Research, particularly academic, into Branding, Design, and Business, often seeks to identify common issues of practice within identified subject areas and create frameworks or models, which will help practitioners within business organisations to operate more effectively.
In building case studies through a speculative comparison of two B2C brands; Lego and Unilever, such brand models are applied here to examine why each company has found it necessary to adopt changes to their strategy to incur different relationships with their customers.