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The Infinite Asset: Managing Brands to Build New Value
Sam Hill , Chris Lederer , and Kevin Lane Keller Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1578512492 |
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Sam Hill and Chris Lederer say brand-dominated business strategies will be the true road to commercial success for at least 10 more years. But when they say it, they aren't talking about today's prevailing approach, in which brands owned by a single company are combined in the manner of the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer. That's old news, contend Hill and Lederer, marketing veterans and partners at Helios Consulting. The next level, they say, is "brand portfolios"--actively managed collections of every brand, regardless of ownership, that intersects with another. Developing and running such systems (like those that connect Intel, Microsoft, and Dell, for example) is the subject of The Infinite Asset, a sharp and practical guide to adopting their well-considered suggestions on handling brand portfolios in the same way that financial portfolios are managed. The authors look at case studies of 3M and Miller Beer, among others, which help readers visualize the relationships that tie their brands to each other and to the outside world. They also put together an eight-part "toolkit" that covers brand extensions and repositioning, as well as an organizational design for implementing brand-portfolio management. --Howard RothmanBook Description
Remember when brand management was as straightforward as promoting a single product or service? Today, brands mingle so much-McDonald's and Disney partner on promotional giveaways, Subaru markets an L.L. Bean edition of the Outback, Toys R Us and Amazon.com jointly launch an online toy store-a whole system of brands can make or break a product and a career. Once content to "mind their own brands," marketers need a radically different game plan to succeed in this complex marketplace.In The Infinite Asset, Sam Hill and Chris Lederer unveil an ingenious strategy-the Brand Portfolio Approach-that exponentially increases the value of brands by exploding them beyond the boundaries of their division or even their parent company. The authors argue that a company's brand portfolio must reflect how the target customer actually views the brand; it must encompass every brand-whether the company owns it or not-that affects the buying decision.
Based on thirty years of consulting experience and extensive research across industries, the authors introduce a breakthrough 3-D mapping tool-the brand portfolio molecule-that lets managers visualize all elements of a brand and how they interact to create new value. Compelling case studies apply the model to the brand strategies of companies including 3M, Cadillac, Miller Beer, and Yahoo!. In addition, a comprehensive set of implementation tools guide marketers in using the model to:
· identify the "lead brand" in the eyes of the customer
· find and fill product holes
· decide whether to extend, prune, or reposition a brand
· arrive at the right number of brands
· determine how and when to use a corporate brand as an umbrella
· allocate marketing funds most effectively
· trace brand value using informative metrics
· convert brand equity into shareholder value and more
The first to provide a holistic model for brand value creation and management, this book is the must-have guide to leveraging every company's infinite asset for lasting competitive advantage.
Sam Hill was Chief Marketing Officer at Booz·Allen & Hamilton; he is now a partner at Helios Consulting and co-author of Radical Marketing. Chris Lederer, once a brand manager at Lever Brothers and a Senior Associate at Booz·Allen, is also a partner at Helios.
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Useful ... written by a consultant ..........2002-01-21
An alternative look at branding.......2001-11-07
infinite asset.......2001-10-23
Yes, it is organized more as two books in one, and often the best statement of the concept is at the end, rather than the beginning of the chapter. But it is well written (has great quotations) a fast read for the complexity of thought and experience it contains. Worth the time.
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Brand Asset Management: Driving Profitable Growth Through Your Brands (The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)
Scott M. Davis Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0787963941 |
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"Most companies do a poor job of managing their brands. Scott Davis vividly illustrates well-managed and poorly managed brand programs and provides the best methodology I have seen for improving your brand asset management."
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A good read.......2006-01-26
A new concept? You're kidding me!.......2003-11-13
There is absolutely nothing new on what the author proposes. From defining the "Brand Vision" to implementing it through communications, pricing, and channel strategy, the only positive someone can take out of this book is that it summarizes everything in 250 pages.
