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A word from the BRAIN part of the STORM:
What happens as a result of brain friction
(a.k.a. Our Strategic Process).

By Bob Froese - The BrainStorm Group

Our Strategic Mission

To provide dynamic insight around the brand-consumer relationship for the synergistic development and sound validation of marketing/communication solutions.

"We are here to ask the hard, right questions."
"We are here to help answer the questions."
"We are here to make sure the consumer is the beginning of the solution."
"We are here to connect the dots."
"We are here to help tell the most compelling story."

Our Thinkers

Insightful, Controversial, Truth seeking
Conceptual integrator
Consumer advocate
Consumer accountant
Psychologist
Private investigator
Soothsayer

Is your favorite 3 letter word "why"? Were you a detective in a past life? Does one answer lead to another question? Do you always find yourself trying to unearth "the truth"? Is the web your domain and the tireless bloggers victims of your voyeurism? Do you find yourself playing the role of social anthropologist and psychologist at cocktail parties? Do you rock the "trivial pursuit" board? Do you love numbers for the stories they tell? Are you a trend maven? Do you study fashion victims and wonder how and why products are designed for them? Is your intuition quotient off the charts? Do you start every day by feeding your insatiable curiosity?

If you were intrigued by any of these questions, we want to be on your team. We have the potential to experience spectacular mind meld together.

Where does the Journey Begin?

The journey begins with intense curiosity. We ask the most basic questions to the least likely questions. The path always begins with where you are. What is happening in the marketplace? What are the category obstacles? What do your competitors' consumers and customers think about what is being sold to them? Is your industry driving consumers or are your consumers driving the industry? How is your company's brand health inside and out? Are you selling the category or creating a new category? Are you leading the industry pack or are you mimicking your competitors? Once we've answered these questions, we can leverage the answers and ask some more questions. We can then navigate for where you could go? What can you own? What do you currently own? Where will the lightning strike? How will we get there? And when we are successful, how will we measure our success? Let's do this together, set our benchmarks, standards, and pure reason for existence.

Where is Intuition?

There is a place that is hard to reach, but coveted by thinkers around the world. It is a place that you cannot plan to visit, but you might be surprised to find yourself as a resident. This is place is called Intuition. The intersection of theory and practice is where you will find intuition. This is where we live. We are constantly fusing theory with practice to evolve insights into applications, brand missions into brand equity, and ultimately driving engagement, retention, and affection. And that's it from the brain today...