cultural strategy: a framework for innovation
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Cultural Strategy
a framework for cultural innovation
Douglas Holt
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Brand nirvana
Building the next great billion dollar brand
Revitalizing a once-great brand
INNOVATION
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© The Cultural Strategy Group 2010
Innovation Conventional Innovation Build a Better Mousetrap
Breakthroughs are better performance, more function, or cheaper price, driven by the commercialization of a new technology.
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When marketers do innovation
Chasing after trends, coolhunting
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What is cultural innovation?
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
2000-2010: Cultural Branding Laboratory
ACADEMIC RESEARCH (30+ cases) Budweiser Volkswagen Snapple Corona Mountain Dew Harley-Davidson ESPN Levi’s (EU) Nike Marlboro Jack Daniel’s Patagonia
STRATEGY CONSULTING (60+) Coca-Cola (global) Microsoft Mountain Dew MINI (global) Jack Daniel’s Sprite (EU) Mastercard Vitaminwater Fat Tire Ben & Jerry’s Planet Green Georgia Coffee (Japan)
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2004: cultural branding
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2010: Extend model to cultural innovation
How to map cultural blue oceans?
How to design brand concepts to take advantage?
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Red Ocean Branding
BRANDS FIGHT IT OUT WITHIN CATEGORY’S CULTURAL ORTHODOXY
Benefits trench warfare Emotion words slugfests Chasing generic trends
Clichéd ideology
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© Douglas B. Holt 2009
Fifties Cultural Orthodoxy
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Ideological Opportunity: Revival of Frontier Masculinity
© Douglas B. Holt 2009
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Source Materials
Anachronistic Hillbilly “frontier” subculture Appalachian south, most authentic frontier remaining, booze-running
Becoming Media Myth True and Fortune Magazine articles
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© Douglas B. Holt 2009
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Cultural Orthodoxy: Star Athletes’ Feats
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Americans faced huge challenges competing in the new economy
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Nike drama>zed how its ideology-‐-‐ Combative Solo Willpower—can overcome the worst discrimination.
A metaphor to motivate Americans to achieve the American dream in the new economy
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Ideology dramatized across other social discrimination
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Fifties austerity sapped Brits dreams to move past war
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Radical “go-cart” design inspired Brits that finally the time had come for “everyman” to frolic
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Cultural"Opportunity"
Historical Change
Social"Disruption"
Red Ocean Branding"
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It recognizes that delivering cultural expressions that society demands creates enormous consumer value
It acknowledges that society is always changing … disruptions challenge accepted ideologies and create demand for new culture
So, successfully responding to historical changes that matter to category consumers is what transforms the brand into a cultural leader
Cultural leaders are empathetic observers of how societal change impacts the identities of category
consumers, and then, acting as an artist, crafts new culture to envision a way forward, to help consumers anchor their identities in a changing world
A brand becomes a cultural leader when..
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Most desired Most relevant Most admired Most like me
Cut through Most talked
Perceived quality Highest benefits
The power of cultural leadership
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Brand metrics
CONSUMER IDENTIFICATION
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excels when it acts as a cultural leader
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Media obsessed
with rioting
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Politics becomes
police crackdowns
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Media filled with disturbing images of
Vietnam war
Sparks huge protests, also dominates media
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excels when it acts as a cultural leader
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Media imagined black men
from the ‘hood as the nation’s
nightmare
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Coke’s cultural leadership drives functional + emotional benefits
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Best tasting Most refreshing
Most invigorating
Resonance, Identification
Makes me happy Makes me optimistic Makes me feel good
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Avoid the pitfalls
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1. Functional benefits trench warfare
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>>Thirst Quenching! >>Exhilara'ng! >>Refreshing! >>Energizing!
