Brand Management (BMG)
Students should choose ONE question from the options below.
You are expected to write a 2,500 word ANALYTICAL essay with a thorough review of academic opinion on the question chosen.
You will need to (a) Understand what the question is asking and be able to set your work in the context of an area of brand management theory (b) Demonstrate a wide knowledge of academic opinion on the topic and be able to analyse this to draw rational conclusions as to the question you have chosen.
You are expected to conduct your own research for this assignment. Brand theory covered in the lectures and seminars should be used to set your work in context but you will need to read a wide range of academic journal articles related to the question and be able to demonstrate an ability to analyse the different opinions presented.
Questions:
1. A brand has to have a ‘purpose’ underpinning its identity to survive in today’s climate. Discuss.
2. Brand image is impossible to manage in an online environment. Discuss
3. Financial brand valuation and consumer based brand equity are separate concepts and should be treated as such. Discuss.
4. Brand loyalty is an outdated concept. Discuss.
Sample Solution
A brand has to have a `purpose` underpinning its identity to survive in today`s climate. Your brand purpose is the top reason you exist beyond making money, it is at the core of your brand, acting as a filter to pass brand decisions through and as a rudder to guide your brand. This one statement is at the heart of everything your brand does it mobilizes your audience by giving them a shortcut to remembering what the brand stands for quickly and your employees helping them to work towards this shared purpose. People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it and what you do only serves to prove that.
in the end, the aim is to establish peace and security within the commonwealth. As Vittola’s conclusion: ‘the pursuit of justice for which he fights and the defence of his homeland’ is what nations should be fighting for in wars (Begby et al (2006b), Page 332). Thus, although today’s world has developed, we can see not much different from the modernist accounts on warfare and the traditionists, giving another section of the theory of the just war. Nevertheless, we can still conclude that there cannot be one definitive theory of the just war theory because of its normativity.