brand

Brand and Reputation insight are core to high value Intelligence Capital

The MRS’s excellent paper on Intelligence Capital is something that resonates very strongly with us at Tovera. (https://www.mrs.org.uk/resources/intelligence-capital) We find that clients attracted to our proposition tend to be those who (either implicitly or explicitly) embrace the idea of intelligence capital as an asset that has an impact on business performance and value creation. They […]

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Is your Purpose fit for purpose?

Purpose comes dressed in many guises. Here at Tovera, we have always considered it central to the corporate brand. We observe that for some it seems to be a new word for what was previously known as vision and mission. For a few, it’s purely a statement of intent for use in PR or communications […]

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Brand Reputation

Brands are relative, reputations are absolute

Here at Tovera we continue to think about why corporate brand is different from corporate reputation. I am struck by how brands declare themselves in terms of providing their benefits without harm, without doing damage, as Google might say, “not being evil”. The “extracting the negative” approach. Clearly this is because the brand is – […]

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Book Review: Dave Trott, One + One = Three

By Ann Binnie, Managing Partner, Tovera Consulting. Summary view Dave Trott tells evocative yet sparely written stories, each illustrating an important point about creativity as it applies to life, art and the world of advertising. He always has told good stories, even before “storytelling” became fashionable. So it comes naturally and this book is a […]

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Post Law. Where morality trumps legality.

We’ve entered what I’m calling the post-law period, where simply following the letter of the law isn’t enough to protect corporate reputation and brand. Companies are increasingly expected to do what customers and wider stakeholders believe is morally right i.e. follow the ‘spirit of the law’ – to do what the law intended, not find […]

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