Holistic. Effective. Sustainable.
Increasing brand impact means mastering complexity, understanding connections and dependencies, and creating simple control mechanisms.
Together with you, I analyze your existing brand management system and identify opportunities to increase the efficiency, quality and impact of your brand(s), to ensure that they can contribute to your business success in the best possible way.
Elements of a Brand Management System
Brand Stategy
- Target perception, positioning and identity, including vision, mission and values
- Brand design for all experience dimensions, including seeing, hearing and interacting
- Brand architecture and naming
Communication
- Stories, including social and business ambitions
- Value propositions to stakeholder groups and individual benefits
- Proof points and success stories
Brand experience management
- Stakeholder journeys, including information and decision paths as well as all further interactions with the company and offers
- Brand touchpoints, experiences and chains of impact
Performance management
- Performance metrics and key performance indicators based on objectives
- Data and analytics, including perception and efficiency
- Dashboards / brand management information systems
Market insights
- Internal and external stakeholders, including requirements and needs
- Competitors, including performance and positioning
- Trends and developments, including society, technology, economy
Collaboration
- Roles and responsibilities (within and across teams)
- Processes and instruments, e.g. for (agency) briefing, development and approval
- Cross-functional networking, including internal teams and external partners
Technologies
- Brand portal, including assets, guidelines, templates, and best practices
- Digitization and automation of processes
- Exchange and collaboration
The optimization of the brand management system can be structured in four phases, which follow each other continuously. The process is clearly structured and can be run through at the speed you choose.
Results of the analysis and further development of the brand management system are e.g.
- Sharpened business and brand objectives as well as success metricsDefined brand identity and brand positioning
- Cultural cornerstones for brand development
- Clear brand architecture and comprehensible naming system
- Content and standards for brand management, e.g. value propositions, topics and messages, briefing documents
- Clear tasks and responsibilities for the brand management team
- Efficient structures, processes, and tools for brand management throughout the company
- Optimized partner network for strategy, design, and communication tasks
- Prioritized activities and initiatives, taking into account effort and impact
- Guidelines, data and technologies for brand management, e.g. brand portals and dashboards