"A SWOC/T analysis can help the organization identify its critical success factors (CSFs). These are the things the organization must do or criteria it must meet in order to be successful in the eyes of its key stakeholders, especially those in its external environment"

— J. M. Bryson and F. K. Alston in Creating Your Strategic Plan — A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations

"A stakeholder is any person, group, or entity that can place a claim on the organization’s attention, resources, or output or that is affected by that output. The key to success for public and nonprofit organisations is the ability to address the needs and desires of crucial stakeholders—according to those stakeholders’ criteria"

— J. M. Bryson and F. K. Alston in Creating your Strategic Plan — A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations

Discover our new portfolio online!
http://www.inextremis.be/portfolio
Page in extremis establishes brands and strengthens the reputation of leading corporations, institutions and associations.
Page in extremis sits in Brussels. The multidisciplinary...

Discover our new portfolio online!

http://www.inextremis.be/portfolio

Page in extremis establishes brands and strengthens the reputation of leading corporations, institutions and associations.

Page in extremis sits in Brussels. The multidisciplinary team helps you define and translate the principal messages of your organisation into brilliant visual systems.

The communication agency, Page in extremis turns brands into valuable assets and ensures the alignment with their strategic objectives.

The communication agency proposes four integrated services:


1) The definition of a “brand strategy”.
2) The creation or refreshment of your visual identity supported by easy to use guidelines.
3) The improvement of your “Communication Programme” by incorporating integrated communication campaigns, unforgettable events, amazing publications and innovative digital solutions.
4) The creative development of innovative communication tools (print and digital).

Interested in partnering with Page in extremis?

Based in Brussels, Page in extremis makes associations brands conversational, helps organisations manage their communities, engage with their stakeholders and convey their messages.

For more information:

http://www.inextremis.be/portfolio

http://www.inextremis.be/

http://www.inextremisbranding.be

http://www.inextremisdigital.be

"Successful brands are like famous personalities — they have ways of doing things that we instantly recognise and expect. They have a distinctive look, feel and tone of voice that we associate with them. If you consider your brand as a living personality, you will find it easier to bring it to life and have meaning"

— P. Hitchens and J. Hitchens in Successful Brand Management

"The listening environment is complex and diverse. There are a variety of digital forums within which conversation occur and there is a great deal of variety in terms of the conversations taking place… Conversations are also taking place offline, in naturally occurring environments, in the brick and mortar world of sights, sounds, and smells. Given this complexity, it is unlikely that simple, one-dimensional approaches to listening will provide sufficient breadth or depth of customer insights."

— G. Balla in Collaboration and Co-Creation — New Platforms for Marketing and Innovation

"Not having a cohesive design strategy means creating reactive, not proactive, work— hastily developed designs that meet only the immediate needs of the client, with no thought of the future.
This results in a lack of a unified visual brand presence for the client over time."

— T. L. Stone in Concept Development, Managing the Design Process

"All innovation carry some degree of uncertainty for an individual, who is typically unsure of the new idea's functioning and thus seeks social reinforcement from others of his or her attitude toward the innovation. The individual wants to know wether his or her  thinking is on the right track in the opinion of peers"

— E. M. Rogers in Diffusion of Innovations (Fifth Edition)

"Frame feedback—positive or corrective—as an ongoing process, not an occasional and arbitrary comment or correction. Make sure everyone around you knows that giving and receiving feedback is an ongoing goal with the intention of improving the entire organization"

— Giving Effective Feedback in Harvard Business Review Press

"There is a difference, at each touch point, between someone who is simply doing a job and someone who delivers the brand"

— L. Sartain and M. Schumann in Brand From The Inside — Eight Essentials to Essentially Connect Your Employee to Your Business 

"Brand positioning plays a key role in the building and managing of a strong brand by specifying how the brand is related to consumer’s goals. It can be thought of as answering three questions: (1) Who should be targeted for brand use? (2) What goal does the brand allow the target to achieve? (3) Why should the brand be chosen over other brands that achieve the same goal?"

— A. M. Tybout and B. Sternthal in Brand Positioning (Kellogg on Branding)

How to maintain consistency in your visual communication?
Consistency creates visibility and recognition. When you have defined your visual identity, it is essential to apply it consistently to all the touch point between your Brand and your various...

