Draw out a brand’s inherent strengths and achieve sustainable growth.
A company’s vision represents its long-term goals and aspirations — it forms the foundation of all branding activities.
For a brand to communicate effectively and resonate with its audience, it is essential to clarify how it wants customers to feel and design the optimal approach based on that understanding.
A brand cannot be built through one-way communication.
It takes shape as its philosophy and concept gradually resonate within the perceptions of its audience, becoming an enduring impression over time.
In the context of business revitalization, what is required is not merely brand reconstruction, but tangible results driven by concrete actions.
To achieve growth in sales and revitalize an organization, it is crucial to enhance employee motivation and ensure that the brand’s value permeates both inside and outside the company.
We help organizations unlock their true strengths and achieve sustainable growth by reassessing and organizing the value built through their brand assets, and by redefining the brand’s direction toward the future.
Vision Design for an Uncertain Era
In corporate management, the approach of growing together with society has long been valued, as exemplified by Japan’s traditional principle of “Sanpō Yoshi” (benefiting the seller, buyer, and society). However, in recent years, many companies have prioritized efficiency and short-term results to the extent that they fail to gain customer empathy, fall into price competition, or engage in activities disconnected from solving social issues—ultimately losing sustainable trust. As a result, the formation of intangible assets such as corporate reputation and future brand value can be hindered. In this context, “Vision Design” becomes essential.
A vision is not merely a depiction of the future; it functions as a core axis that engages diverse stakeholders—employees, customers, shareholders, and local communities—and enables co-creation. Moreover, it serves as a guiding principle for resource allocation and streamlines the company’s overall activities. Companies with a clear vision can draw out employee initiative, strengthen organizational culture, reduce turnover, and enhance recruitment capabilities. A vision with social significance also encourages collaboration with government and partner companies, driving sustainable competitive advantage while opening new market opportunities.
On the other hand, management without a vision tends to respond to daily challenges in a piecemeal fashion, loses sight of priorities for resource allocation, fails to achieve even short-term results, and faces a heightened risk of undermining medium- to long-term corporate value. A vision that connects the current state with future aspirations acts as a compass guiding corporate activities, enabling sustainable growth and the creation of new value while earning trust from society.
Co-Creation Through Design Thinking
Our approach is grounded in Design Thinking — a methodology that captures problems from the user’s perspective and generates solutions through empathy and creativity.
By focusing on people’s fundamental needs and aspirations, we gain a deep understanding of their challenges and uncover latent demands that conventional product- or technology-centered thinking often overlooks.
This user-centered process enables the creation of truly innovative products and services that resonate with people’s lives.
Through the iterative stages of observation, empathy, definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing, a diverse range of stakeholders — including executives, employees, customers, and local communities — come together to envision the future collaboratively.
This process goes beyond a single workshop: it transforms organizational culture, enhances the quality of decision-making, and cultivates a foundation for continuous innovation.
BOEL Inc.’s Strengths
Since its founding in 2010, BOEL Inc. has supported the branding of numerous companies. What we have focused on is not simply providing design or creative output, but thinking together about how to envision the future and communicate it to society, while staying close to each company’s management challenges. Our strength lies in balancing a strategic perspective with creative output to address the concerns and uncertainties that executives face about the future.
In particular, we are highly regarded for our ability to communicate a brand’s vision to society, backed not only by our expertise in creating striking, transparent images through photography and video, but also by our experience working alongside diverse companies—from foreign multinationals and major domestic corporations to startups and regional businesses.
Leveraging this knowledge and experience, we now propose a model for branding that is essential in today’s challenging times. By understanding human psychology and desires from multiple angles, and having our tech and creative teams work in close collaboration, we design strategies and expressions in an integrated manner. The resulting brand experiences connect people and companies at a fundamental level, creating new frameworks of value for society.
