A new voice for a successful Government program

Brandprofiling, brand identity and digital platform for YourSay – a South Australian Government Community Engagement platform.

The Department of Premier and Cabinet have an established community consultation program with a brand identity that had been in place since the program inception. The overarching success of the program had driven a broader development with wider and increased audience engagement. This lead to a shift in the value proposition and misalignment with the program identity with the potential to lose audience relevance.

Working Images was invited to review the value proposition for the program, messaging and communication strategy and develop a new brand identity with the aim to reposition the program on a local, national and international stage.

It’s a daunting task to be engaged to rebrand a successful program, especially when the problems are not immediately visible or tangible. To begin this process and create definition for the approach, Working images lead the program team through a one day brandprofiling working session, harnessing their high level knowledge around the program and audience.

The session generated multiple perspectives and mined valuable thoughts and opinions that had over time been forgotten or become usurped in other priority engagements.

With the time and space (only a day) we were able to bring these critical thoughts and ideas back to the surface and to reflect on them as a group – evaluating, critiquing and challenging.

The session and outcomes clearly resolved an ongoing position for the program, ensured its relevance to growing audiences and lead to unexpected and significant insight into the brand that guided the brand identity. This was to an extent unexpected, as the team demonstrated an extremely high level of sophistication in their approach to the planning and development of the program.

The magic of an authentic process and rigorous methodology is the means to consider the DNA of an organisation and its product – in both granular and macro perspectives made possible by an objective platform. In the process of developing the brand identity it was discovered quite incidentally that at the heart of the program name lay the words OUR SA. On presenting the finding to the team we were delighted (and surprised) to find that it had never been considered. This singular insight into the organisation guided the subsequent development of the brand identity and revitalised a program both the for the department and their growing, global audience.