
Reimagining Go-to-Market Strategies After the Pandemic
Emerging-market companies that sell through retailers must respond to evolving customer needs, navigate a new landscape, and lower their costs.
In emerging economies, the route to market is complicated by limited data and fragmented distribution. BCG’s next-generation go-to-market approach helps companies unlock profitable growth through a digitally enabled transformation of their sales and distribution capabilities.
Today, as in earlier economic downturns, companies’ sales and distribution activities are being squeezed at both the top and bottom lines. And across emerging markets, these pressures are intensified by the complexities that confound go-to-market strategies there:
BCG enables our clients to surmount go-to-market challenges by harnessing our deep local expertise and diverse global teams to drive sustainable business impact.
We help companies reimagine their go-to-market plans and reinvigorate their performance by embracing an integrated approach across the sales and distribution landscape.
BCG brings a rich arsenal of analytical tools, proprietary databases, and playbooks to help our clients win in emerging markets:
Our proprietary digital applications and analytical solutions across the sales and distribution landscape can be customized and prototyped rapidly.
This toolkit comprises more than 50 use cases spanning 10 digital themes and multiple industries. We help companies understand their starting position and estimate the size of the prize.
BCG has compiled a robust database of more than 60,000 retail outlets and 1,500 distributors across more than 10 categories. For top cities, the database provides details on retailer and distributor demographics, business performance, revenue size, and infrastructure.
We have forged partnerships with more than 25 go-to-market startups that deliver sales process intelligence, capability building, pricing, channel finance support, and influencer management.
We have developed a comprehensive playbook that captures detailed knowledge and best practices in go-to-market strategy from more than 50 companies across 10 broad and 50 specific levers.
We deploy innovative techniques to drive capability building in go-to-market execution through immersion sessions, gamification, coaching bootcamps, and robust performance management.
Select examples of our go-to-market strategy consulting include:
Emerging-market companies that sell through retailers must respond to evolving customer needs, navigate a new landscape, and lower their costs.
Several trends we identified have endured, while important and potentially lasting shifts in consumer thinking and behavior are also becoming apparent.
The tradeoff between physical and economic well-being is constantly evolving and requires continual reassessment of policy.