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We passionately power the future of our clients through identifying, exploring and developing opportunities for
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Always from a market and customer perspective, while supporting and developing our clients’ teams on the way.
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European Market Intelligence Platform
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Need: • Build up of European Market Intelligence Platform to support strategy and operations. • Create a fact based and outside-in approach to business.
Approach: • Pre study with potential users across organization to frame scope and needs vs strategy. • Identifying and evaluating potential sources and content. • Identifying and evaluating suitable IT solutions. • Designing architecture fit to scope and needs. • Build up of relevant reports and content base. • Build up of online user interface in close cooperation with internal team (i.e. marketing &
finance). • Training and coaching of relevant team members. Key client benefit: • Ability to easily access relevant market intelligence across the organization for informed
decisions regarding business strategy, investments, innovation and sales and marketing activities.
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Preparation of Group Market Review Need: • Process for annual Group Market Review – preparation and alignment. • Input to coming Group Market Review: – Macro economic indicators globally (3 year forecast). – Market development in 20 different industries globally (3 year forecast).
Approach: • Upfront meeting with CEO, CMO and project office. • Project starting out with internal interviews to frame scope and understand needs. • Development of process for yearly Market Review, involving and supporting regional teams
around the globe in the market update exercise. • Identification and analysis of relevant secondary data. • Building reports and documentation. • Set up of SharePoint solution and development of team training material. • Coaching and supporting core team. Key client benefit: • Ability to make informed decisions regarding business strategy and investments based on well
informed market development estimates on a global and regional basis.
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Mapping of Distribution Landscape Need: • Study of market potential, purchasing behaviour and distribution landscape in new
geographic market.
Approach: • Desk research, including macro economics, industry statistics, trade associations and more. • 20 in depth interviews with end-users on site, incl photo documentation. • Analysis and summary of results. • Presentation together with local representative online to bring results alive. Key client benefit: • Fast confirmation of market potential. • Creating understanding of distribution landscape and local purchasing behaviour, as well as
key players in the market.
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Customer Insight and Journey Mapping
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Need: • Understanding the customer perspective, customer journey and key interaction points as part
of a key strategy and change project.
Approach: • Four days of co-riding with sales representatives in two countries. • 12 in depth interviews with customers in three countries. • 16 in depth front line employee interviews in three countries. • Two days of co-listening to customer calls in customer service. • Planning, organization and facilitation of full day Customer Journey workshop with frontline
employees from across organization. • Analyzing outcome of interviews and and documenting workshop. • Presenting results to project team, for next steps. Key client benefit: • Creating understanding of the customer perspective, the customer journey and key interaction
points relevant to prioritized strategy and change project.
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Segmentation and targeting workshop
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Need: • Identification of target segments to focus resources towards the most attractive and relevant
segments in the market.
Approach: • Meeting with BA Heads to discuss approach. • Identification of relevant market size. • Mapping of market segments. • Workshop with team to identify segment attractiveness and potential vs offering. Key Client Benefit: • Identification of target segments with best fit vs offering.
Segment customers (existing and
potential)
Choose target segments
Create value proposition
for each target segment
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Value Proposition Design Need: • Create relevant and competitive value propositions for target segments. Approach: • Value Proposition Canvas workshop for assumption building. • Design and implementation of Customer Safari for customer understanding and insights. • Adjustments of Value Proposition Canvas after Customer Safari. Key client benefit: • Understanding customer perspective. • Identification of relevant customer jobs, pains and gains. • Refining current Value Propositions and identifying new, customer based innovation
opportunities.
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Segment customers (existing and
potential)
Choose target segments
Create value proposition
for each target segment
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Category Strategy Development
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Need: • Group decision to establish and review three year category plans, aiming at increased
innovativeness and competitiveness, and part of the new, yearly management calendar. Approach: • Upfront meeting with CEO and CMO to understand needs and challenges. • Creation of relevant PPT template for common approach across Group. • One-to-one coaching (online) with key stakeholders during the strategy development process. • Planning and facilitation of Group Product Council with key stakeholders from Group
Management and Group Marketing. Key Client Benefit: • Increasing the quality of the category plans, while ensuring support for key stakeholders and
reaching a tight deadline.
Inquentia CaseBook Strategy project for increased Customer Orientation
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Need: • Create understanding of customer needs and feed back in a Group strategy project for
increased customer orientation.
Approach: • Part of the core strategy team, representing the customer perspective: – Pre study with frontline employees and customers in three key markets across Europe to
frame scope and needs, and develop testable hypothesis. – Internal Customer Journey workshop and documentation. – International survey to test developed hypothesis and evaluate customer satisfaction.
Cooperation with leading international academic expert on Customer Satisfaction for analysis, conclusions and recommendations.
– Development of supporting Customer Feed Back strategy.
Key client benefit: • Clear understanding of relevant customer needs. • Results used as framework for the continued strategy development activities.
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Business Strategy Development
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Need: • Need of a project leader to manage and facilitate the yearly business strategy update. Approach: • Upfront meeting to discuss needs and set up with CEO and management team. • Set up and coordination of internal project team. • Project planning with milestones and deadline. • Facilitating and coordinating internal and external analysis. • Facilitating work meetings. • Introducing relevant frameworks and templates. • Coordinating key stakeholders. • Coordination and facilitation of final presentation. Key Client Benefit: • Management team working effectively with focus on the context and content of the strategy,
rather than having to focus on the planning and facilitation of the strategy process.
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Project visualization supporting change Need: • Creating local understanding of the customer perspective, the customer journey and key
interaction points for a major change project – in three key languages.
Approach: • Customer and front line employee interviews. • Customer Journey Workshop. • Workshop documented by live sketcher. • Production of animation and film, translated into three languages.
Key client benefit: • Films used in meetings with managers and teams, to convey the same message and
understanding of customer needs throughout the organization. • Supporting understanding, buy in and actual change.
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Build up of Marketing Academy Need: • Group marketing organizations lacking common language, framework and tools. • Group decision to establish a Marketing Academy.
Approach: • Development of customized, modular training approach in four steps (NEED, KNOW, WANT,
BUY) fit to company needs. • Design and implementation of the first module (NEED) with focus on Market Intelligence,
Customer Insight and Value Proposition Design. Key Client Benefit: • Customized solution fit to company needs. • Increasing marketing competence across the organization – creating a common language,
framework and toolbox.
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Benchmark of European Marketing Organizations
Need: • Need of benchmarks regarding the organization and roles marketing (regionally and
locally). To be used as input to a restructuring effort, in search for an effective and efficient marketing approach in Europe.
Approach: • Personal interviews with CMOs from large, market leading companies across different
industries in Europe. • To get access to this very busy target group, we designed a win-win setup: we collected the
information, created the final report and shared the key results with the client as well as with all respondents.
Key Client Benefit: • Created relevant benchmarks from different industries as input to organizational change
for the relevant client.
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