13.5.2015 Moving Brands

Tiko: Bringing clarity and purpose.


Tiko is a leading connected home device – a smart grid system that connects to a user’s home electricity supply. Moving Brands worked with Tiko founders to bring clarity, consensus and purpose to this new business.

 

Tiko is provided by Swisscom Energy Solutions – a partnership between Swisscom and RePower, an international energy utility business. This relationship, as well as Swisscom’s entry to the energy sector, needed to be carefully considered and communicated.

 

Connected home devices remain unchartered territory for many people. As one of the first of its kind in Europe, it was vital to communicate Tiko’s offer in a clear, compelling way. Tiko’s competitors in the energy sector were almost universally bland, with an identikit approach to brand and communications. Our aim was to create and position Tiko as the energy product consumers wanted to own.

 

To prioritise and clarify Tiko’s value, we asked stakeholders how they’d communicate the product to a seven year old – the range of responses was testament to the products complex, multi-layered proposition. In workshops with stakeholders, we helped to define the Tiko service proposition, clarify its users and create notional user journeys.

 

We named the service Tiko, defined the brand story as ‘Efficiency for good’ and created an identity system that both product owners – Swisscom and RePower – were excited to employ. The strong mark and graphic and illustration language help Tiko connect with users in a human way, and allow for a range of expression, both in the immediate launch phase and as the product progresses to meet longer term ambitions.

 

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