Authors:
Marry Murambi,Dr Chipo Mutongi,Dr Theo Tsokota,Learnmore Mutandwa,Dr Lawrence Poperwi,DOI NO:
https://doi.org/10.26782/jmcms.2025.10.00002Keywords:
Brand resilience,Cooperation,Endurance,Sustainability,Termites,Abstract
In today's volatile business environment, brand resilience is crucial for survival. Drawing inspiration from the resilient termite mounds found in Africa, this paper proposes a Termite Framework for building sustainable brand resilience. The framework consists of five pillars: Resilience, Adaptation, Cooperation, Resourcefulness, and Endurance (RACRE). Most brands in Africa fade and disappear in the market within a short period of time. It is with great concern that Africa needs to build brand resilience to meet globalisation changes for sustainability. The environment is DVUCADD, meaning it is dynamic, volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, diverse, and disruptive. There is an imminent need for brand resilience. This study proposed a model framework focusing on termite behaviour. Resilient brands are adaptive, change direction, take knocks and setbacks, and come back stronger. These brands can easily extend to new products, take their customers with them, and take on new business models. Main characteristics of resilient brands are setting goals and priorities, having a strategy, working together, uncovering new threats proactively, regrouping, and retesting. In retesting and regrouping, resilient brands protect their customers, reputation, and revenue, continually refining their tactics. In this sense, they communicate failures and successes to team members to reevaluate their methodology until the desired results are achieved. These brand resilience characteristics match the life and behaviour of termites. Termites go through a cycle like that of an organisation. Termites are flexible, which is the major characteristic of resilient brands. Agility is the major element in building resilient brands. Termites have teamwork through which they complement each other’s strengths and complement each other’s weaknesses without discrimination. Termite mounds reveal residence, cooperation, resourcefulness, and endurance. We explore each pillar's application in the African context, using observation and literature sources. It is with great emphasis that Africa builds resilient nations, organisations, products and services for continental sustainability in line with economic, social, technological, and ecological aspects, like the termite resilience and cooperation.Refference:
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