Case Studies


Banking

  • Need:
    New sales approach for Professional Services division, and a simplified differentiation strategy to drive sales productivity and unify the teams’ efforts.
  • Positioning Solution:
    Move away from a single advocate (the sales rep) as the proposed value, to the differentiated offer of a Specialized Team for professional services firms and to Facilitate Connections on their behalf through the entire bank.
  • Verbal Branding Instruction:
    − Live classroom instruction
    − For sales staff and select management personnel from various divisions


Chemical
(Anti-microbial)

  • Need:
    New branding platform for internal culture considerations, and better sales productivity toward higher revenue engagements and a business rather than technical-oriented positioning.
  • Positioning Solution:
    Move away from a silver-based technology offer to Natural solutions and a Partnership approach to help client’s develop brand strategy and identify marketing priorities.
  • Verbal Branding Instruction:
    − Live classroom instruction
    − For entire company


Telecommunications

  • Need:
    New positioning strategy to reinvigorate flat sales and generate more high quality prospecting appointments, and to clarify differentiation in a commodity-oriented market.
  • Positioning Solution:
    Move away from an offer of superior service and an easy to read invoice to differentiation through a Management Platform for Executives (an online relational database reporting platform, for analytics and critical decision making data).
  • Verbal Branding Instruction:
    − Live classroom instruction and recorded Webcast
    − For approximately 250 staff: sales and general


Manufacturing
(Rigid packaging)

  • Need:
    New positioning for a traditionally cost-driven marketplace, and a strategy to attract higher level managers to a consultative process and business-level value proposition.
  • Positioning Solution:
    Move away from competing on price to an offer to Match Performance (of packaging) to Business Need, through consultation and a co-development process.
  • Verbal Branding Instruction:
    − Live classroom instruction
    − For sales and service staffs, and executive management team