{"id":16179,"date":"2015-06-07T17:19:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T17:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/?p=16179"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:41:08","slug":"gestao-de-marca-nas-tendencias-e-questoes-do-seculo-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/pt\/gestao-de-marca-nas-tendencias-e-questoes-do-seculo-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Brand Management in the 21st Century: Trends and Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sis-hero-preserved sis-injected-hero\" data-sis-injected=\"hero\">\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-0fce53c2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1456\" height=\"816\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-0fce53c2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Branding-3.jpg\" alt=\"Pesquisa e Estrat\u00e9gia de Mercado Internacional da SIS\" title=\"Branding (3)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Branding-3.jpg 1456w, https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Branding-3-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Branding-3-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Branding-3-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Branding-3-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Durante a \u00faltima d\u00e9cada, experiment\u00e1mos mudan\u00e7as dram\u00e1ticas no nosso mundo a n\u00edvel social, econ\u00f3mico e pol\u00edtico. Desde o in\u00edcio dos anos noventa, vivemos o fim do comunismo e o crescimento da globaliza\u00e7\u00e3o. Tamb\u00e9m vivenciamos uma grande reengenharia de grandes empresas e a evolu\u00e7\u00e3o da estrutura corporativa tradicional para a corpora\u00e7\u00e3o virtual. Mais dram\u00e1tico foi o desenvolvimento da Internet e o seu impacto tanto no local de trabalho como em casa.<\/h5>\n<p>Com todas estas mudan\u00e7as, \u00e9 claro que estamos perante uma nova ordem mundial, uma nova forma de gerir empresas e uma nova forma de viver as nossas vidas pessoais. Do ponto de vista empresarial, as seguintes mudan\u00e7as dram\u00e1ticas ocorreram na \u00faltima d\u00e9cada:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>O ritmo \u00e9 mais r\u00e1pido.<\/li>\n<li>As empresas ficam instantaneamente conectadas aos seus clientes, fornecedores e distribuidores.<\/li>\n<li>A globaliza\u00e7\u00e3o produziu um mercado verdadeiramente global.<\/li>\n<li>H\u00e1 tanta informa\u00e7\u00e3o dispon\u00edvel que as empresas precisam interpret\u00e1-la continuamente e transform\u00e1-la em \u201cintelig\u00eancia\u201d \u00fatil para a sua empresa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h1>Brand Management in the 21st Century Trends and Issues: What Industrial Leaders Are Doing Differently<\/h1>\n<p>Brand equity has shifted from a marketing asset to an operating one. In B2B industrial markets, it now governs procurement shortlists, specification wins, and aftermarket capture rates. The leaders treating it as such are pulling ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Brand Management in the 21st Century Trends and Issues now sits inside the same review cadence as installed base analytics and supplier qualification audits. The reason is structural. Buyers consolidate vendors, distributors gain leverage, and digital procurement compresses the window in which a brand can influence a decision. The firms winning specification wars are reading these signals earlier and acting on them with primary evidence.<\/p>\n<h2>The Industrial Brand Has Become a Procurement Filter<\/h2>\n<p>Brand once influenced preference. In industrial categories, it now controls access. Procurement teams at firms like Caterpillar, Schneider Electric, and Honeywell increasingly pre-qualify vendors using composite signals: total cost of ownership reputation, aftermarket reliability, and uptime guarantees. Vendors absent from the consideration set never see the RFQ.<\/p>\n<p>This changes the math. A brand tracking program in industrial sectors must measure unaided recall among specifiers, distributors, and end users separately, because the three populations weight different attributes. Specifiers value engineering credibility. Distributors weight margin support and lead time. End users care about field service response.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#216896;border-left:3px solid #216896;padding-left:0.5rem;\">SIS International Research has observed across B2B engagements that industrial brands losing share rarely lose on product. They lose on the absence of credible third-party signal at the specification stage, where engineers and procurement leads form their shortlist before any sales contact occurs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Brand Equity Index Construction Has Replaced Awareness Tracking<\/h2>\n<p>Awareness alone has lost diagnostic value. The instruments now used by sophisticated industrial marketers combine awareness, preference, differentiation, and purchase intent into a weighted brand equity index, calibrated to category dynamics. The index is then decomposed by buyer segment, geography, and channel.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanics matter. Attribute importance must be derived through MaxDiff or conjoint exercises, not direct rating, because industrial buyers consistently over-rate price and under-rate switching costs when asked directly. Brand positioning maps built from derived importance reveal where a brand is genuinely differentiated and where it is merely visible.