Prophet is a consultancy specializing in creating and implementing integrated business, brand, and marketing strategies We are thought leaders dedicated to advancing the management of brands as corporate assets – applying more than 20 years of David Aaker’s thought leadership in the field, including our most recent book Brand Portfolio Strategy We have a strong track record of creating quantifiable impact for global companies Our consultants bring a unique blend of operating, management consulting, and agency experience to our clients’ challenges Founded in 1992, Prophet’s global network includes offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Hamburg, Houston, London, New York, Tokyo, and Zurich
Trang 1Brand Extensions:
Determining when and where to extend
your brand into new markets
November 17, 2005
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Trang 2What You’ll Learn From This Webcast
products and services
Trang 3Introduction to Prophet
Prophet is a consultancy specializing in creating and implementing
integrated business, brand, and marketing strategies
We are thought leaders dedicated to advancing the
management of brands as corporate assets –
applying more than 20 years of David Aaker’s
thought leadership in the field, including our most
recent book Brand Portfolio Strategy
We have a strong track record of creating
quantifiable impact for global companies
Our consultants bring a unique blend of operating,
management consulting, and agency experience to
our clients’ challenges
Founded in 1992, Prophet’s global network includes
offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Hamburg,
Houston, London, New York, Tokyo, and Zurich
Trang 4Our clients come from a variety of industries and geographies and
represent a mix of B2B and B2C companies
Introduction to Prophet – Our Client Relationships
Trang 5More than 30,000 new product introductions will be launched in the marketplace this year,
the vast majority of which will represent
extensions of existing brands…
But fewer than 25% will ever achieve annual retail sales of $7.5 million Setting the Context
Source: Information Resources Inc.
Trang 6Recent Brand Extensions
Dr Phil’s Shape Up Nutrition Bars
Maxine Magazine Hair Color
Tropicana Ice Cream
The Successes… …And the Failures
Trang 7Why do so many new products and services fail?
Trang 8Traditional Model For Driving Business Value
Strategic growth priorities
Organizational Capabilities
Market Opportunities
Most organizations look at an incomplete picture when assessing the
feasibility of brand extensions
Trang 9Brand Driven Model For Driving Profitable Growth
And many successful companies fail when entering new markets following the traditional model
Organizational Capabilities
Market Opportunities Brand
Sweet Spot
New Model
Organizational Capabilities
Market Opportunities
Brand Relevance
Traditional Model
Trang 10Case Study – Building Brand Relevance
Starwood Hotels saw an opportunity to leverage its capabilities into a
new, hip hotel franchise; however, they did not have the brand to best
exploit the opportunity
Organizational Capabilities
Market Opportunities
Brand Relevance
Starwood did have the capabilities to develop and manage first-class hospitality offerings
The W brand of hotels was created – leveraging Starwood’s capabilities and seizing the opportunity to
create a brand targeted at an under reserved segment
Starwood did not have the
right brand in their portfolio
to take advantage of the
market opportunity to
create a hip hotel chain
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Positioning a new brand to take advantage of a high-growth opportunity
in a competitive sector
Organizational Capabilities
Market Opportunities
Brand Relevance
NCR Corporation, a leader in ATMs and retail point-of-sale scanners, recognized a major growth opportunity for its data warehouse solutions business unit—Teradata
NCR had the necessary data warehousing expertise and relationships to launch
a new company
NCR wanted to increase
awareness and preference
for their data warehousing
unit by effectively branding
and positioning it to compete
with strong big brand
competitors so they created
the ‘Teradata’ brand
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After a series of mergers and acquisitions to increase their capabilities and offerings, UBS worked to align its brand portfolio with its corporate strategy and drive greater awareness of the UBS brand
Organizational Capabilities
Market Opportunities
Brand Relevance
UBS, a leading financial services firm, facing industry consolidation had expanded its operations significantly through a series of mergers and acquisitions
Furthermore despite a strong market presence, there was a lack of awareness and
familiarity in many key markets—so its brand strength did not match its
UBSs strategy of growth
through acquisition had
resulted in a complex brand
portfolio, which limited its
ability to pursue an
integrated business model of
cross-group synergies
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IBM had the brand to penetrate the technology consulting market, but did not have the required organizational capabilities
Organizational Capabilities
Market Opportunities
Brand Equity
Acquired PWC Consulting for its capabilities – to complete the package –and immediately rolled PWC into the IBM brand
Although there were several competitors, no one was able to handle full-scale technology integration like IBM believed it could
