03.2_build the foundation
Our process begins by first developing foundational strategies to address business issues at the core. During this critical stage our goal is to deliver a set of strategic choices for business growth that leverage your company’s most important assets: Shared vision. Value creation. Strategic Positioning. These are the qualities that become the source of your organization’s sustainable competitive advantage.

Brand Character

Vanguard’s Brand Character is an invaluable tool for developing a focused, integrated brand management program. Brand Character enables us to articulate a company’s value proposition across all stakeholder groups through a powerful combination of visual and verbal identity. Most important, Brand Character integrates all marketing efforts by providing a clearer focus and more precise vision—leading to improved communications with all audiences.

Corporate Identity

Identity consists of a wordmark, symbol, color palette, ligatures… all of which serve as a visual shorthand for a company’s brand. In reality, corporate identity is the outward, visual articulation of the relationships, promises, products, culture, history, successes (and failures) access points, and everything else that makes up an organization. Is an identity a “logo?” Sure, but that only scratches the surface. Vanguard’s process of identity development and design is as sophisticated, complex and successful as the organizations for which they are designed.