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London Business School

Brand Management: Aligning Business, Brand and Behaviour

University of London

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Professor Nader Tavassoli of London Business School contrasts traditional approaches to branding - where brands are a visual identity and a promise to customers - to brands as a customer experience delivered by the entire organisation. The course offers a brand workout for your own brands, as well as guest videos from leading branding professionals. 
The aim of the course is to change the conception of brands as being an organisation's visual identity (e.g., logo) and image (customers' brand associations) to an experience along "moments-that-matter" along the customer journey and, therefore, delivered by people across the entire organisation. Brands are thus not only an external promise to customers, but a means of executing business strategy via internal brand-led behaviour and culture change.

You will learn and practice the following skills:

1.	How to build brands from a broad organisational perspective 
2.	How to lead brand-led culture change with human resource practices at the core (i.e., brand as a lever and not just an outcome) 
3.	How to build brands in multi-brand companies, across cultures and geographies
4.	How to measure brand health in new ways, that is, internally in addition to externally
5.	How to value and capture returns to brands across the organisation - introducing the new concept of employee-based brand equity - and how this is different from the valuation of brands as intangible assets. 

This course allows you to develop the following aspects of yourself:

1.	Head. Gain a deeper understanding of the evolving practice of brand management, one that goes further than practiced in most organisations today
2.	Heart. Be motivated to engage in delivering your own brands – regardless of where you are in your organisation – thereby creating superior value for customers and for your organisation
3.	Hands. Translate learnings into action. As Confucius is supposed to have said: “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

Learner Career Outcomes

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Skills you will gain

Corporate Branding
Brand Marketing
Brand Management
Brand Identity

Learner Career Outcomes

26%

started a new career after completing these courses

29%

got a tangible career benefit from this course

Flexible deadlines

Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.

Shareable Certificate

Earn a Certificate upon completion

100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Beginner Level

Approx. 17 hours to complete

English

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Nader Tavassoli

Professor of Marketing

London Business School

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University of London

The University of London is a federal University which includes 17 world leading Colleges. With extensive experience in distance learning since 1858, University of London has enriched the lives of thousands of students, delivering high quality degrees across the globe. Today, University of London is a global leader in flexible study, offering degree programmes to over 45,000 students in over 190 countries, delivering world-leading research across the world. To find out more about University of London, visit www.london.ac.uk

London Business School

London Business School was founded in 1964 and joined the University of London in 1965.

London Business School is a leading global business school and is one of the few in the world to have the triple crown accreditation (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA). The School was ranked the best business school in Europe for three years in a row (2014-2016) by the Financial Times and was ranked second in the world for Business and Management Studies in 2016 by the QS Rankings. The School offers post-graduate degrees and covers seven subject areas – Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management Science and Operations, Marketing, Organisational Behaviour and Strategy and Entrepreneurship.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

3 hours to complete

Brand Purpose & Experience

Welcome to Module 1! In this module, we'll cover the following topics: Traditional notions of branding; Changing market conditions for brands; A new approach to branding. As well as the lecture videos, you will also be learning through interviews with brand practitioners such as Bethany Koby, Director of Technology Will Save us and David Kershaw, CEO of M&C Saatchi. There are optional readings to supplement your understanding, a quiz with 7 questions to test your learning and a peer review assignment based on a task connected to this module.

3 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 71 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes

Week

Week 2

3 hours to complete

Brand Design & Delivery

Welcome to Module 2! In this module, we'll cover the following topics:Brand experiences as the basis for differentiation; How to design brand experiences, as different from products and services; Pricing as a differentiating brand experience. As well as the lecture videos, you will also be learning through interviews with brand practitioner Hub van Bockel, an independent consultant and author and with Professor Bernd H. Schmitt of Columbia Business School. There are optional readings to supplement your understanding, a quiz with 6 questions to test your learning and a peer review assignment based on a task connected to this module.

3 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 98 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

9 videos

2.1 Why brand experiences matter (Part 1)11m

2.2 Why brand experiences matter (Part 2)10m

2.3 Digital brand experiences (Part 1)8m

2.4 Digital brand experiences (Part 2)6m

2.5 Designing Brand Experiences (Part 1)11m

2.6 Designing Brand Experiences (Part 2)15m

2.7 Signature Pricing10m

2.8 Interview with Huib van Bockel11m

2.9 Interview with Professor Bernd H. Schmitt (Columbia Business School)10m

1 reading

Optional Reading10m

1 practice exercise

Module 2 Quiz30m

Week

Week 3

4 hours to complete

Brand Leadership and Alignment

Welcome to Module 3! In this module, we'll cover the following topics: Aligning the strategies for business, brand and behaviour; Strategic brand portfolio alignment; Delivering global brand alignment. As well as the lecture videos, you will also be learning through interviews with practitioners, Ije Nwokorie, CEO of Wolff Olins, Helen Casey and Henk Viljoen, both of Old Mutual and Keith Weed, CMO of Unilever. There are optional readings to supplement your understanding, a quiz with 7 questions to test your learning and a peer review assignment based on a task connected to this module.