How to maintain consistency in your visual communication?

Consistency creates visibility and recognition. When you have defined your visual identity, it is essential to apply it consistently to all the touch point between your Brand and your various stakeholders.
Some hints can help you succeed in this task —For better performance, consider them as a whole method.

Succinctly, here are described the seven steps process for maintaining better consistency for your Brand:

Step 1: Alignment
Coherence in your visual identity is easier to manage when you have an internal and external alignment. Internally, your visual identity needs to be founded on your Brand values and your behaviours.
Externally, the alignment with your core idea, your positioning and the experience of your stakeholders must be exposed.

Step 2: Set guidelines
When a strong brand is aligned, a guiding set of rules is easier to define. The rules should not necessarily be unvarying: in our current world, they can be flexible or, even better, dynamic. However, the most significant concern is that the rules should be well determined and applied rigorously. You need to develop and share a central document that gathers all rules to use. This handbook is called a Brand guide.

Step 3: Name a Brand Guardian
A Brand guide is not sufficient. You need someone in your organisation that checks the consistency of every branded touch points before to diffuse them. This person is called a Brand Guardian.  Often, a member of the Communication Department plays this crucial role.

Step 4: Training
Ideally, the Brand Guardian must be helped in his task by the staff of your organisation. To arrive at this level of engagement, you need to communicate the fundamental of your Brand to every colleague. Then you need to explain your Brand rules and train them on how to use it. Therefore, you can use them all as Brand Ambassadors.

Step 5: Communicate
Communication is central to the process. You need to communicate the most significant pillars of your Brand to your main external stakeholders. This will help your partners to understand better the way you would like to be seen by them. Besides, why not, they can also become your Brand Ambassadors?

Step 6: Repeat
Don’t be afraid to replicate your main messages, images and visuals. Studies show that a person needs to be faced with a Brand at least six times before being able to memorise it. Internally, this could appear unpleasant but you can avoid the motionless feeling by developing flexibility in your visual expression.

Step 7: Refresh
Nowadays, the world is moving faster than ever. New technologies bring new ways to think and express your Brand. You need to update your visual identity on a regular basis. If you update the general look and feel of your brand at least each year, your Brand will not appear old fashioned and you will never be obliged to make radical modifications. We do not speak about your logo and the main pillars of your communication but the general visual environment of your brand.
Think about it: the institutional brand of the Grand Father does not connect anymore with anyone, except for the supporters of a bygone era.

Page in extremis turns brands into valuable assets and ensures the alignment with their strategic objectives.

The communication agency proposes four integrated communication services:


1) The definition of a “brand strategy” aligned with the development strategy of your organisation.

2) The creation or refreshment of your visual identity aligned with a new brand strategy and supported by easy to use guidelines developed in a clear and concise Brand guide.

3) The improvement of your “Communication Programme” by incorporating integrated communication campaigns, unforgettable events, excellent publications and innovative digital solutions.

4) The creative development and production of innovative printed and digital communication projects.

Interested in partnering with Page in extremis?

Based in Brussels, the communication agency makes associations brands conversational, helps organisations manage their communities, engage with their stakeholders and convey their messages.

For more information:
http://www.inextremis.be
http://www.inextremisbranding.be
http://www.inextremisdigital.be

"We argued that the heart of the diffusion process is the modelling and imitation by potential adopters of their near peers’ experiences with the new idea. In deciding whether or not to adopt an innovation, individuals depend mainly on the communicated experience of others much like themselves who have already adopted a new idea. These subjective avaluations of an innnovation flow mainly through interpersonal networks. So we must understand the nature of networks in order to understand the diffusion process"

— E. M. Rogers in Diffusion of Innovations

"The whole notion of a customer’s journey with a brand has changed. And focus on the journey a customer takes across the fast multiplying brand touch points has become integral to helping drive and understanding of “brand-ness” into the organisation and beyond"

— A. P. Adamson in Brand Digital — Simple ways top brands succeed in the digital world

"How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. The same goes for branding. Growing a (…) Brand is a process"

— J. Miller in Sticky Branding — 12.5 Principles to Stand Out, Attract Customers & Grow an Incredible Brand

"Internet TVs do not require any special viewing glasses, but they do require the consumer to be “digitally competent”"

— G. A. Moore in Crossing The Chasm — Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers