Growth Insights for CEOs

Turning Customer Insight into Customer Value
Executive Takeaways
- Your next major deal may begin with a customer problem you have yet to uncover.
- Deep customer insight can open doors to executives—and accounts—competitors already serve.
- The greatest opportunities emerge when insight meets distinctive expertise and solutions.
- Turning these opportunities into growth requires building organizational capability.
This blog is part of Chief Outsiders’ New Growth Imperative series, designed to help CEOs and leadership teams engage executive decision-makers at targeted strategic accounts by turning deep insights into compelling customer value.
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Mon, Sep 26, 2011 — Every company must develop a strategic direction that best fits its capabilities and its standing in its marketplace. Most business categories fall into similar market share patterns. There are three major players who, combined, have roughly 70-90% of the market. Then you have a group of small savvy specialists that have identified an underserved audience within the market. These tend to be businesses that succeed based on lower volumes, by definition, but much higher margins. In general, they tend to have no more than 5% of the market each. And, finally, you have the remaining companies in the category that live on the crumbs that are left over.