4 hours to complete

13 videos (Total 131 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

13 videos

3.1 Connecting the Dots (Part 1)6m

3.2 Connecting the Dots (Part 2)10m

3.3 From Silos to Synchrony (Part 1)10m

3.4 From Silos to Synchrony (Part 2)5m

3.5 Interview with Ije Nwokorie (CEO, Wolff Olins)13m

3.6 Aligning the 3Bs at LBS13m

3.7 Interview with Helen Casey (Head of Marketing, Old Mutual)13m

3.8 Interview with Henk Viljoen (Group Head of Internal Communications, Old Mutual)8m

3.9 Global Alignment (Part 1)6m

3.10 Global Alignment (Part 2)9m

3.11 Interview with Keith Weed (CMO, Unilever)17m

3.12 Brand Portfolio Management (Part 1)8m

3.13 Brand Portfolio Management (Part 2)5m

1 reading

Optional Extras10m

1 practice exercise

Module 3 Quiz30m

Week

Week 4

4 hours to complete

Brand Practices & Engagement

Welcome to Module 4! In this module, we'll cover the following topics:How to design human resource brand best-practices; A model for engaging employees with the brand; The ABCs of behavioural change. As well as the lecture videos, you will also be learning through interviews with practitioners Helen Edwards of Passionbrand, Richard Hytner of Saatchi & Saatchi, Tanya Truman and Nik Allebon of Lush. There are optional readings to supplement your understanding, a quiz with 5 questions to test your learning and a peer review assignment based on a task connected to this module.

4 hours to complete

15 videos (Total 129 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

15 videos

4.1 Brand Practices (Part 1)10m

4.2 Brand Practices (Part 2)3m

4.3 Brand Practices (Part 3)14m

4.4 Interview with Helen Edwards (Co-founder and director, Passionbrand) 16m

4.5 Interview with Richard Hytner (Deputy Chairman, Saatchi & Saatchi)11m

4.6: Interview with Tanya Truman (Lush)8m

4.7: Interview with Nik Allebon (Lush)9m

4.8 The Six A's of Brand Engagement (Part 1)5m

4.9 The Six A's of Brand Engagement (Part 2)10m

4.10 The Six A's of Brand Engagement (Part 3)5m

4.11 The Six A's of Brand Engagement (Part 4)5m

4.12 The ABCs of Behaviour Change (Part 1)8m

4.13 The ABCs of Behaviour Change (Part 2)6m

4.14 The ABCs of Behaviour Change (Part 3)6m

4.15 The ABCs of Behaviour Change (Part 4)4m

1 reading

Optional Reading10m

1 practice exercise

Module 4 Quiz30m

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TOP REVIEWS FROM BRAND MANAGEMENT: ALIGNING BUSINESS, BRAND AND BEHAVIOUR

by JPJul 26, 2021

I have really enjoyed learning brand management which was a very new topic to me. I have worked hard on the assessments and I am thankful for the institution for giving me the opportunity to learn.

by RAAug 24, 2019

Thanks a ton to professor Nader Tavassoli for such a great MOOC. It is really going to make a profound impact on the way we design and deliver the brand experience as a whole for the people around.

by MZJun 4, 2021

AWESOME! Not just another Brand course but actually some really refreshing and insightful aspects. I really liked the assigments forces you to reflect on the classes diffrently than just the quizes.

by SSApr 19, 2020

Professor Nader has been immensely helpful in bringing about a change in the way i viewed Brand Management. The course is well framed with lots of good examples and interviews. A wonderful experience!

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About this Course

Learner Career Outcomes

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29%

Skills you will gain

Learner Career Outcomes

26%

29%

Instructor

Nader Tavassoli

Offered by

University of London

London Business School

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Brand Purpose & Experience

Brand Design & Delivery

Brand Leadership and Alignment

Brand Practices & Engagement

Brand Metrics & Returns

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Learner Career Outcomes

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Skills you will gain

Learner Career Outcomes

26%

29%

Instructor

Nader Tavassoli

Offered by

University of London

London Business School

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Brand Purpose & Experience

Brand Design & Delivery

Brand Leadership and Alignment

Brand Practices & Engagement

Brand Metrics & Returns

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