Definitely worth reading for beginners as well as experts.......2003-09-14
Pure Spin. Recycled material at best........2003-08-27
Remember this before you buy: the author, and the firm for whom he works, use this book as nothing more than a lead-generation tool--it's called "thought leadership", a nebulous term used by company to propagate its own way of thinking. Save your money. Don't become a victim of Prophet's propoganda. Buy something with substance like Jean Noel Kapferer.
Boring and non-specific.......2002-09-14
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Protecting the Brand: A Concise Guide to Promoting, Maintaing, and Protecting a Company's Most Valuable Asset
Talcott J. Franklin Manufacturer: Barricade Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 1569802572 |
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Brand-name products represent the largest single sector of the U.S. economy, yet there is no simple format in existence to educate people about the rules of trademark.Customer Reviews:
Perfect Guide to TM Law for Lawyers, Students, & Businesses.......2004-07-28
Legal Reference Guide.......2004-02-04
An Essential Resource For Every Business.......2003-12-09
A concise, no-frills, instructional guide.......2003-11-06
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The 18 Immutable Laws of Corporate Reputation: Creating, Protecting, and Repairing Your Most Valuable Asset
Ronald J. Alsop , and Ron Alsop Manufacturer: Free Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 074323670X |
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From Enron and WorldCom to the Catholic Church and Major League Baseball, reputation crises have never been more widespread. Now Ronald J. Alsop, a veteran Wall Street Journal authority on branding and reputation management, explains the dangers -- and gives organizations the eighteen crucial laws to follow in developing and protecting their reputations.
Consider this example of a simple decision made by a low-ranking employee: When rescue workers at the site of the World Trade Center disaster sought bottled water from a nearby Starbucks outlet, they complained that an employee charged them for it. In a matter of hours, the Internet had picked up the story and Starbucks' carefully cultivated worldwide reputation was quickly besmirched.
This is just one instance among many of how the business world, ever more global and competitive, has become increasingly difficult to navigate. Studies have demonstrated the powerful impact of reputation on profits and stock prices, and yet less than half of all companies have a formal system for measuring reputation. Clearly, companies in every industry -- from Dow Chemical to Disney to DaimlerChrystler -- have much more to learn.
It is still the rare company that realizes the full value of its reputation: how corporate reputation can enhance business in good times, become a protective halo in turbulent times, and be destroyed in an instant by people at the lowest or highest levels of the corporate ladder. Mr. Alsop provides eighteen thoroughly documented lessons based on years of experience covering every aspect of corporate reputation, with a clear distillation of the complex principles at the heart of a reputation. He explains:
How to protect your reputation when the inevitable crisis hits How to cope with the many hazards in cyberspace
How to create a reputation for vision and industry leadership
How to establish a culture of ethical behavior
How to measure and monitor your ever-changing public image
How to make employees your reputation champions
How to decide when it's time to change your name
The result is a book that is important not only for business executives, consultants, and advertising, public relations, and marketing professionals but also for anyone eager to learn more about the companies they work for, buy from, and invest in.
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Good layout of a problem, but few solutions........2005-02-11
The Limits of Journalism.......2004-08-06
About time someone spoke about reputation!!!.......2004-06-09
Alsop starts with a basic, uncontestable premise: A corporation's reputation is one of its most valuable assets. This determines how much slack a cynical public will cut it when things start to go wrong. Other assets - such as those that show up on the balance sheet - are carefully measured, tracked and managed. Reputations are not. Not even by so-called excellently managed companies.
Next Alsop lays out various 'laws' to help a company manage its reputation. The first two just talk about how important it is and how important it is to measure it. Then he becomes much more interesting as he starts laying out what a company should do build and maintain a sterling reputation.
He stresses how important it is for a company to 'live' its values and ethics and why being defensive is actually offensive. These could be bromides. What gives them value are Alsop's anecdotes drawn from a lifetime of reporting on business. These well selected stories not only illustrate his points, they also show the reader how to implement his ideas in their own situation. And there are hundreds os such stories.
