Category: Strategy
Part 5/11: Using Data to Reduce Subjectivity During an M&A
If you haven’t already, please check out the earlier pieces in this series: Part 1/11: Introducing Your Playbook for M&A Rebrand Success Part 2/11: Choosing the Right Name During an...
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...
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.”...
What Reassurance Means for Brands in the COVID-19 Era
Part of the Humanizing Brand Experience Insights Series By: Mike Maio – Associate Director of Strategy and Luke Bemis – Senior Director of Strategy No matter the brand, business,...
Humanizing your Brand: A Guidebook
Today, as many of us still sit inside our homes, waiting for what’s next, it’s turning our point of view inward. Of course, society – as a whole, matters. But society...
Part 2/11: Choosing the Right Name During M&A
If you haven’t already, please review part 1 of this series Your name strategy should reflect your business strategy During M&A, one of the first questions on people’s minds...
Part 2: Optimizing Brand Architecture for Healthcare Systems: One-size does not fit all
If you have not already, please review part 1 of this series. Part 1: Part 2: Businesses of growing healthcare systems could be damaged if their portfolios are not...
Playbook for the Health Care Brand Leader in the Covid-19 World
There is currently no playbook to guide the health care brand leader in a global pandemic. So we set out to create one. In the spirit of working shoulder to...
Part 1: Optimizing Brand Architecture for Healthcare Systems: One-size does not fit all
In this two-part series, we will give perspective and outline the following: Part 1: Part 2 (Access Here): Businesses of growing healthcare systems could be damaged if their portfolios are...
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...
Part 1 of 11: Intro to Merger & Acquisition Rebrand Series
Introducing Your 10-Step Playbook for M&A Rebrand Success A Merger and/or Acquisition (M&A) process is challenging on its own. Add a rebrand effort to the mix and you’ve got a...
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...
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....
Top 8 Brand Building Lessons from Hollywood
In the Quentin Tarantino movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Trudi Fraser asks Rick Dalton what the story is in the book he is reading. He gruffly responds that...
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....
Monigle In the News: Forbes Agency Council – Connection, Clarity, and Action
Justin Wartell Forbes Councils Member As business leaders, we’ve done it to ourselves: We’ve built a brand. Outlined a strategy. Added a mission and vision to please a loud board member. Allowed...
Disentangling culture, engagement and strategy; what do they all mean?
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...
Meet the Health Care Disruptors Coming for Your Consumers
A new series about the market disruptors that are coming for your markets and patients If you keep up with the latest health care industry news, you may have noticed...
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...
CVS HealthHUB: The Health Care Experience Consumers Are Asking For
While the business strategy makes sense, the experience and impact of the new CVS HealthHUB locations could represent its biggest contribution to the health care industry's continued transformation.
Breathing New Life into Your Brand via Bots
Implementing a chatbot can be heroically successful by providing significant value to customers; however, it could also be a tragic failure, by missing a chance to further develop your brand...
Keeping True: Netflix’s Missed Opportunity to Brand Up and Stand Up
Netflix should have stood up for its belief in freedom of artistic expression and not pulled Hasan Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” episode from Saudi Arabian accounts.
Living Your Brand: Tangible Takeaways From Purpose-Led Organizations
Marketers, it’s on you to practice what you preach. Here are some tactical steps you can take no matter where you’re at in the journey towards purpose.
Monigle Helps Position EMHS for the Future; Rebrands as Northern Light Health (press release)
After decades of growth and acquisition, Northern Light Health’s new identity reflects the transformation of both their business and industry.
Vitalant and Monigle Reimagine the Blood Donation Industry (press release)
Blood Systems, a massive national transfusion medicine organization, announced yesterday that it is changing its name and brand identity as part of a larger vision to disrupt the industry around...
Public Service Credit Union Partners with Monigle to Reveal Canvas (press release)
Public Service Credit Union’s authentic approach to financial service transcended category yet was still bound by the traditional and often misunderstood definition of a credit union. The PSCU leadership team...
PSCU to Canvas: The Story
Public Service Credit Union’s authentic approach to financial service transcended category yet was still bound by the traditional and often misunderstood definition of a credit union. The PSCU leadership team...
Health Care Needs a Disruptor–From Within
Many health care brands see the changing landscape as a threat and miss out on the extraordinary opportunities presented by industry disruption. Let’s take a look at a few of...
How Parsley Health is Disrupting Health Care Branding
Everything about Parsley Health, from its brand to its business model, challenges what we’ve come to expect from health care organizations. Blending traditional medicine with the latest wellness trends, Parsley...
“Do You Use the B Word?”: Justin Wartell On Brand
Recently our Managing Director, Justin Wartell, had the opportunity to talk brand with Nick Westergaard on the On Brand podcast. The far-ranging conversation touched on a variety of topics, from...
HCAHPS and Patient Experience: Are You Getting the Full Picture?
We’ve all had that moment where we’re tasked with triaging our brand’s reputation due to some negative customer feedback. It may come in the form of reviews, or survey data,...
Sterigenics International Rebrands as Sotera Health
Sterigenics International has rebranded as Sotera Health Its three operating companies—Nelson Labs, Nordion and Sterigenics—will continue to maintain their current names. The new parent company name signals a more integrated...
Lessons in Brand Purpose: What Does Your Brand Stand For?
I used to have a mentor whose guiding philosophy was ‘Give a shit.’ He used the phrase so frequently that part of me still wonders if the holy slogan is...
Is Your Organization Speaking With One Voice?
Health care strategy leaders share 9 tips for achieving a unified brand According to research Monigle conducted prior to the recent AAMC-GIA National Professional Development Conference—with 50 attendees in marketing,...
Empowering You to be Extraordinary: UCHealth Launches New Brand
Wouldn’t it be nice if health care services could fit into your life and schedule, not the other way around? Well, with UCHealth’s recent brand transformation, this idea is no longer...
Five Brands Crushing The Holiday Season
As the holidays near, many brands turn their attention to capturing the holiday spirit, often tugging at the heartstrings of their consumers. But who does it best? This year, the...
A Branded Way With Words: Field Notes From the Former VP of Brand Management at Thomson Reuters
Which would you rather do? Ingest enzymes and nutrients to create energy or…enjoy a meal? They’re the same thing. Here’s another one: Allow someone to apply pressure to your scapulars...
Getting the Job Done: Applying a Customer-Centric Approach to Branding
As brand has become defined by the experience it delivers, I’ve noticed a more prominent focus on understanding what makes our customers tick, and taking a consumer-centric approach to decision-making....
After 13 years, Deloitte undergoes a Brand Refresh
Deloitte Brand Refresh Yesterday was a momentous day for one of the largest professional services firms in the world as Deloitte, for the first time in thirteen years, launched a...
Northwell Health: Rebranding a Health Care Giant
Rebranding a Health Care Giant New York’s largest private employer and health system, which was created through a merger almost two decades ago, has rebranded. As of September 2015, Northshore-LIJ...
Behind the Scenes of a Rebrand: The Financial Forum Conference Live Brand Identity Makeover
How would you feel about seeing your rebrand unveiled for the first time live on stage at one of the industry’s biggest conferences (and with your COO sitting in the...
Don’t Make a Boob Out of Your Brand – Do Your Research
Virgin America poked fun at the branding world for April Fool’s Day this year by announcing their “new” logo, complete with promotional videos documenting their design journey. While this was...