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Category Archives: Crisis Management
Culture Cues
Culture is the character of the organisation. Businesses that cultivate strong, attractive characters understand the values they need to deliver their goals. They know the behaviours their employees must demonstrate in their daily work to deliver the right customer (and … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African Business, Behaviour change, Billboards, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Crisis Management, Culture change, Internal brand, The Brand Inside
Tagged Businesses, CEO's, Colleague, Commercial, Culture, Customer, HR Department, Organisation, Suppliers
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Morbid meetings
Last week on the sunny island of Mauritius I encountered a business behaviour that brightened my day. In the boardroom of a powerful, dynastic sugar business a modern courtesy was given a traditional touch. Before the meeting began, an assistant … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Behaviour change, Brand Reputation, Crisis Management, The Brand Inside
Tagged Archaic, Bank, boardroom, Computer, iPad, Level One Managers, Mauritius, Mobile phone, Senior executives, Skype, Zoom
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Brand extension
It’s always uplifting when you encounter a well-delivered brand. Whether it’s a product that really works or a service that delights, or a corporation that does what it says it’s going to do. It’s even more impressive when you see … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African Business, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Crisis Management, Culture change, Internal brand, The Brand Inside
Tagged Boma Inn, brand, Business, Corporation, Hospitality, Humanitarian activities, Kenya Red Cross Society, Logo, Manages, Organisational culture change, Product, Swiss Higher Diploma
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The fake CEO
Have you read about the French company Laboratoires Berden and its charismatic CEO, Eric Dumonpierre? Founded in 1996, the company launched Mutorex, an anti-obesity drug. Dumonpierre rapidly became a star chief executive, winning several awards for corporate social responsibility. He … Continue reading
Posted in Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Corporate Social Responsibility, Crisis Management, Culture change, Current affairs, Global Brands, Market Research, Marketing Strategy, The Brand Inside, Uncategorized
Tagged Accounts, Asia, brands, CEO, Corporate social responsibility, Customers, Ecosystem, Employees, French company, Hybrid vehicle fleet, Industry, media, Paris, Techniques
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Broken teams
Building branded businesses takes true collaboration over time. Teamwork is hard to build and easy to lose. Years ago the management guru Tom Peters warned leaders to watch for three warning signs of a broken team: Constant firefighting in your … Continue reading
Posted in African Business, African marketing, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Crisis Management, Culture change, Direct marketing, Internal brand, Internal Communication, Market Research, Social marketing, The Brand Inside
Tagged Africa, Branded businesses, Colleagues, Companies, employee, Europe, Founder’s Syndrome, Human behaviours, Leader, Management guru, Micromanagement, Middle management, Organisations, Safaricom
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Brand Value
Kantar Millward Brown recently released the 2018 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brand rankings with surprising news. 8 of the top 10 brands are technology or tech-related, with the top five being Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Tencent respectively. … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, African Business, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Crisis Management, Culture change, Direct marketing, Internal brand, Internal Communication, Local Brands, Market Research, Marketing Strategy, The Brand Inside
Tagged Africa, Amazon, Apple, Brand Value, Businesses, Chinese brands, Coca-Cola’s, Consumer, Ecosystem, financial, Google, Interbrand’s, Market Share, Microsoft, technology, Tencent, U.S. brands, Whitman School of Management
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Segment your clients
Today I want to talk to people who describe their activities as business-to-business. People like me who think of themselves as serving clients rather than customers. When you offer a professional service, it is very important to segment your customers … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Crisis Management, Culture change, Internal brand, The Brand Inside
Tagged Advocate, Bertie Forbes, Business, Clients, Customers, Dundonian, Enterprises, Forbes Magazine, Management strategy, People, Procurement, Professional, Prospect, Suppliers
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Stress – the office bug that undermines your brand culture.
I’m delighted to welcome regular contributions to this blog from Dr.Yolande Coombes, one of the very few Rapid Transformational Therapists in Africa and a trusted colleague at The Brand Inside. I expect you’ve noticed the colds and stomach bugs that … Continue reading
Customer experience drives results.
We’re already halfway through the year and one encouraging trend in the region is the number of companies who are taking steps to improve customer experience. I wouldn’t say they are in the hundred, but very definitely in the tens. … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Crisis Management, Culture change, Internal brand, Local Brands, The Brand Inside, Uncategorized
Tagged Airport, Attracting talent, Brand promises, Companies, Cultural values, customer experience, customer service, Developing, HR processes, Inducting, Interviewing, Jet Blue, Rewarding, service business, Southwest Airlines, Talent management, Telemarketing centre
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Have banks abandoned business?
In 2014 Ernst & Young released the results of a global study they had conducted into the nature of customer experience in banks. In our region, they reported that more than half of the banking customers in Kenya cited bad … Continue reading
Posted in African Business, African ingenuity, Behaviour change, Brand Marketing, Brand Reputation, Branded behaviours, Chris Harrison Africa, Crisis Management, Culture change, Kenyan Market, Market Research, Marketing Strategy, The Brand Inside
Tagged advertising, Banks, Business, Central Bank Governor, Credit card, Customer, Empowerment, financial, global, Kenya, Mombasa Port, Organisational, Overdrafts, Relationship Manager, Risk Committee, Technologies
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