For example, Alsop talks about how being socially responsible can be an important component of a sterling reputation. And he relates how Timberland does it with a range of initiatives from monitoring labor practices at its contractors' overseas factories to giving its employess the opportunity to do community service on company time. And he doesn't stop there. He tells what dozens of other companies do from Johnson & Johnson to Paul Newman's food company.
These stories and examples are, by far, the best part of the book. This is where the value resides and it is not at all difficult to take each of these examples and suitably modify it to use in your situation.
An excellent book. My one quibble is a philosophical one. I think Alsop is too easy on companies like Altria - the former Phillip Morris. Does having an exemplary ethics code with lots of employee input compensate for the fact that its core product kills when used as intended? You make up your mind on that one. Alsop shows how Altria does a lot of things right in terms of global cultural sensitivity but I would simply not have used such an example.
Stategic Insight into Managing Corporate Reputation.......2004-06-03
While sticking mostly to the main highways of stategy development and avoiding the gritty back roads of tactical decision making, 18 Laws provides important insights into key principles and strategies for building, maintaining, and fixing corporate reputations. Though it lacks turn-by-turn directions and employs clichés with surprising frequency, this well-researched, well-organized and clearly-written business book is a worthwhile addition to the personal, corporate or PR agency library. C-level executives and corporate communications professionals can benefit in perusing the 18 laws in preparation for the next inevitable corporate crisis or as a strategic reference manual for use as the crisis unfolds.
A Textbook for Communications Professionals.......2004-05-03
The book is structured so well, with the best practices of companies clearly explained. The author is feisty in his assessment of reputation blunders and shortcomings, but he always turns them into instructive lessons.
Mr. Alsop vividly illustrates each law with detailed examples. I especially enjoyed learning about companies' tactics for dealing with Internet rumors, Merrill Lynch's crisis-management strategies, and the inside story of Philip Morris's name change.
There are also many rankings of companies with the best and worst reputations. And the author has written entertaining short pieces for some of the chapters about famous corporate apologies, the IBM Hall of Shame, and a corporate name change quiz.
Given the state of corporate America's reputation, this book should have a long shelf life.
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Brand Assets (The Wiley Finance Series)
Tony Tollington Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 047084423X |
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Can a brand qualify as an asset? Intangible assets are by their very nature difficult to value. Much confusion has existed over the classification of brands as assets and it has often been the case that purchased brands (brands with a firm value attached to them) have been included on balance sheets. However, those brands nurtured and developed by the company have not, despite their obvious importance to a company's trade.
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Are You Valuing Your Intellectual Assets Correctly?(Brief Article): An article from: Strategic Finance
Manufacturer: Institute of Management Accountants ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000997MI0 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Strategic Finance, published by Institute of Management Accountants on October 1, 1999. The length of the article is 610 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Brands across borders: determining factors in choosing franchising or management contracts for entering international markets.: An article from: Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly
Chekitan S. Dev , M. Krishna Erramilli , and Sanjeev Agarwal Manufacturer: Cornell University ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008G43YU Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly, published by Cornell University on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 7645 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Building a national brand: the four step cycle.(Growth, growth, growth: reaching the next level): An article from: Franchising World
Neal Aronson , and Scott Pressly Manufacturer: International Franchise Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0009GPU7S Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Franchising World, published by International Franchise Association on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 801 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Building brand assets. (brand asset management) (Marketing): An article from: Chief Executive (U.S.)
James M. Biggar , and Elinor Selame Manufacturer: Chief Executive Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00091Z1UE Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Chief Executive (U.S.), published by Chief Executive Publishing on July 1, 1992. The length of the article is 2219 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Building strong business and community relationships: the key to establishing a presence in the market: creating a strong brand identity through the power ... An article from: Franchising World
Bill McPherson Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000M2DEUY Release Date: 2006-12-18 |
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This digital document is an article from Franchising World, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1102 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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