Taking Brand Initiative: How Companies Can Align Strategy, Culture, and Identity Through Corporate Branding

Year 2008

ISBN No. 9780787998301

No.of pages 288

Subject Business and Management, Marketing and Sales

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"Taking Brand Initiative" offers a revolutionary approach to corporate branding that looks beyond the marketing value of brands company-to-customer and the HR significance of brands company-to-employee. It places the management of brands at the senior level of management as it radiates throughout the organization. In this groundbreaking book, international branding thought leaders, Mary Jo Hatch and Make Schultz explain how a company's brand is just as important to 'outsiders', politicians, suppliers, and analysts as it is to company insiders. They show how only the corporate brand can integrate all the company's staff functions and provide a vision for competition and globalization.

Table of contents

Foreword.Preface.Introduction.Part One: The Basics.1. What Is Corporate Branding?2. The Value of Brands.3. Who Are You?4. Diagnosing Your Corporate Brand.Part Two: Managing Corporate Brands.5. Managing Corporate Brands as Organizations Grow.6. The Infl uence of Employees and Their Cultures.7. Through Stakeholders' Eyes.Part Three: Pulling It All Together.8. Aligning Vision, Culture, and Images.9. Getting into Enterprise Branding: Catching the Third Wave.Glossary of Key Terms. Notes.References.The Authors.Index.