IBM had perceptual
credibility from the
market to further
penetrate the technology
consulting category
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Apple had a powerful brand and abundant capabilities to move into the emerging market of digital music
Organizational Capabilities
Market Opportunities
Brand Relevance
Apple had untapped technological and user-experience capabilities
Although there was an emerging opportunity in the digital music market, no one had made it simple or affordable enough for critical mass
Apple had established a
strong brand that stood for
creative excellence and
superior usability
Trang 15Case Study – Creating New Markets
Boeing saw an opportunity to revolutionize the way we work,
communicate, entertain ourselves and relax while mobile
Organizational Capabilities
Market Opportunities
Brand Relevance
Boeing created a separate business unit made up of many seasoned Boeing employees, which combined with the expertise of wireless internet business they
acquired, made-up the capabilities they needed
Boeing, by leveraging their capabilities and relationships, seized the
opportunity to revolutionize the way
we work, communicate, entertain ourselves, relax while mobile, and meet the needs of a previously underserved segment
Through customer insights,
Boeing learned that their
brand alone did not have
the brand equities for this
new business and
Connexion by Boeing was
born
Trang 16Organizational Capabilities
Brand Relevance
Market Opportunities
Brand Driven Model For Driving Profitable Growth
Building New Brand Relevance
Developing New
Capabilities
Creating New Markets
Our focus
for today
Trang 17Examples of Successful Brand Extensions
Brand Existing Category Association New Category
Trang 18Approach for Determining Brand-Relevant Extensions
Validate Concepts
Create Guidelines
Determine Key Associations
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Potential Themes
ON THE GO SPLURGE
Filters
Market Growth &
Attractiveness
Internal Capabilities
Competitive Landscape
Company Resonance
Customer Resonance HEALTH NUT
LOUNGE & LINGER
One way to start is by conducting a series of ideation sessions to
develop brand extension concepts
ILLUSTRATIVE
Trang 20Determine Key Associations that Define
the Brand as it Exists Today
Sample Questions
Who do you view as providing products for this occasion?
What do you think about Brand X for this occasion (strengths, weaknesses)?
What would you think if Brand X were to offer a product for this occasion?
What is important to you when selecting what to serve for this occasion?
Trang 21Develop Proxies for the Key Associations
Discovered in
Proxies
Turn each association into a continuum of attributes and benefits that
range from “close in” to “far out” relative to where customers perceive
the brand to be today
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Use associations from first round of consumer research to generate concepts for extending the brand, and test with consumers for relevance and brand fit
Validate Concepts
Team evaluates the associations revealed in step one of brand extension, prioritizes them based on pre-agreed to criteria (e.g.,
alignment with business strategy, ability to execute, resonance with target, etc.), and then develops concepts for the next wave of
Current Brand Associations
Determined in Step One
Concept: Easy & Nutritious
A company that provides healthy meal options that are high in nutritional value and require little work to prepare
Concept: Powerful Flavor
A company that uses high quality ingredients
in interesting combinations to provide flavorful main courses
Test concepts to understand customer rationale for why an idea
Comfort Food Dinner
Heat & Eat Frozen
Convenient
Family is eating nutritious
ILLUSTRATIVE
Trang 23Create Guidelines for Effective Ongoing
Complete Meal Partial Meal Single Item
Frozen Refrigerated Shelf-Stable
IMPORTANT
IMPERATIVE
High Fit
Low Fit
Protein Meal Component Temperature State
Any new product opportunity must score “high fit” on at least one of these three criteria to be considered “brand relevant”
ILLUSTRATIVE
Trang 24This is a marathon, not a race
You’ll need understanding and recognition from the executive team that brand building and successful extensions are more than one year of new advertising - they can be a multi-year transformational journey
Be sure to complete all of the steps to ensure follow through and increase the likelihood of success
Set Your Path Forward
Your brand extension goals (e.g., revenue growth, brand-building, etc.) should be clearly defined as early as possible to ensure that executives agree and
employees are on-board and can support launch efforts and ongoing brand management
There is a lot at stake
Your brand’s equities will affected based on how your brand extension fairs – if it
is a success, brand equities will be reinforced and may be expanded
Include brand relevance
The only way to ensure that the new product or service adds to your brand’s strong equity is to include the all-important 3rd component of the credibility footprint – brand relevance
Yes, it increases the time, effort, and money required, but the investment will be worthwhile if your brand extension is a success!
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Judy Hopelain Partner (415) 677-0909 x2817 jhopelain@prophet.com
Questions?
www.prophet.com