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Managing relationships – protecting your brand. SportAccord Keynote Address Patrick Baumann Secretary General Lausanne, 19 May 2004. Managing relationships - protecting your brand.
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Managing relationships – protecting your brand SportAccord Keynote Address Patrick Baumann Secretary General Lausanne, 19 May 2004
Managing relationships - protecting your brand • Successful relationships are all about give and take, but ultimately sports bodies are the owners of their brands and need to protect them. This is a continous process in the marketplace where broadcasters and sponsors are paying large fees for rights and it is understandable for them to want to „own“ a share of the brand. Managing the subtle relationship between partners during an event is of special relevance to everyone involved in the international sports scene.
Managing relationships - protecting your brand • The changing world of sport associations • Managing diversity (institutional view) • Choosing profitable exchanges (commercial view) • Creating value and protecting it (a branding exercice)
Managing relationships - protecting your brand The changing world of sport associations FIBA FIBA ZONE NATIONAL FEDERATIONS CLUBS ATHLETES
Managing relationships - protecting your brand Managing diversity FIBA FIBA ZONE Revenue generation is mean to achieve objectives NATIONAL FEDERATIONS CLUBS Revenue generation (profitability) is the objective Clubs and Leagues ATHLETES
Managing relationships - protecting your brand Managing diversity INTERNATIONAL FEDERATIONS NATIONAL FEDERATIONS LEAGUES CLUBS Internal factors External factors Market economy Other industries Television Sponsors Customers Governments Own structure and Management processes
Managing relationships - protecting your brand Choosing profitable exchanges • Relationships with Sponsors and Television: they..... • .....want to „own“ a share of the brand....
Managing relationships - protecting your brand A branding exercice • Creating a brand....... • The process • .......and protecting it. • Communicate (www.fibaidentity.net) • Improve
The vision. • FIBA believes that sports provide people with values through which they define themselves. Basketball is unique: Fast and precise, mind and body, a sport in which the individual is as powerful as the team.
The mission. • FIBA governs basketball worldwide, making the rules and keeping the sport in line. We make sure basketball is challenging, exciting and fascinating for everyone – everywhere. • FIBA is basketball.
Managing relationships - protecting your brand A branding exercice Managing relationships - protecting your brand A branding exercice Communic.Activities Sport Commercial Activities Zones Competitions Zones Global Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania MensWomensYouth etc. Antidoping Young coaches program Refereeing program Developmentprogram Ferrandiz Foundation Television Programming Website Print Material Player Data Base Admin. & Accounting Marketing & Sales Certification Event Management Study Centre and Reserach Federations (sample) Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania NationalTeamsClubs Member Associations (sample) Americas Various Where we came from:
Managing relationships - protecting your brand A branding exercice New Brand Architecture:
Managing relationships - protecting your brand A branding exercice
Managing relationships - protecting your brand A branding exercice
Managing relationships – protecting your brand THANK YOU !
Managing relationships.... • National Federations • Responsible for National Teams • Responsible to organize competitions for all clubs • Responsible to foster youth activities, long-term • Dependant on income from national teams • Dependant on clubs • Limited in resources • Limited by calendar
Clubs/Leagues: • Responsible for elite teams • Promote the sport 9 months out of 12 • 20% of clubs generate 90% of national revenues • Increasing Shareholder pressure, short-term • Little sense for solidarity • Top clubs strive for int. markets and closed competition • Strong dependance on market economy • Wrong economics • Professionally organized