Service: Brand architecture
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Health System Rebrand: What Happened at Henry Ford Health
Hear how our teams partnered together to navigate pandemic challenges, a new partnership with Michigan State University, and socialization of major change with a range of stakeholders to build a...
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...
Your Merger & Acquisition Playbook: Five Approaches for Using Brand to Maximize Business Value
Brand can be your secret weapon throughout a merger and acquisition process—but only if you wield it right. M&A (Merger & Acquisition) situations are complicated by nature but giving brand...
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.”...
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...
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...
Part 11/11: Bringing Your Audiences Along
If you haven’t already, please check out the earlier pieces in this series. Over the course of this M&A rebrand series, we’ve covered everything from selecting a name and...
Part 10/11: Define the New Experience
If you haven’t already, please check out the earlier pieces in this series. Experience defines how consumers engage with brand. It’s how your brand elements, employees, environments, products and...
Part 9/11: Organize Your Portfolio
If you haven’t already, please check out the earlier pieces in this series. During any M&A, you will have to consider how to integrate and organize each party’s portfolio...
Part 8/11: Telling the Bigger Story
If you haven’t already, please check out the earlier pieces in this series. Throughout this series, we’ve discussed many of the challenging elements of executing an M&A rebrand. But today,...
Part 7/11: Putting Culture First During M&A
If you haven’t already, please check out the earlier pieces in this series. In today’s world, it’s impossible to separate the brand from culture. How an organization’s people act, come...
Part 6/11: Determining the Degree You Need to Signal Change
If you haven’t already, please check out the earlier pieces in this series. An M&A can mean many different things for brands, their employees, and their audiences. Sometimes, it means a fresh...
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. As the saying goes, knowledge is power. The more you know about the different audiences and organizations...
Part 4/11: Establishing the Team and Process During an M&A
If you haven’t already, please check out the earlier pieces in this series. Welcome back, M&A-rebranders. Today we’re talking teamwork: because if one thing is certain during an M&A...
Part 3/11: Navigating Close Dates During an Merger & Acquisition Rebrand
In Part 3 of our ongoing series, we take you through a key planning stage: navigating close dates and the considerations you should take in evaluation and planning of the...
Part 2/11: Choosing the Right Name During M&A
If you haven’t already, please check out the earlier pieces in this series. Your name strategy should reflect your business strategy During M&A, one of the first questions on people’s...
Part 1/11: 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...
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...
Brookwood Baptist Health
From separated to system: bringing Alabama’s largest health network to life.
Sotera Health
The sterilization and testing leader solidifies its collective strength to safeguard global health.
Azura Vascular Care
A medical giant builds a new brand for its fragmented network of vascular centers.
Go Behind the Scenes of the VCU Health Brand Launch
Launching a new brand is no easy task. But, when done right, it can be an incredibly rewarding one. For VCU Health, that meant unifying its brand and employees to...
5 Tips to Diagnose Your Ailing Health Care Brand
Many health care marketing and communication professionals recognize the value of a strong and well-functioning brand. However, in some organizations the symptoms of a “sick” brand can go unnoticed for...
Unlock the Potential of Your Health Care System Brand
Not long ago, health care system brands could set themselves apart by defining their “system” story. It was all about creating awareness of a system’s component parts, and claiming size...