Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-136) and index. "An innovative, full-color compendium to branding's best thinking from the world's leading brand strategists and practitioners A company's brand is its most valuable asset. Wheeler takes the most seminal tools used by a wide variety of thought leaders and practitioners and makes the information understandable, visible, relevant, exportable and applicable. With her best-selling debut book, Designing Brand Identity, now in its third edition, Alina Wheeler reinvented the marketing textbook using a straightforward style to help demystify the branding process. This new offering from Wheeler, Brand Atlas, builds on this user-friendly approach to aggregate and simplify the science behind branding with a unique visual teaching method suited for time-crunched professionals. Brand Atlas follows the recent YouTube-iPhone-Pecha Kucha era trend toward fast-paced visual instruction by neglecting needless jargon and combining vivid, full-color images and easy-to-follow diagrams to break down branding principles into basic step-by-step concepts that can be immediately applied. This handy reference: Speaks to a broad range of stakeholders in the branding process--from CEOs to designers to brand managers Provides tools to integrate brand throughout the entire customer experience, build relationships based on brand, measure a brand's value, and define a brand strategy Contains essential information illustrated through the use of diagrams With diagrams designed by Joel Katz, an internationally known information designer and a global authority on the visualization of complex information, Brand Atlas is a compact, no-nonsense guide that shows how tactical innovation in the design process is crucial to building brand assets"-- "Brand Atlas is the world's first definitive compendium of diagrams and process maps about branding, marketing and design. This resource features dozens of full color diagrams that will accelerate the understanding of core concepts and help readers navigate complex theories and best practices"-- Dynamics: brand lanscape -- Intelligence: brand basics -- Drive: brand management -- Details. Brands have become the global currency of success.

Countries, corporations, com-munities, and individuals are leveraging their brands to gain a transcendent advantage in the marketplace. Positioning a brand to be irreplaceable is the new business imperative for both public and private sectors, regardless of product, service, or size. Brand Atlas synthesizes the most relevant brand topics for the big-picture, time-crunched professional who just wants to get up to speed on brand basics, brand oversight, and marketplace trends. Streamlined content, provocative diagrams, and quotes from brand visionaries and thought leaders make this valuable resource a new experience.The twenty-first-century customer has a new voice, unprecedented power, and multiple platforms to drive a new brand conversation in a fiercely competitive world. To be successful, brand builders need to stick to the basics, stay calm on the rollercoaster of relentless change, and seize every opportunity to be the brand of choice.

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Brand atlas : branding intelligence made visible