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2. Duals over nice emotion words
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COKE EXCELS WHEN IT ACTS AS A CULTURAL LEADER
HILLTOP
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Media obsessed with rioting
Politics becomes police crackdowns
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Media filled with disturbing images of Vietnam war
Sparks huge protests, also dominates media
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TCCC COMPOSED SLIDE OF HILLTOP (OR SHOW FILM)
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COKE EXCELS WHEN IT ACTS AS A CULTURAL LEADER
MEAN JOE GREENE
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Media imagined black men from the ‘hood as the nation’s nightmare
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TCCC COMPOSED SLIDE OF MEAN JOE GREENE
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Coke’s Cultural Leadership drives functional + emotional benefits
Best tasting Most refreshing
Most invigorating
Resonance, Identification
Makes me happy Makes me optimistic Makes me feel good
TWO STILLS: HILLTOP AND MJG
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Theoretical Foundations
Humans rely on ideologies to anchor their identities.
Cultural icon = the most valued and important agent of ideology
Ideologies are embedded in cultural expressions = myth =story that make the ideology salient, credible, persuasive + cultural codes = conventions for telling stories
Social shifts create cultural tensions disrupt the identity value of existing ideologies, creating a demand for revised or new ideology (via myth+codes)
The performer of the ideology that responds best to social shift sparks huge cultural resonance, becomes iconic.
Icons result from ideologies that a segment of society most “needs” at a particular historical moment, expressed in the most persuasive manner
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Conventional Brand Strategy
Key Mental Associations
Functional Benefits
Emotional Benefits
+
ESSENCE or DNA
Sprinkle with Trends And Fame
Celebrities Fashion
Cool
RELEVANCE
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Leads to Strategic Black Box
Positioning Statement
Mindshare Adjectives
Archetypes
Brand Personality
Branding
Strategy is rudderless, left to agency and luck,
Cannot possibly direct valued symbolism
Vague Generic Terms
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Different Mechanics Require Different Strategy Model
Requires conceiving of the brand in society Not metaphysical abstraction
Requires conceiving the brand as a cultural expression Not as an amalgam of cognitive concepts
Requires staking leadership position re: historical change Not yanking brand out of history, consistency at all costs
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How Ben & Jerry’s Became a Cultural Icon
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“Sixties Generation” middle-class enjoying bourgeois lifestyle and material success
While trying to stay true to their Sixties/college ideology
• Humanitarian idealism, environmentalism, cultural libertarianism
Identity Project: political v consumerist juggling
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Political Shift Fuels Cultural Tension “Reagan Revolution” dramatically alters American political discourse • Capitalism over environmental and humanitarian values; greed is good
ideology; aggressive militaristic posturing
Left-of-center baby boomers became politically alienated
Creates powerful latent demand for cultural response to Reaganism
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Enter Ben & Jerry’s
Advance humanitarian-sustainable business ideology
Source material -Back-to-the-land hippie subculture -Yippie political prankster media stunts
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What’s The Doughboy Afraid of?
When Pillsbury tries to use market power to shut Ben & Jerry’s out of marketplace
Cohen responds with a provocative prank that captured the liberal baby-boomer imagination
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Ben & Jerry’s Vs. Reagan’s Cold War
Guerilla campaign and new product launch receives national coverage on all major networks
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Cherry Garcia “Euphoria Now” vs. Reagan’s War On Drugs
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Rainforest Crunch vs. Slash-and-Burn Farming in the Amazon
Leverages media wave covering rainforest activist Chico Mendes assassination in 1989
Launch reported on all major television networks and news dailies
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Grows to $237 Million Revenue
DOUGHBOY
CAMPAIGN
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Cultural Branding Shorthand
Brand advances an ideology
Expressed via myth and cultural codes
That resolves a cultural tension
Caused by a social disruption
Via source materials repurposed from subcultures, movements, and media myths
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Cultural Innovation
Innovative ideologies, expressed via myth and codes
Responding to emergent demand created by historical changes in society
Usually happens within existing categories
Not technology led. Does not require breakthrough product.
Powerful complement to better mousetraps strategies
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Application
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Map the Cultural Orthodoxy
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Cultural Orthodoxy for Craft Beer A
rtis
anal
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op
oli
tan
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Unearth the Ideological Opportunity
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Creative Rebel Discourse
BoBos aspired to do insanely great things in work that seemed like play..
