6% 5.6% 2.6%

National Brand A Brand B Brand C

Branding
Measuring

Brand Share of Market

Brand Sales = Brand Share Category Sales

Branding

Are ALL Brands Created Equally? How Does Brand Usage Compare to Category or Competitive Usage? Are Brands Equally Strong in Different Regions? Measuring Brand Development Using Brand Share Metrics

Brand Management
As

much ART as SCIENCE As much SCIENCE as ART Achieved by combo of


Specialist talent Long term vision Analytic wizardry

What is Brand Management?

Entrepreneurs are building brands (Ben & Jerrys, Yahoo) Creating a whole new brand
Riskiest
Most lucrative

Six to Seven of Ten brands launched fail

What is Brand Management?

Majority of Brand Builders main task


take existing brand legacy adapt brands to suit the requirements of more

sophisticated consumers.

What is Brand Management?

Components of Main Brand Builders task


Embrace the increasing possibilities for communicating

brand values Acknowledge growing financial pressures on brands to make a return. Issue: Agencies are communicators..some given responsibility to modify core brand valuesbrand owners may run into difficulties with this later..

What is Brand Management?

Marketing as Brand Managements responsibility is to build long-term profitable growth for the companys brands.

What is Brand Management?

To accomplish this, marketing must:


Deliver sustained value to consumers Enhance brand equity by keeping their brands

relevant, fresh and contemporary Build consumer loyalty towards their brand

What is a Brand Management?

Brand Building Begins By


Understanding & anticipating the needs and

desires of the consumer Understanding the key attributes of the product(s)

Our Mission is to DISCOVER (rather than Invent) the brands CORE VALUES and abide by them.

What is Brand Management?


Brand

= Primitive God

If we keep its laws And pay regularly the tributes due

(mainly advertising), fortune will smile on us otherwise, disaster.

What is Brand Management?


You have to maintain and replenish a brand over time or it will die

Brand Vision and Essence

BRAND = Mindset EQUITY = Roots ESSENCE = Brands Soul VISION = Brands DNA

What is Brand Management?


Functional Excellence in Support of the Brand
Primary Source of Differentiation
Product/service innovation and communication

Firmwide Leadership in Stewarding the Brand


Primary Source of Differentiation
Customer experience, in addition to innovation and communication

Purpose of the Brand Create or reinforce product


distinctiveness

Purpose of the Brand


Provide clear set of values along which to align all enterprise activities and investments
Corporate Executive Board

What is Brand Management?


Functional Excellence in Support of the Brand
Marketers Responsibilities
Deduce customer interests from market research data Develop and refine brand strategy

Firmwide Leadership in Stewarding the Brand


Marketers Responsibilities
Generate customer insight from all points of customer contact Develop & Refine brand values, and translate into expectations for each function and role Influence customer experience across all touch-points, from communication through transaction and service Leverage brand into new, relevant industries, marketplaces or customer segments
Corporate Executive Board

Control advertising and promotion planning and execution

Develop new line extensions

What is Brand Management?


Functional Excellence in Support of the Brand
Marketers Responsibilities
Defend marketing budget Base decisions primarily on marketing judgement

Firmwide Leadership in Stewarding the Brand


Marketers Responsibilities
Champion shareholder value Base decisions on marketing judgement supported by comprehensive customer database and/or modeling of all key inputs and outputs Determine success using a dashboard of selected intermediate and bottomline measures

Determine success through intermediate measures (awareness, recall, brand equity)

Brand Architecture
Multiple, unrelated brands

Brand Architecture
Single brand or few, interrelated brands

What is Brand Management?


Functional Excellence in Support of the Brand
Locus of Brand Ownership
Brand Managers

Firmwide Leadership in Stewarding the Brand


Locus of Brand Ownership
Chief Marketing Officer

Corporate Executive Board

What is Brand Management?


Brand

Management is reliant on entire corporation and agency teams In Operationalizing the brand, the highest priority is to enlist the support of each member of the team

What is Brand Management?


