Category: Strategy
Fireside chat: Piedmont Healthcare shares branding lessons from outside of healthcare
Recently, at the Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit our Chief Marketing Officer, Gabriel Cohen, hosted a fireside chat with Kate Metzinger, Executive Director of Brand Activation at Piedmont Healthcare....
The power of humanizing brand tracking research
For some, brand tracking has fallen out of fashion. In a time where marketeers are inundated with data and performance metrics, the thought of another report and the investment required...
An independent agency goes global: Monigle joins the Worldwide Partners network
Press Release – DENVER – March 23, 2023 Monigle Associates has joined up with a global network of 70+ independent agencies, strengthening its offerings and ability to deliver impact worldwide.
How Financial Services brands can apply lessons learned from previous crises to meet today’s challenges
The financial industry is no stranger to crisis. From the 2008 financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic, financial brands have faced significant challenges that have tested their resilience and ability...
Brand architecture series introduction: 10 key steps to move from managing brand identity to creating experiences
A business’s portfolio is rarely a static set of products or fixed list of services. In fact, when it comes to a company’s roster of offerings, the only consistent factor...
Monigle in the news: Forbes’ 15 trends that will impact organizations in 2023
To ensure agencies will be agile enough to pivot and evolve as needed, proactively identifying the trends that promise to have a major effect on the industry this year is...
The Science and Art of Naming
Everyone has an opinion on a name. As a person who can write and speak, they feel qualified to come up with names. But the name for your company and...
What it really takes for financial institutions to go digital
In case you missed it, we recently released our Humanizing Customer Experience Vol 2 report, in partnership with American Banker. Learn about the key national trends, attitudes and behaviors impacting...
Living at the Intersection of Brand Purpose and Culture
The notion of brands strengthening themselves by embodying a core purpose isn’t exactly new. For years now, brands have been starting with their “why” thanks to Simon Sinek. Brands are...
For financial institutions, things just got (more) personal
We recently released our Humanizing Customer Experience Vol 2 report, the following article is derived from one of the key chapters of the report. Personalization as an experiential imperative is...
Creating A New Brand Name
New brand name development is one of the most challenging processes in the branding business. While not everyone has an opinion about strategy, brand architecture, or logo design, everyone has an opinion about names—those they...
From competitors to collaborators, how financial institutions can adapt to a rapidly evolving landscape
In case you missed it, we recently released our Humanizing Customer Experience Vol 2 report, in partnership with American Banker. Learn about the key national trends, attitudes and behaviors impacting...
Exploring the future of Brand Architecture
The traditional definition of brand architecture is structured, technical, and all about keeping things as buttoned-up as possible. But as brands have evolved, so have the questions, consumer needs, and...
Monigle in the news: Touch Point Podcast – Who really is our healthcare audience?
Our Managing Principal at Monigle, Justin Wartell, joined the Touch Point Podcast, a podcast dedicated to discussions on digital marketing and online patient engagement strategies for hospitals, health systems, and...
Are we building brands, or are we building cultures?
The evolution of the term “brand” has been gradual. Originally a way of staking claim to your property or creations (think livestock and paintings) – for years, branding was perceived as simply a name or a visual identity. And...
Henry Ford Health Marketing and Experience lead shares takeaways from rebrand experience
Heather Geisler didn’t start off in healthcare. Most of her career has been spent considering storytelling through different lenses: politics, journalism, and hospitality. In each of these roles, she worked...
Renaming Your Brand Stress-free
Renaming your brand is one of the toughest, most complex and important things that you can do. You can bet that you will experience more passion and opinion applied to choosing your new name than most decisions your organization makes....
Your Brand Scorecard – Part 1: A two-dimensional concept
Brand managers often use primary research to track and assess brand performance. While this approach is good for understanding the external dimensions of brand performance, it overlooks an equally important...
Monigle in the news: Advisory Board shares takeaways from Monigle’s Humanizing Brand Experience report
Advisory Board, a leading healthcare publication that identifies the top challenges that leaders are facing and provides insight to support them, recently featured Monigle in an article. The article highlights...
The Top 5 Most Essential Takeaways from our M&A Rebrand Playbook
In case you missed it, you can always go back and review every chapter of our full M&A rebrand playbook here. Over the past year, we dove into the...
