CASE STUDY
A Cross-Cultural Communications Platform At Scale
Technology
A Cross-Cultural Communications Platform At Scale
How to move from a ‘general market’ and ‘multicultural’ communications platform to a cross-cultural platform for a more inclusive customer experience.
The Situation
An industry leading technology company was looking to culturally transform their decades old utility brand from the inside, out.
With a new CMO and marketing leadership team in place, the ask was to help the multicultural marketing organization transform into becoming a cultural and high growth segment organization.
Reframe was asked to assist with the transformation along with providing advisory services for helping the general market agency develop a communications platform for millennial and high growth segments (i.e. US Hispanics, African-Americans and Black customer segments).
- Help to understand commonalities as well as differences to barriers/drivers to purchase for Millennial and Multicultural Millennial segments.
- If relevant, develop a cross-cultural platform that incorporates both general market and
multicultural insights.
The Opportunity
The Approach
- Conducted Millennial and Multicultural Millennial consumer desk research and use primary research.
- Gained an understanding of attitudes, behaviors and media habits of Millennial and Millennial Multicultural consumer segments via customer journey mapping for Millennial, Millennial – Hispanic, Millennial – Black and Millennial – Asian.
- Developed insights for barriers, drivers and channels across each consumer segment.
- Developed hypothesis for desired behavior change by each stage of the customer journey.
- Created cross-cultural strategic lines of communication across segments while understanding deep insights by ethnicity.
The Results
- Developed a cross-cultural platform for consideration within the national brand campaign platform.
- Developed Millennial and Multicultural Millennial consumer personas, customer journeys, an understanding of barriers and drivers to purchase.
- Developed cross-cultural insights as well as Hispanic only, Black only and Asian only insights.