jean-baptiste danet business is beautiful

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Superbrands Conference Warsaw 2013

Jean-Baptiste Danet, Global CEO, Dragon Rouge

Dragon Rouge is a global design and innovation business. We put talent and ideas at the centre of our activity to deliver powerful brand performance.

We design strategies, initiate the creation of new products and services, create identities and communications – and engage people in making their companies great.

Founded in 1984 in France, we are a leading international group.

We combine local expertise and consumer knowledge with a global strategic vision of brand management.

For decades, the marketing industry has been obsessed with distilling brand management into a science. !!Brands are no longer full of fluff. !!Brands are value-creators. They require an objective, reliable, analytical and dispassionate management approach. Information and insight are the foundation of great brands. !!They can be measured. !They can be compared. !They can be ranked.!!They can be improved through best practice processes and models.!

Why ‘business is beautiful’?

But the cracks in this approach are starting to show: more scientific approaches do not yield consistently better brands. !!Brands cannot be managed in a mechanical, cold, statistical way.!!We believe that business is about people. People who come together to achieve more than is possible individually. Achievement is easily measured through profit, but value is a much bigger concept. Beyond profit, businesses have the ability to make valuable contributions to society. !So the dialogue around brands is changing: the industry is re-awakening to the potency of imagination, creativity, personality and spontaneity.!

Why ‘business is beautiful’?

…because businesses rely on brands to stimulate creativity and imagination. This is is the role that brands play in creating value. !

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Why ‘business is beautiful’?

So we wrote a book.! Not a book about brands, but a book about business. !!More specifically, a book about what business looks like when it"s #done beautifully.!!!

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Business is Beautiful

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Business is not merely a science

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Business is a hard art

And brands make business beautiful

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The book contains five chapters.!!Each chapter represents a different aspect of what $Beautiful Business" means:!!The five Hallmarks of #Beautiful Business.!!

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Business is Beautiful

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The 5 Hallmarks of Beautiful Business

Integrity Beautiful businesses have a clear sense of purpose; a noble, unwavering belief that translates into firm principles for how to succeed.

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The 5 Hallmarks of Beautiful Business

Integrity Beautiful businesses have a clear sense of purpose; a noble, unwavering belief that translates into firm principles for how to succeed.

Curiosity Beautiful businesses do not stand still; they are restless, brave, intrepid and they create constant surprise.

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The 5 Hallmarks of Beautiful Business

Integrity Beautiful businesses have a clear sense of purpose; a noble, unwavering belief that translates into firm principles for how to succeed.

Curiosity Beautiful businesses do not stand still; they are restless, brave, intrepid and they create constant surprise.

Elegance Beautiful businesses are pleasurably simple; they find intelligent ways of doing things and they understand that persuasive presentation is a prerequisite for performance.

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The 5 Hallmarks of Beautiful Business

Integrity Beautiful businesses have a clear sense of purpose; a noble, unwavering belief that translates into firm principles for how to succeed.

Curiosity Beautiful businesses do not stand still; they are restless, brave, intrepid and they create constant surprise.

Elegance Beautiful businesses are pleasurably simple; they find intelligent ways of doing things and they understand that persuasive presentation is a prerequisite for performance.

Craft Beautiful businesses apply consideration to every last detail, no matter how small; beauty does not happen without devotion.

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The 5 Hallmarks of Beautiful Business

Integrity Beautiful businesses have a clear sense of purpose; a noble, unwavering belief that translates into firm principles for how to succeed.

Curiosity Beautiful businesses do not stand still; they are restless, brave, intrepid and they create constant surprise.

Elegance Beautiful businesses are pleasurably simple; they find intelligent ways of doing things and they understand that persuasive presentation is a prerequisite for performance.

Craft Beautiful businesses apply consideration to every last detail, no matter how small; beauty does not happen without devotion.

Prosperity Beautiful businesses have a meaningful concept of value creation; they make positive contributions to their owners, employees, customers, suppliers, society and the environment.

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The world of Beautiful Business

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Not your standard business book

The book is designed to be enjoyable to read on a long-haul flight.

It’s not a ‘how to’ manual for creating shareholder value.

We use ideas and cultural references from all sorts of areas.

The businesses we included

We started with the themes we had developed and identified over 120 businesses that were a possible match for our hallmarks.

