Branding Governance: A Participatory Approach T... -
They stopped viewing the brand as a static monument and started seeing it as an .
By giving up total control, Velo-City gained something better: . Branding Governance: A Participatory Approach t...
The Marketing team realized their job wasn't to be "Brand Police," but . They stopped spending their days correcting font sizes and started spending them spotlighting the best innovations from the field. They stopped viewing the brand as a static
Every quarter, a rotating group of employees from different departments met to discuss what was working. The "Governance" wasn't a top-down decree; it was a peer-reviewed consensus. The Result They stopped spending their days correcting font sizes
The brand was fracturing because it was being policed, not lived. The Shift: From Policemen to Facilitators
On one side sat the , clutching a 150-page Brand Bible. They wanted consistency—the exact shade of "Electric Teal" on every PDF. On the other side were the Regional Leads , who argued that a rigid Swiss design didn't resonate in the humid, chaotic streets of Bangkok or the minimalist hubs of Copenhagen.