September 11, 2013
Branding, City branding

City branding conference – building on the authentic strengths of the place

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Cities and regions are fighting to define a unique position and stand out in the many claims that all cities and municipalities make. But where do you start? And how does a city create a strong sense ...
August 26, 2013
City branding, Creativity and Leadership

Mød ildsjælene bag succesen “Cold Hawaii”

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Der er sket noget magisk i Thy. Vestnordvest for Thisted ligger et af Europas bedste ”spots” for windsurfere. Det er en naturperle og en diamant for den nordjyske region, som netop i disse år er ved at blive slebet. Fænomenet kaldes ”Cold Hawaii” og er kendt verden over, hvis man elsker at ...
August 25, 2013
City branding

Wally Olins, verdens førende place branding ekspert er hovednavn

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City- og country branding eksperten Wally Olins deltager som keynote speaker ved Kommunebranding13 i København den 30. oktober, hvor han sammen med bl.a. Nikolaj Stagis, David Zahle, Pekka Timonen og Jens Klarskov sætter fokus på kommunernes evne til at adskille sig og skabe vækst. Wally Olins e ...
August 18, 2013
Authenticity Book, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Creativity and Leadership

New Management Era: Capitalism and Hyperreality at Academy of Management

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Academy of Management, the Worlds largest conference on management with about 10.000 participants and 1.600 presentations and workshops over a five day period. The conference is held in a new state in the US every year and this year it went down in Orlando, Florida – the home of Walt Disney World. ...
June 21, 2013
Authenticity Book

Review of Den autentiske virksomhed (The Authentic Company)

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Book Review: Center for Cultural and Experience Economy just published their review of our book (in Danish). “Let me tell you straight away. “The Authentic Company” by Nikolaj Stagis is a book of high quality. Both in outside and inside. Here you’ll find more than 300 page ...
June 20, 2013
Authenticity Book, City branding

Municipality Branding: Lego or Low taxes?

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  Recently, I have experienced how branding is no longer only for private companies, as local authorities are well on their way in the process of creating their own authentic brands. This realiza ...
June 12, 2013
Talks and events

Prelude – Folkemødet 2013

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The Danish political festival, Folkemødet, starts tomorrow at Bornholm, where Stagis is represented. It is only the third year, where Folkemødet is held in Denmark, and it has already surpassed its own expectations. This year, Folkemødet beats all records and it is likely that there will be a tot ...
June 7, 2013
Anthropology and Culture, Branding, Communication, Design and Identity

Searching for the authentic brand

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“The municipalities are entering a conform template that makes them more mainstream than unique. Branding a municipality is about defining a unique profile. The municipalities cannot be perceived as unique if they brand themselves on general values.” This is what Nikolaj state in the fea ...
May 30, 2013
Branding

A Better Place – just a tale to be told?

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The story of electric propulsion of cars is almost as old as the dominant design of cars itself. It is a story of many facets and aspects. Several attempts to launch and mass produce the concept have resulted in failure on what was to become a smashing success. The introduction of the concept has se ...
May 18, 2013
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity

How does your company rank?

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Thursday the 16th, Berlingske Business Magasin (a Danish business magazine) published a ranking of 140 renowned Danish companies for 2013 generated from interviews with 4.130 CEO’s. The measurements in the ranking include relevant parameters such as Leadership, Credibility, Competitive abil ...
May 4, 2013
City branding

Jagten på det autentiske brand

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Kronik i avisen Kommunen 4. juni 2013 I Danmark har vi ikke 98 kommuner, men kun tre, hvis man dømmer efter kommunernes værdier, strategier og visioner. Er din kommune eksempelvis den grønne klim ...
April 23, 2013
Authenticity Book, Communication, StagisLife

Praktik i Stagis – få et stærkt internatinoalt netværk i forlagsbranchen (Danish job post)

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Vi har netop oprettet en ny praktikstilling i 2013 i forbindelse med udgivelse af “The Authentic Company” i udlandet: Få et stærkt internationalt netværk i forlagsbranchen Har du læst marketing, kommunikation og sprog, og har du lyst til at være i kontakt med oversættere og interna ...
March 22, 2013
Branding, Communication, Design and Identity, Jobs

Stagis søger kommunikationspraktikanter til efteråret 2013

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Stagis søger to praktikanter til efteråret 2013 med følgende profiler: Corporate branding, kommunikation og kampagner PR, kommunikation og sociale medier CORPORATE BRANDING, KOMMUNIKATION OG KAMPAGNER Har du behov for praktisk erfaring med corporate branding, kommunikation og kam ...
March 21, 2013
Authenticity Book

Becoming an authentic company

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  At Autisme Center Vestsjælland (ACV) I experienced the transformation in the group of the 35 leaders at a workshop, which purpose was to make ACV more authentic – a workshop where the outcome was very much an eye opener for the participating leaders. As one of the participants pointed ...
March 17, 2013
Branding, Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity

Roskilde Festival just got a new logo – so what?

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In a previous blog post One man, 366 logos, I took a closer look at the Swedish designer Fredrik Lundwalls retouch of several well-known brand logos. Lundwall challenged himself to redesign an existing logo each and every day throughout 2012, and the result of his work was numerous potential face-li ...
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