The company that I
would like to discuss is Google. This company has one of the strongest brand
names due to the magnitude of products that they are beginning to put into the
marketplace and obviously the famed search engine “Google”, which I would say
is one of the most used “product” in the US.
In addition, Google
has always branded itself as the company that will push technology into the
future, in terms of the new phones that they are producing and also their
initiative in the electronic car marketplace. These are only a few of the
numerous things that Google is doing and I feel that they are beginning to
expand more and more into other sectors than just the web.
This is also the case
in the people they hire because their brand pushes for the best of the best
because they have branded themselves as the company of the Future, and in my
opinion “more techy” than even Apple. This all helps Google to become one of the
major players in the technology industry and helps expand their reputation all
over the world because of the respect that their competitors hold about Google.
I feel that this
brand and reputation tie together very well because they have tried to build
the brand of being the Company of the Future and the reputation that they have
is based on this idea of being the “Future”. I think that what a company Brands
itself should be based on the reputation that others have about it because if
Google said it was the company of the Future but customers/investors didn’t
think so then that Brand should be changed because obviously people don’t hold
the same view as the company. These two aspects are so correlated because the
brand is what the company thinks of itself based on how the reputation of their
company is view by outsiders. So this whole idea that Google brands itself as
the company of the Future tells me that they want to hire employees who will
help build this brand and they want their customers reputation of themselves to
be seen as the brightest and best technology company out there.
So overall I would
definitely say that Google has made a name for itself as being the company of
the Future and have used this brand to build products to build that reputation.
Without the reputation a company cant brand itself to be something completely
different than how they are viewed.
We use Google products in our course. Blogger,is a Google tool (by acquisition; it used to be an independent company). We also use Google forms for submission of the Excel homework.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I'm not sure why as a consumer I should care about the company of the future. I'd like the best for the here and now. So Google Glass and the self-driving care are all fine and dandy, but they don't explain while I will or won't use other Google products.
In the past year Google has cancelled - Google Reader and iGoogle. Those are both products that I did rely on. Obviously they are not part of Google's future plans. But they were part of my current use practice. And I was a little miffed when both of them ended.
If being the company of the future means that sometimes they won't be the company of the present, it's a lesson for me not to get so hooked on their products. And there is an issue, beyond my own personal use, whether they may start to lose some previously loyal users because those users don't see there interests as all that important to the company.