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Protect and increase company value with a corporate brand and reputation strategy

22 March 2022 by Spencer Jordan Fox

Corporate brand and reputation are recognised as being where significant value is held in companies. On average, 90% of the value of a listed company is attributable to intangibles such as brand value and reputation ‘goodwill’. Yet intangible value can be volatile, sensitive to the whims of customers and stakeholders. Brands can lose their way […]

Brand and Reputation insight are core to high value Intelligence Capital

21 February 2022 by Ann

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 […]

It’s time to shift gear from tactical to strategic

11 July 2021 by Spencer Jordan Fox

After over a year of mostly tactical and reactive marketing and communications, you think you now know how the ground has shifted, how attitudes have changed, the degree to which expectations have grown as a result of Covid-19. So how do you navigate the post Covid-19 world and ensure your strategy is fit to win? […]

Could Nicola Sturgeon’s fate prove that you win on brand but lose on reputation?

23 March 2021 by Ann

We have been musing here at Tovera at the apparent fact that corporates, businesses, brands, even politicians seem to win on brand but lose on reputation. Normally we resist quite such binary statements and much prefer nuance, since that’s usually more reflective of untidy reality. But we can’t help but observe in the torrid time […]

Tovera’s Ann Binnie asks: what exactly is this “brand reputation” people are talking about?

10 August 2020 by Spencer Jordan Fox

Lately we seem to have been seeing quite a lot of reference to something called “brand reputation” in the context of potential competitive advantage or threat. This concerns us here at Tovera because it seems there might be some muddying of the waters in industry terms. And we’re always keen to gain clarity – synchronise […]

Is your Purpose fit for purpose?

18 June 2020 by Spencer Jordan Fox

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 […]

Purpose and the dangers of ignoring basic principles.

20 February 2020 by Spencer Jordan Fox

It was only two weeks’ ago that we shared our thoughts on how to define a corporate purpose (and almost four years since our first blog on the topic). Purpose has been in the news almost daily since and this, combined with a number of global brands announcing their own statements of ‘purpose’ (and in […]

Brands are relative, reputations are absolute

28 February 2018 by Spencer Jordan Fox

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 – […]

Book Review: Dave Trott, One + One = Three

22 June 2017 by Spencer Jordan Fox

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 […]

Post Law. Where morality trumps legality.

14 October 2016 by Spencer Jordan Fox

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 […]