Is AI Disrupting IBM, Or Strengthening Its Future?
There once was an upheaval at IBM; a David and Goliath moment. That was when personal computers, namely Apple, entered our landscape. The world became divided into Macs and IBM PC’s. The genericization of the ...
A Marketing Conference For The Age Of AI
Branding Strategy Insider helps marketing-oriented leaders and professionals build stronger brands and make better brand decisions. Over the years, BSI readers have brought us questions about positioning, differentiation, customer relevance, brand leadership, growth, and the ...
Why Brand Strategy And Business Strategy Must Be One Strategy
The most consequential brand decisions are often made before anyone calls them brand decisions. Leadership chooses markets, customers, products, pricing, acquisitions, distribution, and growth priorities. Marketing is then asked to develop a brand strategy around ...
Nissan’s Future Depends On Remembering Its Brand Promise
The adage that history repeats itself is no more apparent than the current state of affairs at Nissan North America. The Wall Street Journal’s interview with Christian Meunier, head of Nissan NA, is so frighteningly ...
The Four Warning Signs Of A Declining Brand
Jack Welch, renowned CEO of General Electric, used to say that your business should be #1 or #2 in your market. If not, get out. This belief was derived from the famous PIMS work begun ...
The Un-Conference: The Human Advantage In An AI World
AI can create content. It can analyze markets. It can generate ideas, optimize campaigns, personalize experiences, and increasingly act on behalf of customers. But it cannot decide what a brand should stand for. It cannot ...
PepsiCo’s New Definition Of Relevance
In 1967, the song “San Francisco” by Scott McKenzie described “a whole generation, with a new explanation.” The line still captures a central challenge for brands today. Customers continually redefine what they want from the ...
AI Is A Platform Shift, Not A Brand Advantage
The buzzword in marketing right now is AI. Well, acronym, that is. But either way, AI is all the rage. Every firm of every sort is working hard to incorporate AI into every process, every ...
AI Is Not A New Marketing Problem. It Is A New Brand Interface.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about AI is that it is new yet nothing new. AI is certainly new to marketing, and bringing all sorts of new challenges with it, although it may not be ...
Brand Positioning That Improves The Economics Of Growth
Most leaders understand positioning. They know their brand needs to stand for something clear, relevant, and defensible in the minds of the people most important to its future. That is clear. However, problems arise when ...