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How CMOs Build Brands by Collaborating Across Silos

Harvard Business Review

As a facilitator, the CMO group at Nestle operates centers of excellence around topics such as the Hispanic market, mom & kids, and Walmart which are shared across silos. Get a common planning and information system. Both are the basis for communication and both are nonthreatening in that they do not impose the same strategy on all.

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Make Your Competition Irrelevant

Harvard Business Review

The same can be said of Apple's iPod, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Seibel Systems, SalesForce.com, Dreyer's Slow Churned Ice Cream, Whole Foods Market, Zappos.com, Schwab's OneSource, Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, Westin's Heavenly Bed, and hundreds of other brands. The payoff of operating with no or little competition is, of course, huge.

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