Branding Governance: A Participatory Approach to the Brand Building Process

In this fascinating book, Nicholas Ind and Rune Bjerke go beyond ‘living the brand’. They have devised an integrative framework to show how brand performance can follow a steeper trajectory. The strength of this book is its well argued framework and the use of numerous practical examples to bring the application to life. It’s a delight to read such a well conceived book."
—Leslie de Chernatony, Professor of Brand Marketing, Birmingham University Business School, England
"Please add this book to your traditional business readings, you won’t regret it !As enterprises become more complex, we all need to think again about how they really work and how they can build value in people’s lives. In Branding Governance, Ind and Bjerke tackle this challenge through the creative use of philosophical insight to illuminate the emergent and ever changing world of business."
—Pierre d’Huy, International Brand Consultant, Associate Professor of Strategic Marketing, Management Institute of Paris and University of Paris IV–Sorbonne
Branding Governance challenges traditional thinking on brands. Bestselling author Nicholas Ind and cross–cultural communications expert Rune Bjerke expose the flaws in the marketing communications–led approach to brand–building, and argue instead for a highly participative, organisation–wide process that delivers both fulfilment to employees and value to customers. Their emphasis is on the importance of interaction and experience in determining brand equity. To achieve this, organisations must break down the boundaries between those inside and outside it, and fuse the different parts together.
Building a brand, for Ind and Bjerke, is the responsibility not of a select few but of everyone in the organisation. Drawing on a wide range of sources from philosophy and sociology to marketing and organisational development, they show why brand building is a fluid process that requires the ability to sense and make sense of customer behaviour while enhancing the capabilities of the organisation. The key to a participatory approach is that customers and other external audiences must join managers and employees as active participants in defining and developing the brand. For this to work, the relationship between the organisation and its customers must be one of respect and authenticity.
Branding Governance looks beyond organisational silos to offer a new and integrated approach to the process of planning, structuring, executing and measuring brand policy.

Spis treści:
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES.
INTRODUCTION.
The philosophy of the book and the concept of participation.
The participatory branding philosophy.
Introducing the assemblage model.
Conclusion.
PART I: TWO CONCEPTS OF BRAND BUILDING.
Introduction.
1 THE OUTSIDE–IN PERSPECTIVE.
Outline: 1960 onwards.
The nature of brands and branding.
Understanding customers.
The challenge of research.
Using customer knowledge to build brands.
Giving brand values meaning.
Communicating the brand.
Conclusion.
2 THE INSIDE–OUT PERSPECTIVE.
The beginnings of inside–out thinking.
Citizen employees.
The value of values.
Behavioural branding.
Connecting employees and customers.
Conclusion.
PART II: PARTICIPATORY BRANDING AND THE ASSEMBLAGE.
Introduction.
3 A PARTICIPATIVE APPROACH TO MARKETING.
From marketing to market orientation.
The principles of market orientation.
Applying market–oriented thinking.
Participatory market orientation (PMO).
Recipe for moving to PMO.
Conclusion.
4 PARTICIPATORY MARKETING.
Connecting and co–creating with customers.
Building internal engagement.
Integrated marketing.
Enhancing brand equity.
Brand equity and fi nancial b rand value.
Conclusion.
5 HUMAN RESOURCES.
The role of people in the organisation.
The right people.
Building identifi cation, internalisation and commitment.
Retention and development.
Conclusion.
6 CULTURE.
Understanding culture.
The use of narrative.
Organisational sense–making.
Participative cultures: participating and networking.
Conclusion.
7 PARTICIPATORY LEADERSHIP.
From arboresence to assemblages.
Storytelling and transformational leadership.
Symbolic acts.
Reinforcing the vision.
Conclusion.
8 EVALUATION.
The idea of branding governance.
Organising for management decision–making.
Branding governance: the assemblage branding elements.
How can brand equity and marketing efforts be measured?
How can HR drivers be measured in branding governance?
How can organisational culture be measured in branding governance?
How can leadership be measured?
Presenting the data.
Conclusion.
REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.
INDEX.

Nota biograficzna:
NICHOLAS IND is a writer and a partner in Equilibrium Consulting. Previously he ran IconMedialab’s brand consultancy arm in Sweden, had his own branding consultancy in the UK, was a Director of a design group and was an Account Director in an advertising agency. He is the author of a string of successful books including The Corporate Image, Living the Brand and the authorised biography of Terence Conran. www.nicholasind.com
RUNE BJERKE is an Associate Professor at the Oslo School of Management. Previously he was a researcher and lecturer at BI Norwegian School of Management. Rune’s PhD, from the University of Otago in New Zealand, focused on cross–cultural communications. He has published extensively in communication and marketing journals.

Okładka tylna:
"In this fascinating book, Nicholas Ind a nd Rune Bjerke go beyond ‘living the brand’. They have devised an integrative framework to show how brand performance can follow a steeper trajectory. The strength of this book is its well argued framework and the use of numerous practical examples to bring the application to life. It’s a delight to read such a well conceived book."
—Leslie de Chernatony, Professor of Brand Marketing, Birmingham University Business School, England
"Please add this book to your traditional business readings, you won’t regret it !As enterprises become more complex, we all need to think again about how they really work and how they can build value in people’s lives. In Branding Governance, Ind and Bjerke tackle this challenge through the creative use of philosophical insight to illuminate the emergent and ever changing world of business."
—Pierre d’Huy, International Brand Consultant, Associate Professor of Strategic Marketing, Management Institute of Paris and University of Paris IV–Sorbonne
Branding Governance challenges traditional thinking on brands. Bestselling author Nicholas Ind and cross–cultural communications expert Rune Bjerke expose the flaws in the marketing communications–led approach to brand–building, and argue instead for a highly participative, organisation–wide process that delivers both fulfilment to employees and value to customers. Their emphasis is on the importance of interaction and experience in determining brand equity. To achieve this, organisations must break down the boundaries between those inside and outside it, and fuse the different parts together.
Building a brand, for Ind and Bjerke, is the responsibility not of a select few but of everyone in the organisation. Drawing on a wide range of sources from philosophy and sociology to marketing and organisational development, they show why brand building is a fluid process that requires the abi