Functional Departments

Strategy

Business Development

Strategic Marketing

  • Actionable market segmentation
  • Size
  • Needs
  • (Wants)
  • Value proposition
  • Messaging for advertising, PR, other MarCom
  • Product requirements for R&D

Research & Development

  • Hypothesis testing
  • Fresh, experienced eyes
  • Alternative methods
  • Other firms and industries
  • Statistics (practical)

Value as outsider

  • Demand for blinding
  • Challenge sacred cows
  • See the forest, not the tress