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From Platform To Tools: How The Cohesion Approach Works
The Journey To Create Efficiency; Ensure Consistency For more than 20 years, we've been honing a process that begins with a blueprint. An...
Brian Creath
Dec 16, 20233 min read


The Under-Leveraged Strategic Tool: Context Platforming
The Art of Framing Perception As a strategy firm, we are often engaged to help businesses, brands and solutions (products) become more...
Brian Creath
Sep 21, 20233 min read


The Value Of Cohesion: A Focus On Private Equity
Since 1999, Cohesion has been working with private equity firms -- directly, and through portfolio companies -- to create and enhance...
Brian Creath
Aug 1, 20232 min read


Brand Work: Turning Negative Perceptions, Positive
Prior to its transition to Mercy South, Cohesion was the brand agency for St. Anthony’s, a community health system brand in south St....
Brian Creath
May 7, 20231 min read


Mergers, Splits, and Spin-Offs: What Should You Do With The Brand?
Too often, in our experience, due diligence on the front end of merger, acquisition and spin-off deals does not include a thorough-enough...
Brian Creath
Apr 26, 20233 min read


Brand Architecture Systems: Which One Is Right For Your Organization?
Developing the right brand architecture for your organization is a critical step in building a solid marketing foundation.
Brian Creath
Feb 9, 20233 min read


Does Your Marketing Effort Suffer From Shiny New Object Syndrome?
Just about every day, marketing is presented with a new digital tool that claims to be the next great thing. Some are, but of course,...
Brian Creath
Dec 28, 20221 min read


Fractional & Interim Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Chief Brand Officer (CBO) Services: The Right Fit For You?
Is your organization too small, or under too much budget constraint to justify a full-time CMO, or CBO? Maybe you need someone on an...
Brian Creath
Dec 13, 20221 min read


Thought Leadership: Leveraging Vision To Drive Your Brand
Thought Leadership: A well-known strategic concept that still presents a major opportunity for organizations needing to establish -- or...
Brian Creath
Sep 9, 20222 min read


Brand Work: Brand Evolution
Several years ago, Missouri Baptist Medical Center had a health issue of its own: declining brand preference. Because the hospital had...
Brian Creath
Mar 8, 20221 min read


Why You Need Brand & Messaging Architecture
Like many of our clients, you may be challenged with a multitude of brands, products, subsidiaries and corporate brand initiatives. Or,...
Brian Creath
Apr 13, 20212 min read


Transformation: Art Of The Re-Brand
Categories shift. Products change. Channels disappear. Sometimes, you simply need to adjust and evolve to meet new tastes, trends and...
Brian Creath
Apr 13, 20211 min read


A Novel Idea: Say Something Worth Saying
In ways even he could not have imagined, Marshall McLuhan‘s 1960’s theory has come to pass: The Medium Is The Message. Proof is all...
Brian Creath
Apr 13, 20212 min read


Building The Brand: Design Focus vs. Strategic Focus
Communication on-the-whole (and marketing in particular) is increasingly driven by visuals and not words. This is not to diminish the...
Brian Creath
Apr 11, 20212 min read


Should You Combine Those Brands? (Or Not?)
It's a question most asked as a result of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. For others, it comes after careful analysis of changing...
Brian Creath
Apr 11, 20212 min read


Brand Work: Values As The Brand
How do you develop a brand for a drilling service company? The business of drilling--primarily in conjunction with construction...
Brian Creath
Feb 1, 20211 min read


Brand Work: Creating New Relevance
How do you make the library relevant to a generation that accesses the world through a smartphone? Simple: Show them that there’s more to...
Brian Creath
Oct 8, 20201 min read


Brand Work: Extending A Position
How do you reposition the leading commercial metric fastener master distributor? Well, when the stated business objective is to move from...
Brian Creath
Jul 7, 20201 min read


Brand Work: Positioning For A New Channel
FBL Financial Group is a $14 billion financial services organization that sought to build a new car insurance presence online. FBL hired...
Brian Creath
May 8, 20182 min read
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