Analyzing BlackBerry’s Rise to Failure.
With the recent news of BlackBerry shutting down its text, data and voice functionality on its legacy devices, it begs the question of how could this happen to a brand that at one point controlled 50% of the smartphone market
How Social Commerce Is Fracturing Brand Loyalty.
As social commerce surpasses $30B in ad sales in the U.S., which is expected to double by 2025, it has paved the way for startup and up-and-coming brands to detour consumers by visually persuading them to swipe and click away
How Can M&A Expose its Most Valuable Commodity?
Invisible to the P&L balance sheet—and often overlooked during the pre- and post-M&A transaction—is the merger’s impact on branding and marketing. What will the new company be about? What will the transaction mean to its customers? How will it distance
What is energizing the power of brand collaboration?
In 2020, there was a growing trend of unlikely brand partnerships. These brand collaborations were being used to shift or elevate a brand’s perception, to prove that the brand was still relevant with a specific audience, or by opening the
Scoring a Company’s Overall Brand Health.
As the gatekeepers of marketing budgets, CEOs and CFOs rely heavily on their marketing teams to produce tangible marketing metrics that align with the goals of the business and that will justify a marketing initiative. To support this need, it
How Private Equity Can Unlock the Right Value-Creation Drivers.
To fully maximize investment value, private equity has traditionally focused on cost-cutting initiatives to drive returns. However, as access to real-time data and analytics are readily available, private equity and financial investors are now empowered by the ability