[MUSIC] Recent research shows that about 65 of global companies want to execute a global strategy. The same research shows that only about 15% of them feel they're equipped to do so, so this is a huge challenge. We think about building a global strategy because of economies of scale and economies of scope. So basically, in order to reduce your costs across the world. This might be in terms of media buying, for example. But it's also about the hyper-connected and often global customer. In a business-to-business sense, you might have a customer in many locations. You might be focused on executive travelers or tourists, and you really have to have a consistent approach across the world. Now, this is really shifting from just having one meaning of the brand or the same products around the world to having an experience around the world that is also consistent. And that's where things start getting somewhat interesting because the experience itself might not be optimal in the same way In different markets. So a couple of things this video is about. One is the understanding that your optimal global strategy is not the same as a collection of optimal local strategies. And that's a real shift in the mindset of management. So you have to change the mindset of the management and it's the headquarter if you're managing the brand across the globe. You really have to adopt a mindset, change approach where you have to get the trust of the local management. You have to have the cultural competence because, of course, just from an internal perspective, nevermind the customer perspective, you have differences in the way people approach power, for example, between you and your superiors, the way groups work together. Even your time orientation is quite different. So you need to get the internal buy-in to build a global brand before you actually deliver the global brand. And that's what this MOOC is about, it's not so much about the design, but it's about the delivery from an organizational perspective. And there's a couple of examples I'd like to share. And we talk about them in other videos. The first one is Dove, and I'll be discussing that with Keith Weed, who's the global CMO of Unilever, and the other one is Disney. And first, let's talk about Dove, and I call it the Dove dos. And Dove was launched in 2003. And it was launched first based on a universal truth, if you will, a customer insight or consumer insight. And that's really the starting point to having a global brand in the first place. And that started with a statistic which was quite disappointing for a father, at least of a young daughter. And that's that only 2% of women around the world felt beautiful. And that for most women their physical appearance really lowered their self-esteem. And so this was a struggle for Dove. It was a beauty brand, they were growing as a brand. And they asked a simple question, why do we need to make our customers feel ugly in order to sell them beauty products? And it was all about that campaign for real beauty, meaning natural beauty. And we'll discuss that, I discussed that with Keith Whedon as I mentioned. But now, how do we execute on that strategy when we're organized in a very sort of loose confederate way, where we have local managers in local markets executing their strategies? Well, they created the first global brand team that Unilever had at that point. And their remit was really to push out this standardized strategy. The strategy was nonnegotiable across the world. But it had to then be implemented locally of course. And they felt they couldn't be authentic about beauty and real about beauty if they weren't authentic in local markets. So this was for the brand also a real challenge. You couldn't just use one model around the world. It had to be local models, for example, in local markets, which also came with their own costs. Now to get the team onboard, we talked about brand purpose in terms of connecting and being relevant to the customer. But if it's a brand purpose that motivates and inspires your customers, it's often also brand purpose that motivates and inspires your own people. So to rally the troops, it was a really emotional drive to get them around this concept of building this brand which was quite disruptive for the beauty industry. So that led the charge in some sense, and then they had to work on winning the trust of the local people through workshops. They had a brand team, a brand board with seven people who were representatives of the different regions around the world. They had to be really simple and clear about the message. They came up with the Dove one pager, which very clearly communicated what this brand was about. If you don't have clarity about your brand, your customer can't connect. But your people also can't deliver. So that became very, very crucial for them as well. Then they also came up with what they called Planet Dove, which was an intranet, which was to connect the people but also to get feedback from the local markets and share best practices so that it really was a collaborative effort around the world. And of course they also ran pilots in some of the smaller markets to work out the kinks that might be present. So it was a very concerted effort to build the brand. And really everything Unilever did in the past, the whole approach to branding and brand building had to change. You have to have the right structures, and the right processes in place, and the right people with the right cross-cultural competencies to drive this change effort. [MUSIC]