Marketing and its sister branding are too important to be left to marketers alone. In a corporation, it is everybody’s business to be cost-conscious as well as customer-driven. In fact, it is the purpose of brand management to transform a company into a customer-centric organization to the point where the traditional walls that separate functions become permeable.

In a customer-centric organization, management can thus be defined as a discipline of action that integrates holistically all the corporate functions to deliver systematically value to customers beyond their expectation.

Although the development of a brand strategy typically involves a limited number of executives and their aides, the successful implementation of a strategy is everybody’s responsibility. Indeed, a major source of failure in the attempt to build a great brand is the lack of consistency among all the contact-points with the customer. In such a case, the brand message makes a promise on which the organization does not fully deliver. A sure way to ensure that the customer will consistently enjoy the brand experience is to implement processes throughout the organization.