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Transcript of Glasshouse Partnership - Transparency And Branding
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The past, present and future of transparency.�
“Infodemocracy, and what it means for your brand” �
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Remember The Good Old Days?
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What is it?
Who made it?
What’s it made from?
What does it taste like?
Where does it come from?
How can I get one more cheaply?
Who would drink a beer like this?
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1950s-70s. The Opacity System…Focused on features and benefits. A great model for an industrial economy.
• Opaque customers – marketing is based on inspired guesswork
• Opaque products – any colour you like, as long as it’s what we have in stock
• Opaque organisations – a golden age for conglomerates and aspiring monopolists
• Opaque markets – persuasion ethos. Consumers trapped by choice, location, transportation and social class
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Brand value = Opacity Premium (n) Branding: the art of making money by concealing knowledge from targeted customers
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Opacity heroes…
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So why on earth would you change all that…?
Opacity:
• Enhances economic premiums
• Protects competitive advantage
• Develops deep emotional bonds and repeat purchase
• Obscures dubious sourcing, pricing and employment practices
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So why change…?
Because Opacity:
• is anti-customer
• locks you into a single static proposition
• blindsides you to alternative value models
STOP PRESS…
Retailers start to destroy opaque brands by copying SUPERFICIAL FEATURES…
Opaque Brands concentrate and multiply risk
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(n) Branding: the art of making money by selectively sharing knowledge with self-selecting customers
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So why on earth would you change all that…?
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So why change…?
• is grounded in stories - not stakeholder needs or organisational purpose
• is still anti-customer – just selling bigger dreams
• still locks you into static propositions – only with higher cost of change
• still blinds you to alternative models – only reinforcing self-delusion….
STOP PRESS…
Consumer advocates destroy translucent brand advantage by telling MORE TRANSPARENT STORIES…
Translucent brands defuse and diffuse short-term risk at the expense of long-term risk
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“What does the future hold ?”!
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Jetbluehostage.com
Flickr.com/photos/filthywalmart
Greenpeace.org/apple
Exposeexxon.com
Complane.typepad.com
Ikeasuckz.blogspot.com
But isn’t transparency a really bad thing…?
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Only if you fight it…
You can always engage, answer criticism, respond, adapt, collaborate…
Open your doors, invite stakeholders in and start to learn…
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SOCIAL NETWORKS
PUBLIC PASSIONS
THE BROADCAST SELF
MARTINI DIALOGUE
Social Identity
Individual Identity
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REAL-TIME COMPARABILITY
INDEPENDENT ENDORSEMENT INFORMATION GLUTTONY
MARKETS-OF-ONE
Trust Trustworthiness
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CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP
ACCOUNTABLE PROCESS-CHAINS
COMPETING VALUE-WEBS
INSTITUTIONAL LISTENING
Internalise externalities
Externalise internalities
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PERFECT INFORMATION
LEAN PRODUCTION CONSUMER INFOSTREAMS
CROWD CLOUT
Individual efficiency
Collective effectiveness
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Potential for Intention Economics Intention Aggregation
Social Marketing Potential for Social Marketisation
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The Marketisation of everything
The Socialisation of everyone
The New “Social Market”
In summary: the twin forces of transparency…
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(n) Branding: the art of making money by improving decisionflow for any stakeholder
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The rules of the new social market: “Information Symmetry”
1. Products: Whatever must be known can be known
2. Markets: Whatever can be known, must be made known…
Infodemocracy
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The rules of the new social market: “Social Symmetry”
1. People: Whoever must be known, can be made known
2. Organisations: How you know matters more than who you know
Sociodemocracy
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Prediction: This Social Market will play host to two long wars:
Power: Who will be in charge of brands?
The war for primacy between demand-side intentions and supply-side resources
Control: Who will get most value from individuals’ assets?
The war for control of social information
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The Brand War
2020 ‘superbrands’ will be the best interpreters of demand-side signals, not the best spinners of supply messages…
The Identity war
2020 ‘superpeople’ will be empowered to actively manage personal and social ROI from their actions and intentions.
Who will win the wars? 2 predictions:
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The Marketisation of everything
The Socialisation of everyone
The New “Social Market”
The Liberation of the individual
The Democratisation of brands
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Wider
Assurance
History
Learn
Scepticism
Integrity
Deeper
Listen
Future
Collaboration
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10 Don’ts for your Corporate Marketing
1. Organisational Scepticism: Don’t drink the koolaid. Be sceptical of your own organisation. The rest of the world will be.
2. Keep listening: Don’t assume that what you say is what get’s heard. Understand the implications of your brand.
3. Keep learning: Don’t assume that your brand standards are good enough. Align expectations, promises and performance – constantly.
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4. Brand Integrity: Don’t imagine you can actually manage reputation. Focus on managing your conduct.
5. Go deeper: Don’t stop with brand audits and endorsements. Strive for brand assurance.
6. Go wider: Don’t stop at pleasing customers. Understand all your stakeholders’ needs and understand your value propositions to them.
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7. Brand Assurance: Don’t promise. Deliver, and prove you’ve delivered.
8. Think future: Don’t just protect license to operate. Build your ‘license to innovate’ by engaging with critical permission-brokers.
9. Think history: Don’t copy. Use your own history. Empower your hidden assets: product backstory, human expertise, supply-chain processes and corporate purpose.
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10. Stakeholder Collaboration: Don’t compete on the resources you own; compete on the resources you can connect.
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Speaker biography
Tim Kitchin, Partner
Stakeholder Strategist
Tim Kitchin is a broad-based brand communications expert with extensive experience of CSR, environmental and policy-making arenas. His passion is to help organisations develop deeper, wider and more profitable stakeholder relationships.
Tim is a founding partner of Glasshouse Partnership and an associate senior adviser to ethical thinktank AccountAbility,
He is also member of brand think-tank, the ‘Medinge Group’, responsible for the annual ‘Brands with a Conscience’ awards, was a member of the international advisory panel for the UN Environment Programme’s ‘Talk the Walk’ initiative and special editor of the journal of brand management for its first issue on CSR.
He was a co-author of ‘managing corporate reputations’ and ‘Beyond Branding’ (both Kogan Page).
Tim leads Glasshouse’s brand integrity practice.
Contact: [email protected]