We canvassed the Dragon Rouge network for candidates, and then reached a shortlist that most closely reflected our thinking.

We chose a cross-section of businesses from around the world we believe help us to represent ‘Beautiful Business’ in action.

Big and small.

A variety of industries.

Not clients.

Integrity

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INTEGRITY

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Building arou

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Exercising

imagination

Embracing sacri"ce

Being authentic

Committing openly

Rede"ning

Autolib’

Narayana

Dr Irena Eris

vente-privée

Rabobank

Hospitals

Pão de Açucar

ELEGAN

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Building around a purpose | Embracing sacrifice | Being authentic | Committing openly

Curiosity

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We are Beautiful Introducing Business is Beautiful

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CURIOSITY

CRAFT

PROSPERITY

Building around

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imag

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Pleasing through economy

Embracing sacri"ce

Being authentic

Comm

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Exercising imagination | Redefining convention | Encouraging challenge | Learning how to fail

Elegance

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We are Beautiful Introducing Business is Beautiful

INTEGRITYC

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Exercising imagination

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Interface

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Pleasing through economy | Designing with empathy | Demonstrating poise | Inviting interpretation

Craft

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We are Beautiful Introducing Business is Beautiful

INT

EGR

ITY

CURIOSITY

CRAFT

PROSPERITY

Connecting

through stories

Applying the

human hand

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signature styleCre

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sen

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ning

with

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pathy

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Connecting through stories | Applying the human hand | Developing a signature style | Creating a sense of theatre

Prosperity

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We are Beautiful Introducing Business is Beautiful

INTEGRITY

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CRA

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PROSPERITY

Caring about people

Establishing a legacy

Valuing what m

atters

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Building around

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Embracing sacri"ce

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Caring abour people | Establishing a legacy | Valuing what matters | Asserting influence

We are Beautiful Introducing Business is Beautiful

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EGR

ITY

CURIOSITY

CRAFT

PROSPERITY

Carin

g about p

eople

Establishing a legacy

Valuing what matters

Asserting in!uence

Building around

a purpose

Exercising

imagin

ation

Pleasing through economy

Connecting

through stories

Embracin

g sacri"ce

Being authentic

Comm

itting openly

Applying the

human hand

Developin

g a

signature style C

reating a sen

seof th

eatre

Designing

with em

pathy

Inviting

interpretatio

n Dem

onstratin

g p

oise

Rede"ning

convention

Learning

how to fail

Autolib’

Interface

Icebreaker3M

Narayana

Dr Irena Eris

vente-privée

Rabobank

Hospitals

Pão de Açucar

EGG

-energ

y

Arup

BMW

iR

apha

Condé Nast

Oti

con

Story

Threadless

Zetter

KTC

Opow

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ELE

GA

NC

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Encouraging

challenge

And here is the world of Beautiful Business

!being a beautiful business will become a hallmark of those who will be the most successful at standing apart in the future.

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And based on our conversations with businesses when writing this book:

Daniel Pink, New York Times best selling business author of Drive and To sell is Human, has given us an endorsement that reflects his reading of the book...

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Initial feedback has been overwhelmingly positive

“Don’t hate a business because it’s beautiful. Strive to be more like it, using the guidance you’ll find in Business is Beautiful. This lovely book is filled with stories of companies that have been inspired by beauty of all kinds – aesthetic, scientific, ethical, and more. This is a new look at the search for excellence that I think will resonate with many business leaders.”

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Initial feedback has been overwhelmingly positive

Jonathan Porritt, Founder, Forum for the Future has commented in an afterword to Prosperity:

“These inspirational stories and characters are all too obviously working against the grain of what passes for normal in today’s world.”

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Initial feedback has been overwhelmingly positive

Zygmunt Bauman - Liquid Life

Having a perspective

Realising the hopes of the past

Equilibrium between freedom and security

Global responsibility

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Conclusion

Join our conversation:

business-is-beautiful.com

@BeautifulBizDR

linkedin.com/groups/Business-is-Beautiful

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Join us in the conversation!

Agnieszka B!kowska Client Service Director - Consumer Brands DRAGON ROUGE

T: +48 22 651 84 20

M: +48 501 100 703

Arkadiusz "o# Brand Consulting & CI Director DRAGON ROUGE T: +48 22 651 84 20 M: +48 501 385869

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www.dragonrouge.pl / www.dragonrouge.com

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