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[ F r o m J Y
& A C o n s u l t i n g ]
We haven't been as regular with these
emailouts as we would have liked. So what did we do in 2002?
Most of the year was taken up with building JY&AC
contacts globally. We have new members on the team and new locations –
Stefan Engeseth in Sweden, an alliance with Lobel Consulting in Santiago
– while the team itself made great headway in 2002 with conferences, such
as the Medinge Chief Brand Officers' group that came up with the Brand
Manifesto.
CSR isn't new at JY&A Consulting. I dare say a lot of
you joined this list because of our ethical stance, long before anyone
was fussing about Enron. What is new is the way many people in the
branding profession have banded together to find solutions to the
criticism. That means new ways of valuing organizations by placing
humanity at the core, not figures. You can find a lot of the articles
relating to these topics throughout the CAP Online site at
<http://www.jyanet.com/cap/>.
And, in a few months’ time, you will be able to pick up a special issue
of the Journal of Brand Management on 'Branding Total Corporate
Responsibility', as another sign of this professional unity.
As we begin 2003, we're advancing even more ideas based
around freedom and humanity, just as we always have. Spirituality and
business – someone must be buying all those books, but no one's admitting
it. Or shorter patent terms – Canadian economist Reuven Brenner examines
the effects. Rebranding Saab – Stefan Engeseth has some great ideas. Also
there are some 2002 articles that we didn't alert you about, principally
because there weren't enough to warrant disturbing your emailbox. They're
on everything from branding automobiles to healing. It's all here at
CAP Online. – Jack Yan,
www.jackyan.com
[ D i s c u s s i o
n ] The Brand Hut
If you would like to join a branding
list for professionals, JY&AC president Jack Yan has set up an
independent list at Yahoo! Groups called the Brand Hut. There's no
JY&AC advertising at this list: it's set up strictly for the
discussion of the profession and how we may effect positive societal
change, just as we try to do at the Chief Brand Officers'
Association.
Luminaries from the branding business and academia from
around the world are there and we invite fellow professionals and
academics to check it out. The URL is
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/brandhut>
and to join, email brandhut-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
[ F e a t u r e ] Spirituality and
business: the next movement?
Spirituality and business might
seem odd bedfellows at first glance, but is that because we view the
latter as corrupt and materialistic? If we believe in the goodness that
commerce can do, we should be able to accept and promote what might be
one of its roots as the next big step in strategy. Jack Yan’s
paper, delivered in Amsterdam on January 17, is reproduced here
[ F e a t u r e ] Saab needs to go
outside the car box
Saab’s brand is too weak to extract
premium margins. Yet it remains a potent national symbol for Swedes, says
the Financial Times. Common sense and out-of-the-box thinking can
drive Saab to sell more cars, says Stefan Engeseth
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