Market opportunity - identification, research and landscape

Explore new markets

Market Opportunity
Science & Technology
Innovation Process

Oakland's Market Opportunity services enable organisations to identify and assess the potential value of new opportunities within and between different industry sectors and geographies.

Benefits include:

  • Market identification: Identification of new markets for technology capabilities
  • Market landscaping to identify zones of opportunity
  • Market insight studies to define unfulfilled market needs
  • Identification of potential disruptive product opportunities
  • Development and evaluation of business propositions
  • Stakeholder surveys: Including Partner partner and competitor profiling.

Through our market research we identify and build up a sound base of intelligence about market demand, market environment, market value and the requirements for market entry. Our findings are augmented by information from market reports, trade and technical press and, most importantly, directly from key players and stakeholders, customers and influencers.

By applying our own market research methodologies and recognised industry tools to interpret the information, we give an objective assessment on the market opportunities supported by robust evidence.

Market identification and opportunity analysis

Projects to identify and evaluate new market opportunities are driven by a wide variety of factors, such as:

  • The desire to find and appraise opportunities for market entry in target segments
  • The need to source new revenue streams for existing technologies and capabilities
  • The quest for evidence to assist decision-making.

New market identification

Often an organisation may know that they want to break into a market area but be uncertain about the detail or focus of the business proposition. As a first step, Oakland undertakes a broad scoping analysis of the overall market landscape, looking at factors such as:

  • New revenue streams for technology
  • White space opportunities in target markets
  • Extreme user innovations for mainstream markets
  • Potential partners and suppliers for market entry.

Market and stakeholder surveys

We use many varied methods to assess market performance and identify opportunities for growth through in-depth analysis of factors including:

  • Customer satisfaction
  • Market needs that are not being met
  • Market perceptions
  • Competitive positioning.

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