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But few did. Routine boring work in stressful organizations was the norm. And they make big bucks so they can’t walk away..
They can only dream of another life. The ache of the Bobo..
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Mining Source Material
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Start a boutique organic farm
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
In pastoral towns
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Pastoral Amateur Subculture
Stubbornly independent renegades passionately pursuing avocations in beautiful rural places
Don McClung, 29” single-speed mountain bike pioneer
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Cultural Equities
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Pastoral Amateur Manifesto New Belgium is a community of pastoral amateurs with many avocations, including brewing beer. We celebrate quixotic playful exploration. Pastoral amateurs investigate their chosen domain with intensity. But this isn’t a masculine conquest. Our approach is communal, not competitive. We prefer childlike innocence to jaded professionalism. This is a playground, not a frontier.
We champion wildly non-instrumental investments of time. Pastoral amateurs will take whatever time it takes to learn what needs learning, pursue the paths of inquiry that are open, experimenting to get things right, attending to the details. We embrace brash iconoclasm.
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Results
Sales +30-45% in test markets vs. control
Fat Tire is #3 craft beer in USA, fastest growing
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
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Pregnancy Tests: Cultural Orthodoxy
Patriarchal-Scientific Medicine"
- Talked down to women as experts"- Treated womenʼs bodies as taboo"
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Subculture: 3rd Wave Feminism
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Media Myth: Pop Culture For Educated Women
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Cultural Strategy
Embrace 3rd wave’s celebration of woman’s body and sexuality
Challenge patriarchal scientific approach to women and their bodies
Take on category taboos
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
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Results
UK 55% sales increase Germany 45% USA 80%
Radio only 35%
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THANK YOU
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A Brand becomes a Cultural Leader when..
It recognizes that delivering cultural expressions that society demands creates enormous customer value
And it acknowledges that society is always changing—disruptions challenge accepted ideologies and create demand for new culture.
So, successfully responding to historical changes that matter to category consumers is what transforms the brand into a cultural leader.
Cultural leaders are empathetic observers of how societal change impacts the identities of category consumers, and then, acting as an artist, crafts new culture to envision a way forward, to help customers anchor their identities in a changing world.
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Most Desired Most Relevant Most Admired Most Like Me
Cut Through Most Talked
Perceived Quality Highest Benefits
The Power of Cultural Leadership
CONSUMER IDENTIFICATION
BRAND METRICS
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AVOID THE PITFALLS
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1. Functional Benefits Trench Warfare
Thirst Quenching!
Exhilara>ng!
Energizing! Refreshing!
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2. Duals over Nice Emotion Words.
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= Life is good. Always.
We believe in a world of rose-colored glasses, in which no problems ever need to exist if only you follow us and only think about good things.
We don’t want to end up here.
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Source Material Subculture. Media Myth. Brand Assets.
How to break out of the red ocean?
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1. EMBRACE COKE’S IDEOLOGY
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Red Ocean Competition"
Ideological Opportunity
Historical Change
Social"Disruption"
2. PAY ATTENTION TO SOCIAL DISRUPTIONS
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TO SPECIFIC HISTORICAL INSTANCES OF ACUTE INHUMANITY AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY THAT TROUBLE YOUR CUSTOMERS
BEYOND SURVEYS, TRENDS REPORTS, FOCUS GROUPS.
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
Ideological"Opportunity"
Historical Change
Social"Disruption"
Red Ocean Competition"
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BREAK OUT OF THE BENEFITS VS IMAGE TRADEOFF
WHICH PART OF BRAND HOUSE TO EMPHASIZE?
FUNCTIONAL BENEFITS
IMAGE (EMOTION WORDS)
OR
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CULTURAL LEADERSHIP DRIVES FUNCTION + EMOTION
best tasting most refreshing
most invigorating
Coke applies utopian humanitarian ideology
Resonance, Identification
Makes me happy optimistic
joyful
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THANK YOU
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OUTTAKES
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Cultural!Strategy!Group!
We need to crack Coke’s Strategic Black Box
Happiness
Refreshing
Invigorating
Cultural Leadership