When I first stepped into the Daimler headquarters in Stuttgart as an intern, it truly felt as though I had entered a foreign country, replete with its own language, customs, and unspoken rules. Since that initial experience, I’ve navigated through other corporate giants like Bayer, Fresenius, and Roche. Each was unique in its own right,… Read More »
Currently Domino’s Pizza is one of the hottest (!) brands in the food business. It is financially outperforming tech companies such as Amazon and Facebook, is venturing into the robot business and has recently been applauded for crafting a “brand icon” similar to Apple or Google. And that all after going through some really tough times… Read More »
Facebook Live is a new powerful social network feature that was gradually introduced only a few months ago and it is beginning to grow in relevance. In part this is due to Facebook’s preference and prioritization of live content in its algorithms that determine who gets to see what and when. But secondly this is… Read More »
Dr. Spiro Kiousis, associate dean for the College of Journalism and Communications, has reviewed the PR strategies of both US presidential candidates over here on the IPR Blog, looking at public relations efforts along the lines of media relations, donor relations, volunteer relations, and social media engagement. He identifies a clear advantage for Hillary Clinton in both… Read More »
The Edelman Trust Barometer is one of the most important tool to detect key trends for public relations and communications in general. Just released, the 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer revealed that trust is in crisis. The general population’s trust in four key institutions – business, government, NGOs, and media – has declined considerably, a phenomenon not… Read More »
Okay – summer vacation is over and we better get back to work! And I’ll start right a way with a note on the best piece of writing on I have read this summer – one that certainly provides some inspiration for the upcoming textbook updates of “Introduction to Corporate Communication”. The Harvard Business Review in… Read More »
When shopping in a local supermarket here in Vientiane / Laos, I noticed that retailers would blatantly alter expiry dates on food packages in order to still be able to sell them. Another way of dealing with a (too) short shelf-live over here is to use the stickers with the product detail translations to simply cover… Read More »
This week I conducted an eye-opening analysis for a client organization that had asked me to assess its past corporate communication activities. It is a government institution that proves many prejudices that people have about such organizations well… right (but we’re going to change this over the next three months). There are plenty of statistical measures… Read More »