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EXPERTS IN CHALLENGER BRANDSEXPERTS IN CHALLENGER BRANDS
@markcbarden @ABConstraint
The limitation was the
impetus for a better outcome
@markcbarden @ABConstraint
The freedom
of a tight
brief
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
1Victim
Neutralizer
Transformer
2Break Path
Dependence
3Ask
Propelling
Questions
4Can-If
5Creating
Abundance
6Activating
Emotions
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
Imagine . . .
You are 17
You’re an awesome guitarist
EXPERTS IN CHALLENGER BRANDSEXPERTS IN CHALLENGER BRANDS
Industrial factory setting
EXPERTS IN CHALLENGER BRANDSEXPERTS IN CHALLENGER BRANDS
Industrial factory settingHow do you feel now?
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
Victim TransformerNeutralizer
What do you need now?
EXPERTS IN CHALLENGER BRANDSEXPERTS IN CHALLENGER BRANDS
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
“We are the stories
we tell ourselves”Timothy Wilson
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
Victim TransformerNeutralizer
You need a new story
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
Victim TransformerNeutralizer
You need to begin looking for
solutions
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
Abandon conventional thinking
• None of the usual methods of guitar playing can help you now
• This requires a set of truly novel solutions
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
1Victim
Neutralizer
Transformer
2Break Path
Dependence
3Ask
Propelling
Questions
4Can-If
5Creating
Abundance
6Activating
Emotions
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
The Propelling Question
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
The Propelling Question
PLAY
INCREDIBLE
GUITAR
WITH
DAMAGED
FINGERS
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
We can if we…
• We can play incredible guitar with damaged fingers, if we…
EXPERTS IN CHALLENGER BRANDSEXPERTS IN CHALLENGER BRANDS
Your new sound . . .
EXPERTS IN CHALLENGER BRANDSEXPERTS IN CHALLENGER BRANDS
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
We can if we…
• Introduce thimbles to extend fingers
• Substitute guitar strings with banjo strings
• Remove some tension on the strings to make them easy to bend
• We think of it as “heavy metal”
• Required a creative approach to how he saw “assets” (creating
abundance)
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
Difficult
challenges
require Can If
thinking…
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
How can I write a book 1st graders can’t
put down…using only 225 CVC words?
How can we win the race…when our
car is no faster than anyone elses?
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
I can if I introduce rhyming absurdity We can if we substitute a TDI
engine for a conventional one
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
1Victim
Neutralizer
Transformer
2Break Path
Dependence
3Ask
Propelling
Questions
4Can-If
5Creating
Abundance
6Activating
Emotions
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
Surf Propelling Question
How can
we
increase
share by
25%
When we
lack the
product
performance
of leading
brands?
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
A Mindset Journey
Victim TransformerNeutralizer
Nike Propelling Question
Vastly
improve
factory
conditions
Without the
people to
enforce
compliance
Source: Sydow, Schreyvogg and Koch
Propelling Questions force us off the
tried and true path
Nike Propelling Question
An even
better
running
shoe
Big
reduction
in
resources
used
An Airbnb Propelling Question
Great
photos
of every
room
W/o huge
personnel
& travel
costs
We can if we resource it with…
…photographers in our community
A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINT:
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
1Victim
Neutralizer
Transformer
2Break Path
Dependence
3Ask
Propelling
Questions
4Can-If
5Creating
Abundance
6Activating
Emotions
“If you don’t have resources
you have to be resourceful”K.R. Bloom
Create Abundance
ASSETS
What do we have in abundance?
What can we Trade?
REFRAME
How can we reframe these assets to give
them more relevance and value to others?
ASSETS
What do we have in abundance?
What can we Trade?
REFRAME
How can we reframe these assets to give
them more relevance and value to others?
Planes
San Francisco Bay Area
Sir Richard
ASSETS
What do we have in abundance?
What can we Trade?
REFRAME
How can we reframe these assets to give
them more relevance and value to others?
Planes Audience/eyeballs
San Francisco Bay Area
Twitterati / sharers
Google, method
Sir Richard Glamor, celebrity
Victoria’s
Secret
Let’s take this for a spin
Try to write a couple of different Propelling Questions
• Experiment with different combinations of ambition and constraint
• Try different levels of specificity
Propelling Question #1
How can we
provide
fresh
produce for
all
When there
is less water
to irrigate
our farms?
Propelling Question #2
How can we
feed
everyone
Without as
much
farming?
Propelling Question #3
How can we
dramatically
improve
farmers’
access to
water
When
there’s a lot
less rain?
Try to answer
your PQ
using the
Can If
prompts
Can if instructions
• 5 mins on your own getting some can if ideas on paper
• Use the prompts to get you started — doesn’t matter where you start
• You don’t have time to try them all!
• Share out with your team members
• Build on each others’ ideas
• Choose your best one to share out and present it like this:
• How can we [ambition] when we [constraint]?
• We can if we ….
The Rise of the Unreasonable Challenger
“…brands able to unite
attributes that have
previously been perceived
as disparate are showing
considerably more
momentum and energy than
the ones stuck in their old
one-dimensional territory.”
The historic foundations of strategy in marketing and comms
• Categories historically structured around trade-offs — poles of values, which stood in
opposite dimension to each other:• Fast vs Fuel Efficient
• Quality vs Inexpensive
• Healthy food vs Fast Food
• Trade-offs any reasonable person would accept
• Brand strategy: choosing a pole, and linking oneself strongly and creatively to it
• Structure the marketing mix around the most potent delivery of that offer
• Task for comms: romancing why this pole was the most important criterion for choice
Cross platform mobile messaging…for free
The latest fashion… at disposable prices
Good value, fast food
Good value, fast food with a
side of sustainability
An Oscar-worthy gown
An Oscar-worthy gown returned
the next day
The latest smart phone but no
contract
‘One of the roles of planning is to define
the right level of ambition for the brand’
Luis Toledo, JWT
Unreasonable Planning: The Yves Behar Model
Star Wars and The Resource Curse