The Challenge
A company can be doing stellar work but if they’re not actively thinking strategically about communicating these contrivances, it's hard to obtain positive feedback.
The Opportunity
Vivaldi Group sent out their researchers out into the field to collect useful insights while collaborating with brand experts to refine Generali’s marketing strategy.
The Outcome
Generali was pleasantly satisfied with our collaboration in creating a strategic approach for their marketing plan that was able to increase its influence cross-functionally.
An Insurance Policy for Tomorrow
Generali, one of the biggest insurance company worldwide, approached Vivaldi to collaboratively develop a marketing communication strategy, redefine Generali Switzerland’s brand values, and develop marketing activities to increase greater demand for their Mobility and Life products.
In 2015, Generali Switzerland had experienced structural changes that led to a realignment organizationally with Generali’s Headquarters in Trieste, Italy. In addition, the CMO started an internal initiative to strengthen the role of the Marketing department as a driver of strategic projects. In this time of transition, Generali Switzerland needed to act quickly to bridge the gap between today and tomorrow’s brand, requiring strong business-driven and product-focused marketing support in 2016.
Vivaldi was briefed to equip the Generali Switzerland marketing team with a distinctive, compelling marketing communication strategy, as well as a product-selling marketing concept that would inspire the internal team to enhance its marketing capabilities, and would drive business for Generali Switzerland across all customer touchpoints.
Increasing the premium
Vivaldi worked in close collaboration with the Generali marketing team to develop and refine the new marketing communication strategy. We began by interviewing more than 20 senior management executives across all business functions to provide a current snapshot of marketing at Generali, as well as Generali’s brand values. To uncover and identify possible strategy directions and new brand values, Vivaldi additionally provided a holistic outside-in perspective on Generali and its business environment. We conducted various assessments on team capabilities, the market environment, current NPS scores, customer profiles & touchpoints, and current brand values.
Based on these initial analyses and insights, Vivaldi defined a winning marketing planning framework, a cohesive communication strategy and the guiding principles required to drive business for 2016. Customer journeys, communication content and marketing vehicles were defined with a strong focus on a business-enabling messaging architecture. By defining a clear brand concept based on the newly developed brand values, Vivaldi and Generali established clear hierarchies and goals for individual marketing communication campaigns. Establishing clarity on campaign hierarchies and goals allowed Vivaldi to not only set a common understanding of the new marketing communication strategy but also to continue developing various product-oriented marketing concepts, including design executions. Through a collaborative workshop with Generali, we fine-tuned compelling concepts and created an inspiring visual vision that met all of Generali’s communication goals.
Comfort in coverage
Vivaldi’s strategic approach to marketing planning and communication was well received and appreciated amongst the management team. The results were seen as a sound basis for future marketing developments. In an initially silo-driven environment, the marketing communication team was able to increase its influence cross-functionally and create a holistic marketing strategy for 2016 amongst relevant stakeholders.
As a result of this work, a more business-driving communication style and increased credibility of marketing within the company was established. In order to execute on the product campaign concept selected, Vivaldi created a holistic agency briefing to help Generali choose a partner for the execution of the 2016 product campaign. Within just 3 months of starting the development of a marketing communication strategy and its corresponding product campaign, the project was handed over to a major global ad agency for the execution of the new product-oriented marketing campaign. The campaign was successfully launched in Switzerland in April 2016.