Customer Based Business Strategy

Start Date: Jul 1, 2019 End Date: Jul 3, 2019
Last Date for Application: June 17, 2019 Last Date for Early Bird: June 10, 2019
Programme Fee: 115000 INR

Plus, GST

Early Bird Fee: 106950 INR

Plus, GST

Today’s domestic business environment is tough and uncertain. Macro economic factors affect demand, and costs; Competitors, both traditional and new age, are disrupting the market, regulators are constantly making new rules of the game and customer expectations are being shaped and reshaped by the choices available to them as well as by their life journeys. 

In order to to achieve stability and meet growth and profitability aspirations in this environment, companies need to have an effective business strategy i.e. a well deliberated choice of paths to get to where they need or want to, and the capability  to walk down those paths.

At the heart of an effective business strategy is a clear business-market game, a set of integrated and coherent choices of "Where the business wants to play" in the market (choices of which parts of the market to compete in and with what intensity), "How it wants to play" (how to  develop winning value proposition taking into account the competitive advantages and dis-advantages the company has) and "When to play what game" (sequencing or staging of strategic moves)and to  ensure that all the other elements of the business strategy are aligned.

Companies who do not have a clear business-market game respond to every disruption individually and "follow the market" ending up with pulling themselves in many different directions and incurring increased costs of complexity that eat into profitability.

The objective of this programme is to enable business leaders develop and execute  a clear and winning business-market game, to keep their businesses healthy by embedding customer centricity into the business strategy development process based on the philosophy;

"The heart of strategy is not about beating the competitor but about creating value for the customer" (Kenichi Ohmae), and by creating value for the customer, generating wealth for the business".

Takeaways from this Programme

Conceptual clarity

  • Understanding "disruption" and increased competition in terms of changes in customer behaviour, customer-demand structure and implications for business.
  • Understanding what customer centricity really is and how customer centricty in developing business strategy is different from downstream execution of functional marketing strategy and sales activity.
  • Understanding the idea of Customer Based Business Strategy , its advantages and differences compared to other supply side or microeconomic strategy development frameworks
  • Understanding the concept of the business-market game, its link with business strategy and frameworks.

Frameworks , tools and methodologies for developing a company's business-market game.

  • Customer based business strategy and business - market game frameworks.
  • Methodologies to read external changes , to see how the future will unfold and to assess the impact of these changes on  customers and implications for business strategy.
  • Methodologies to embed customer centricity into the entire business strategy development process itself; how to make existing business strategy development processes  / frameworks used by companies more customer centred.
  • How to do Customer based business - market segmentation, how to develop customer perceived value advantage over competition.
  • CXOs and CMOs, who participate at senior levels in driving the strategy and business planning exercises.
  • Heads of business units In B2B as well as B2C organizations. They would benefit more from the programme by sponsoring a team of top and senior executives.
  • Faculty led interactive sessions to introduce and explain concepts, tools and frameworks.
  • Case study discussions across sectors and contexts to deepen the learning through peer discussion, and learning from across industries and companies.
  • Group work for active peer learning by participants to apply the concepts and frameworks, etc., with, and critique and support by faculty.


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