Seth Godin: les règles des noms d’entreprise
Seth explique comment les pratiques de nommage de nos chères sociétés ont évolué:
A long time ago, the goal of a name was to capture the essence of your positioning. […] International Business Machines and Shredded Wheat were good efforts at this approach.It quickly became clear, though, that descriptive names were too generic, so the goal was to coin a defensible word that could acquire secondary meaning and that you could own for the ages. That’s why “Jet Blue” is a much better name than “Southwest” and why “Starbucks” is so much better than “Dunkin Donuts”.
Comme d’habitude, l’article se termine par quelques conseils simples et efficaces pour trouver le nom qu’il faut.

