Quantum Originals Cracking Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is a critical and important market for most companies
However, it is also the market that is the most mysterious
TAMIL Strategies that work in other parts of India often fail in Tamil Nadu NADU as an object of The State requires tailormade solutions for true connect and study? success
Many marketers seek to understand the elusive Myth of Tamil Nadu Quantum Originals Cracking Tamil Nadu
Have you wondered… Did you know… Quantum Originals Cracking Tamil Nadu
M.G.R. was born in Kandy, Ceylon, to Melakkath Gopalan Menon and Maruthur Satyabhama from Palakkad, Tamil Nadu is in the modern-day state largely seen as a of Kerala #1 Protectionist State. Then why are some of the biggest icons of Tamil Nadu not Tamilians? Rajinikanth was born in Karnataka, India. He was the fourth child to his parents Ramabai and Ramoji Rao Gaekwad. His original name was Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Shivaji Rao Gaekwad. also called M.S. Dhoni, was born in Ranchi, Bihar [now Jharkhand] to Paan Singh & Devki Dhoni Quantum Originals Cracking Tamil Nadu
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To solve these and many other puzzles that keep Quantum and marketers awake at night, we embarked on a journey to crack Tamil Nadu We bring you the Second Edition of Quantum Originals: Cracking Tamil Nadu Quantum Originals Cracking Tamil Nadu
Quantum’s Point of View
We believe that at the root of every culture is a cultural DNA (or the Culture Gene as we call it).
We have identified these defining codes of Tamil Culture as well as emerging manifestation Quantum Originals Cracking Tamil Nadu
The Method of Study 12
QCS used its CULTURE PULSE model to understand Tamil Nadu
Culture Pulse is a PROPRIETARY PREDICTIVE MODEL that identifies how the defining Baseline / Foundational Culture Codes of a nation, state and/or category - are changing below the surface of consumer behaviour and perceptions
These code changes are created by the code’s interaction with global events, forces and trends Quantum Originals Cracking Tamil Nadu THE MODEL Collision or interaction THEORY: A brief overview of the A Culture Code is a Global and local governing principles of cluster of related human phenomena and macro the model values, repeating forces (that often carry behaviour patterns or their own values and watershed events seen Baseline/Foundational Modern meaning systems) in a culture. Tamil Nadu Culture Stimulus/Macro become the ‘modern These codes come Codes Forces stimulus’ that together to form the continuously collides with fundamental meaning Tamil Nadu’s foundational system of a culture culture codes
The Baseline code is forced to shift/evolve as Modern Expressions of a result of the the shifting Culture interaction with the Codes in Tamil Nadu These shifts manifest as We isolate the key new macro forces behaviour, perception, marketing implications mood and appearance emerging from the shifts in trends amongst people the Culture Code for Tamil Nadu Quantum Originals Cracking Tamil Nadu
METHODOLOGY: The various information streams analyzed Broadly, the Culture Pulse Model uses the following knowledge & information streams to arrive at code shifts:
Modern Socio-Cultural & Cutting edge/Viral digital content Political history – key value that is manifesting as UGC (user system defining events in the generated content) in the culture culture/nation Real time local cultural Popular media patterns and phenomena that occupies mind themes that have shaped the Underlying Contemporary and conversation space across the modern culture/nation Cultural Truth Colliding Nation at present Influences Ancient historical and Big global phenomena that have religious values that dominate permeated present day ideas and in the culture and define its behaviour. E.g.: Uber, Netflix, ISIS, moral behaviour Refugee Crisis, Trump, Climate Change, North Korea, ME TOO etc Behaviour and sentiment Key cultural shifts underway and patterns that seem to recur Cutting edge ideas emerging ideas in this culture over time their TREND manifestations in and innovations (global + local) the given market Quantum Originals Cracking Tamil Nadu
Basis this, we arrived at the 7 Culture Super Codes of Tamil Nadu Quantum Originals Cracking Tamil Nadu
THE 7 CULTURE SUPER CODES OF TAMIL NADU
CODE #1: CODE #2: CODE #3: CODE #4: CODE #5: CODE #6: INSULARITY CUSTODIANSHIP HEROISM CODE #7: UNDERDOGISM RATIONALISM PATRIARCHAL OF TAMIL DEVOTION CONTROL Quantum Originals Cracking Tamil Nadu
a Code genesis- why it came to be
b Historical manifestations
Took each c Macro forces that are influencing this code code and understood it in detail d Modern/ emergent manifestations
e Key human and societal tensions
Conclusion: Mapping of TN vs other Inspirations and case studies both from TN as cultures on a cultural f well as elsewhere of brands tapping into these codes via advertising and marketing strategies map with a distinct macro direction for tapping into the TN g Brand design principles to leverage this code consumers Quantum Originals Cracking Tamil Nadu
DATA SOURCES
Interviews with internal Over 12,500 social media social scientists that have posts, images, movies and done intensive work in TN A mining of seminal videos have been and have a cumulative literature on Tamil culture. referenced towards this experience over 200 years analysis. in the discipline Quantum Originals Cracking Tamil Nadu
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