a:70:{s:15:"comment_post_ID";s:4:"2820";s:14:"comment_author";s:8:"R. Hanke";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:24:"r.hanke@id-institute.com";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:20:"www.id-institute.com";s:15:"comment_content";s:1078:"@ Mr. Sundheim >...While I do agree that brand promises need to be fully integrated and infused into everything a company thinks and does, I do not agree that business leaders should drive the brand strategy and management... < i totally agree with that. As Designer working for international cooperations in the field of branding & consumer insights,  i learned the hard way, that it's important that the top executive levels understands and supports what's going on – and it's one of the most challenging issues to make underlying processes tangible to decisionmakers. So, i don't think to fix the role into >...While brand strategy and management should be the rudder that steers the ship, I feel Marketers are best equipped to lead it as they have the best pulse on the consumer…not the business leaders.< is a solution at all. It depends on the situation, the structure of the company, the capability to think strategic and problem solving, consumer orientated (a brand happens in the head of consumers) and the ability to involve (internal & external decision makers).";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ip";s:12:"85.183.54.27";s:10:"user_agent";s:127:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8; de-de) AppleWebKit/533.21.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.5 Safari/533.21.1";s:8:"referrer";s:55:"http://www.pullinc.com/the-rudder-that-steers-the-ship/";s:4:"blog";s:22:"http://www.pullinc.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:55:"http://www.pullinc.com/the-rudder-that-steers-the-ship/";s:9:"user_role";s:0:"";s:21:"akismet_comment_nonce";s:6:"passed";s:11:"POST_author";s:8:"R. 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It depends on the situation, the structure of the company, the capability to think strategic and problem solving, consumer orientated (a brand happens in the head of consumers) and the ability to involve (internal & external decision makers). 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