Monigle in the news: Life Annuity Specialist
Monigle’s Executive Director of Strategy, Brian Elkins, was featured in a recent Life Annuity Specialist article about rebranding flops.
Brand Architecture Problems: Four Indicators
Sometimes, brand architecture problems are easy to spot. You may know them as “logo soup” or “clean up jobs” – when the visualization of a brand and its assets is...
Convergence is the key to cultural effectiveness
It is widely accepted that an organization’s culture is comprised of shared values, underlying perceptions, feelings and behaviors as well as observational artifacts – such as dress code, symbols and stories....
Disentangling Culture, Engagement and Strategy
Who we are. What we stand for. Our vision. Our purpose. Commitment to the cause. Employee alignment. Measuring impact. If you’re in the corporate world, these phrases are pervasive. After...
Forces of Change: Humanizing the Customer Experience
In this series, we will delve into Humanizing the Customer Experience in the Financial Services sector, including key trends and questions you should be asking in consideration of how well...
Bringing Brand to Life in Physical Spaces
Moving beyond the typical into the physical In order to grow and drive your business successfully, you have to do more than just elevate a single touchpoint or speak to...
10 Tips to Nail Your Rebrand
Rebrands favor the bold. Especially when a company changes strategic course, undergoes a major episodic event such as a Merger & Acquisition, or doubles-down on their key tenets. We say...
For Financial Institutions, Keeping Pace Means Getting Personal
Brian Elkins is the Executive Director of Strategy and the head of our Financial Services practice at Monigle Okay, so you’ve met your customers’ minimum basic needs. Security? Check. Trust?...
The Pivotal Role of Brand in the Post-COVID Office
The office is changing The Covid-19 pandemic completely transformed the way we work. For people in non-essential fields, the office—once a cornerstone of their Monday to Friday routines—effectively disappeared. Lockdowns...
3 Strategies for Building Consumer Trust (And What to Do if You’ve Lost It)
“Trust us.” It’s often the unspoken basis and desired outcome of every brand’s advertising and messaging across many industries. When you ask people for their money, their time, their engagement...
Embarking on a New Brand Name…and Navigating the Journey Successfully: Part 2
If you haven’t already, please check out Part 1 of this two-part series. Your company is ready to change its name. Now what? Now comes what we at Monigle...
Brand Architecture: More Than Just a Clean-Up Job
We hear it all the time – “can you guys help us clean up our brand architecture?” or “our logo system is a mess; we need some brand architecture help.”...
A Pragmatic Approach Toward Brand Scenario Planning
How to evaluate scenario planning for your brand as we emerge from this elongated crisis In this two-part blog series, we will delve into the topic of brand scenario...
Embarking on a New Brand Name…and Navigating the Journey Successfully: Part 1
“Level with us…do we really need to change our company’s name?” At Monigle, it’s a question we’re asked all of the time, and for good reason. Nothing strikes fear into...
Breaking Through the Naming Noise
Three Simple Steps to Inform Health Care Nomenclature Strategy For nearly 50-years Monigle has worked with a variety of leading health care brands across the country. Almost every engagement...
Monigle in the News: 14 Unique Ways to Learn About a Client’s Audience
Monigle Managing Principal, Justin Wartell, was featured in the recent Forbes article 14 Unique Ways For Agencies To Learn About A Client’s Audience. Understanding the makeup of a client’s audience...
Monigle in the News: 13 Ways for a Company to Create and Cultivate a Strong Brand Voice
Our Managing Principal at Monigle, Justin Wartell, was featured in the Forbes article 13 Ways for a Company to Create and Cultivate a Strong Brand Voice. Let’s think about your...
Monigle in the News: For Johns Hopkins Medicine, Leading Starts with Listening
Based on the most recent Humanizing Brand Experience Vol 4 report, Johns Hopkins Medicine leads the way in humanizing health care brand experiences, ranking first out of more than 200...
Monigle Shortlisted for 13 North American Transform Awards
We’re excited to announce that we have been shortlisted for 13 North American Transform Awards for our work with Microsoft, Quest Diagnostics, Calyx, Stratus Unlimited, Centrilogic, Amwins, and Luminous Health!...