Innovative Analysts Archeologists Sociologists Brand Champions Politicians General Managers Templar Knights of Equity Evangelists Brand Stewards

Strategic Brand Management

Parallel Path Strategic Growth Model (Sonis Standard Operating Procedure)

Guiding Focused Strategic Growth


Parallel Path Process
Building Brands NOT Growing Products

PATH 2: Weve got a Business to Run

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PATH 1: Strategic Plan for Long Term Explosive Growth

Guiding Focused Strategic Growth


Parallel Path Process

Interview ALL key internal players, all vendors, & buyers/brokers


#1

Review & analyze business and consumer trends

Read all research on-hand & obtained

Full Business Immersion


Path 1: Strat Plan for High Growth

Guiding Focused Strategic Growth


Parallel Path Process

#5

SET STRATEGIC PLAN

#4
#3 #2

Full Team Brainstormings


Vision >>Objectives >>Strategies

Brand Essence/Consumer Insight

#1

Full Business Immersion


Path 1: Strat Plan for High Growth

Guiding Focused Strategic Growth


Parallel Path Process

ASK & Listen

Focus on Immediate Business Issues

Ensure All Priorities & Deadlines are met

#1

Work Current Plan


Short Term: Running The Business

Guiding Focused Strategic Growth


Parallel Path Process

#5

ADJUST SHORT TERM PLAN

#4
#3 #2

Full Team Brainstormings


Strat & Tactic Successes/Failures

Facts vs Folklore

#1

Work Current Plan


Path 2: ST Running The Business

Guiding Focused Strategic Growth


Parallel Path Process

$$

#5

SET STRATEGIC PLAN

ADJUST SHORT TERM PLAN

#4
#3 #2

Full Team Brainstorm


Vision >>Objectives >>Strategies Strat & Tactic Successes/Failures

Brand Essence/Consumer Insight

Facts vs Folklore

#1

Full Business Immersion


Path 1: Strat Plan for High Growth

Work Current Plan


Path 2: ST Running The Business

Guiding Focused Strategic Growth


Parallel Path Process

$$

#5

SET STRATEGIC PLAN

ADJUST SHORT TERM PLAN

#4
#3 #2

Full Team Brainstorm


Vision >>Objectives >>Strategies

Brand Essence/Consumer Insight

#1

Full Business Immersion


Path 1: Strat Plan for High Growth

Building Brands Strat & Tactic Successes/Failures NOT Facts vs Folklore Growing Products
Work Current Plan
Path 2: ST Running The Business

Strategic Brand Management

In Class Exercises:
Positioning Case Study Product and Brand Hierarchy Exercise
Self

Strategic Brand Management


SELF POSITIONING Develop your own personal positioning statement to share with your group this week. Have your group provide you feedback this week. Define your target audience in the process: what they need to know and why? What makes you unique and why? Have in writing to turn in and share next week.

What is a Product?

Kotlers Five Levels to a Product:

Potential Product

Additional Product attributes, benefits, or related services that distinguish the product from competitors Additional product attributes, benefits, or related services that distinguish the product from competitors Attributes and Characteristics that buyers normally expect and agree to when they purchase a product

Augmented Product

Expected Product

Generic Product
CORE BENEFIT

Basic Version of the product containing only those elements absolutely necessary to function. No distinguishing features. The Fundamental Need or Want that consumers satisfy by consuming the product or service

PRODUCT LEVEL
LEVEL
BRAND Name/Positioning Potential Product

Television or Juice Drink

Augmented Product
Expected Product Generic Product

Core Benefit

Brand Value: Brand Hierarchy Pyramid


The emotional beliefs and values that consumers feel are being addressed by our brand (CENTRAL) Very meaningful in differentiating our Brand but very difficult to deliver consistently to our consumers

The functional and emotional benefits that our product/services provides to the consumer (EXPRESSIVE)
Product/Service features and/or attributes that must be addressed (FUNCTIONAL)

Beliefs & Core Values

Benefits Features & Attributes


Easy to deliver and explain to consumers but also easy to imitate

BRAND HIERARCHY
LEVEL BRAND Name/Positioning Central Beliefs and Core Values Expressive Benefits Functional Features and Attributes Television or Juice Drink

Strategic Brand Management


Did

your output change with the Brand Hierarchy vs the Product Level approach? What about the Consumer? How did you create this brand without the Consumer Insights? What about your BHV?

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