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MODULE 8 Questions:
I) Leadership:
1. Identify the current stage of your brand in terms of working towards becoming a brand nation.
2. Identify 3 leadership strategies that enable your brand to build towards becoming a brand nation.
Stop basing business strategy on the economy and focus on your brand vision
3. Identify 3 management strategies that enable your brand to build towards becoming a brand nation.
Focus the Board on purpose, values and mission in strategy and planning decisions
Weave social media into all departments including marketing, customer care, ecommerce,
search, HR, and internal operations
Create a communication culture where employees have permission to be human and fallible
Create an agile leadership and marketing team adaptive to new social technology
4. List three immediate benefits of using these strategies to take an industry leadership position?
5. List three dangers to your brand if it does not assume a leadership position within the social
business marketplace?
6. Describe where you see your brand in five years as a result of this leadership role.
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II) Vision:
1. Describe your hope for the future of your brand and the positive social impact it can have as an
expression of its core values.
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a. Brand/customer partnership
b. Contributory Consumption
c. Competitor Collaboration
3. Identify the 3 social business trends most critical to the future success of your brand.
Unified, seamless brand voice/experience across varied media, devices and content
Personalization of news/content/marketing
4. Identify the 3 social technology trends most critical to the future success of your brand.
Micro-economy/financing platforms
Social TV
5. Describe what the fulfillment of your brand’s vision would mean to you personally (emotionally,
financially, professionally).
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6. Without censoring yourself, write the story of your brand that will inform your leadership,
employees, and marketing in the future.
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