A Rapid Strategy Stress Test to Accelerate a Go-to-Market Strategy for Africa
We helped a global high-speed connectivity leader re-prioritise their strategy
We were approached by a global networking systems, services, and software company that specialises in optical and routing solutions. Their technology helps carriers, enterprises, and governments build more efficient and scalable networks, particularly for high-bandwidth applications like 5G, cloud computing, and AI-driven networking.
Africa is a key strategic market for this client. They are also playing an active role in advancing outlined 5G technology on the continent, emphasising a focus on routing and switching aggregation components, network slicing, and monetisation.
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The
Opportunity
The client engaged Cambridge MC to provide external insight and support to augment and accelerate the progress of their Go-to-Market plans for Africa. We proposed our in-house rapid Strategy Stress Test that delivers key insights across areas of your strategy using a 1–5 health-scoring matrix.
The client's aim is to grow market share in the region with a precisely focussed strategy that targets their market with key propositions and solutions. We were engaged to review this strategy and their plans for the region, identifying critical opportunities and gaps with a quick turnaround.
Approach
We used our Rapid Strategy Stress Test methodology which provides:
- Target geographies, opportunities, and partners for resource effectiveness and success maximisation
- Assessment of client's Go-to-Market Strategy including identification and testing of key assumptions
- Identification of new opportunities and any gaps in the strategy
- Recommendations on how best to capitalise on the market and accelerate their route to success
This included carrying out target addressable and client-addressable market sizing by country for the Optical, Data Centre Interconnect, Routing and Switching portfolios; competitor market share analysis; analysis of current and planned data centre build in the target countries; future trend analysis, including Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental trends by country.
We put their GtM strategy and plans through our Stress Test framework, scoring capabilities against best-in-class – across 11 parameters such as Market Potential, Adaptability to Local Needs, Pricing and Marketing & Demand Generation. Recommendations were made against each of the 11 areas relating to opportunities to accelerate their GtM strategy.
In order to support effective targeting of resources into key countries, we developed a country prioritisation framework across 15 parameters, such as GDP growth, energy supply, stability of regulatory environment, and ease of doing business. This quantitative assessment was supplemented with the real world experience of our Africa experts.
The Team
Mauro Mortali
Managing Partner - Strategy, Transformation and Change
Alex Milson
Strategy
David Jones
Strategy
Outcomes & Results
A number of outcomes were discussed with the client and are currently being actioned.
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