Contrasting the way KFC and JetBlue have responded to negative publicity Rob Paterson asks:
Every business is exposed to public risk today. You can guarantee that your story will be all over the web in hours. If you do not live in the web, the story will overwhelm you. So what is your plan to deal with this new reality?
I linked to this paper on wicked problems the other day and Chris Corrigan commented “there’s a lot in that paper eh?”. Which is true.
I’m experimenting with marketing less and listening more
Passion brands bring people together based on common interests and excitements. I’m particularly interested in ones created from the bottom up, as opposed to driven by producers concerned mainly with profit.
Just back from another extraordinary gathering at Medinge where the community that has produced Beyond Branding meets each summer. I was planning to keep this
Welcome to the Ourhouse Weblog. Blogging is something I’ve become increasingly interested in. Earlier this month I set up the Beyond Branding Blog which is
The competitive streak in me means I need to keep with Tony Goodson’s blog. The struggles of learning to speak “Movable Type” and thoughts on the nature of blogging.
Earlier today I was writing about passion brands and the power of community. I got a small but interesting example of this principle in action when I visited Ton Zijltra’s blog to find that he’s opened a separate blog on his planned abandonment of Microsoft.
Interesting research from Stanford suggests that exciting brands get more trusted after making mistakes and putting them right whilst more “sincere” brands start with more trust but lose it more easily. Perhaps the sensible interpretation is that second-guessing customers can be a waste of time!
Michael Hammer’s new book, The Agenda, is about the rise of customer power. But is customer-centricity really such a good model for business and society?
Thanks to Matt Tucker at Smith Associates for telling me about What Brand Are You. It strikes me that lots of companies waste money on
Over breakfast yesterday Jennifer Rice and I looked at the double-page spread in the FT from the newly merged NBC Unversal. Which seemed only to tell us how very big
Euan says: The biggest challenge facing organisations is not so much coercing people into being more innovative as getting themselves out of the way when people try to innovate. Innovation
I like Euan‘s article Does Cloud Computing Mean Stormy Weather for Managers. I’ve written before that there’s been an important shift in technological power from inside corporations to outside. Euan
Gallup’s latest survey shows the lack of engagement of workers with their jobs – a sad reflection on the failure of branding