<\/p>\n<p>Companies like Siemens, Atlas Copco, and Emerson use this construction to allocate brand investment by segment rather than by region, a shift that changes media mix decisions materially.<\/p>\n<h2>Customer Loyalty Now Splits Along Service and Specification Lines<\/h2>\n<p>Loyalty in industrial markets is rarely monolithic. It bifurcates. A customer can be loyal at the specification level while disloyal at the consumables and aftermarket level, or the reverse. Treating loyalty as a single NPS score misses the revenue implication.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#216896;border-left:3px solid #216896;padding-left:0.5rem;\">In structured B2B expert interviews conducted by SIS International across industrial manufacturers in North America, Europe, and Asia, the strongest predictor of installed base retention was not satisfaction but perceived switching cost combined with field service consistency. Brands that invested in service network density retained customers through pricing actions that competitors assumed would trigger defection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The implication for brand investment is direct. Service touchpoints are brand touchpoints, and they compound. A field engineer&#8217;s response time shapes brand equity more than a trade publication ad in categories where downtime carries six-figure consequences.<\/p>\n<h2>Digital Specification Has Compressed the Brand Window<\/h2>\n<p>Engineers now shortlist vendors through digital catalogs, CAD libraries, and procurement platforms before any human contact. The brand impression formed in those environments is increasingly decisive. Firms like Rockwell Automation and ABB have responded by treating their digital product content as a brand asset under the same governance as advertising.<\/p>\n<p>This raises a measurement question that traditional brand tracking does not answer. How does a brand perform inside a procurement portal where the buyer compares three vendors side by side on filtered specifications? The answer requires choice-based testing in simulated procurement environments, not survey questions about preference in the abstract.<\/p>\n<h2>The SIS Brand Equity Diagnostic Framework<\/h2>\n<p>SIS International applies a four-layer diagnostic to industrial brand engagements: awareness depth by buyer role, derived attribute importance through conjoint, switching cost mapping, and channel-specific loyalty decomposition. Each layer answers a question the prior layer raises.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table sis-injected-table\" data-sis-injected=\"table\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Layer<\/th>\n<th>Method<\/th>\n<th>Decision It Informs<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Awareness Depth<\/td>\n<td>Unaided recall by specifier, distributor, end user<\/td>\n<td>Where to invest in category presence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Derived Importance<\/td>\n<td>MaxDiff or choice-based conjoint<\/td>\n<td>Which attributes to anchor positioning on<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Switching Cost Map<\/td>\n<td>B2B expert interviews, installed base analysis<\/td>\n<td>Pricing power and defensive investment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Loyalty Decomposition<\/td>\n<td>Segmented tracking across product, service, consumables<\/td>\n<td>Where retention spend earns return<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-size:11px;color:#666;margin-top:4px;\"><em>Source: SIS International Research<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>What Leading Industrial Firms Are Doing Differently<\/h2>\n<p>Three patterns separate the firms gaining share. They run brand tracking on a continuous rather than annual cycle, allowing them to detect erosion before it shows in the order book. They tie brand metrics to commercial outcomes through linkage analysis, demonstrating to the CFO that brand investment correlates with bid win rates and price realization. They treat distributors and channel partners as a measured audience, not a pass-through.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#216896;border-left:3px solid #216896;padding-left:0.5rem;\">SIS International&#8217;s analysis across industrial manufacturing engagements indicates that firms running quarterly brand health tracking with linked commercial KPIs identify share-shift signals roughly two reporting cycles earlier than firms relying on annual studies. That window is often the difference between a defensive response and a recovery program.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The Investment Case Has Strengthened<\/h2>\n<p>Brand investment in industrial categories was historically defended on intangibles. The case is now quantitative. Brands with measurable equity advantages command price premiums that survive procurement scrutiny, win specification battles before the RFQ, and retain installed base customers through competitive pricing actions. The discipline of Brand Management in the 21st Century Trends and Issues is converging with the discipline of commercial operations, and the firms treating it that way are setting the pace.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"about-sis-international\" style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1a3d68;\">Sobre SIS Internacional<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sisinternational.com\/pt\/\">SIS Internacional<\/a> oferece pesquisa quantitativa, qualitativa e estrat\u00e9gica. Fornecemos dados, ferramentas, estrat\u00e9gias, relat\u00f3rios e insights para a tomada de decis\u00f5es. 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