Category Archives: Corporate identity

Harris Poll’s corporate reputation quotient

I have covered various measures for corporate reputation in previous blog posts. Today I want to introduce another – quite different – quantitative approach: Since 1999, Harris Poll Reputation Quotient research has evaluated public perceptions across 20 attributes, classified into six dimensions of corporate reputation. According to Harris, this allows them to reliably trend performance… Read More »

“Fighting for a Reputation”

CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with its “Marketplace” program recently had a lab analyze chicken meat and strips cooked in popular fast-food chains. Subway meat, the report indicated, showed significant amounts of non-chicken DNA, instead up to  50 percent from soy. Chicken from other fast-food chains, such as McDonald’s and Tim Hortons, did not have such high levels… Read More »

How to Ruin your Reputation in 10 minutes – PwC and the Oscars

Accounting and consulting firm PwC benefitted 83 years from reliably handling the balloting process at the Academy Awards. On Sunday they jeopardized this reputation within minutes, because of a colossal mistake at the 89th Academy Awards when actors Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty wrongly announced the top Oscar went to “La La Land,” instead of “Moonlight.”… Read More »

Top 100 Companies by Reputation in 2017

The Reputation Institute (RI) yesterday announced the company’s annual Global RepTrak® 100 rankings. Based on over 170,000 ratings collected in the first quarter of 2017, the survey is the largest corporate reputation study of its kind, and includes comparative ratings, trends by demographic cuts, and unique insights into which companies are best regarded by stakeholders… Read More »

Corporate communication inventory / design audit

Working with a client to review his current corporate communication practices, I conducted a corporate communication inventory. This issue actually is not very much covered in the textbook (only mentioned as a side issue) and so I thought I’d devote a blog post to this issue and mark it for inclusion into the book in a… Read More »